Discography

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Pure Bach

Accordion Solo (2021)

This recording was made after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. After a series of operations and a fearful time in which I fell silent, thanks to Johann Sebastian Bach’s music I found my way back to my instrument and back to living my life. I would like to dedicate it to the doctors who have cared for me and to women who are affected by breast cancer. I want to encourage them and give them the strength this music gives and gave me during my ordeal.

"She has freed the good old hand organ from the image of the bourgeois and made it accessible to great European music - when she is not making an excursion to Astor Piazzolla or jazz."

– Siegfried Schibli, MusikTipp

"She performs the Prelude and Fugue BWV 847, the Italian Concerto, the French Suites Nos. 2 and 5 and the Partita BWV 825, works for harpsichord or clavichord, on the accordion. Will it go well? It goes brilliantly!"

– Sabine Näher, Concerti

"...She plays the accordion in such a way that all apparent contradictions between its archaic connotation as a "folk instrument" and its almost limitless possibilities for shaping the highest art music dissolve."

– Stefan Pieper, Klassik heute

Fascinating, with which incredible range of tempo variations, agogic rollercoaster rides and dynamically wide gradations Viviane Chassot plays Bach on her accordion.

– Reinmar Wagner, Musik&Theater issue 11/21

“What an opening! The melody is very familiar, but even Bach freaks have never heard it this way before: with so many layers, subtle dynamic shadings and brimming over with vitality.”

– Deutschlandfunk

“Viviane Chassot not only performs the music of Johann Sebastian Bach phenomenally well, she narrates it.”

Programmzeitung

“Works for harpsichord by Bach, the great master of the Baroque, played on the button accordion? Viviane Chassot gives a convincing demonstration of how well this works.”

Badische Zeitung

“Perfect, highly developed technique or complete mastery of the instrument are not enough for what Viviane Chassot magically entices from her accordion in these Bach arrangements.”

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