IMAGINE is the first Warner Classics release from the dynamic young French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, who sees it as "an exploration of all the possibilities that lie in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and in the harpsichord." Praised by radio station France Musique for his "maturity, fabulous touch and originality," the multi-talented Rondeau feels that, as a young musician today, he has "an incredible opportunity to break out of the concert hall and meet the world."
Born in 1991, Rondeau is a musician with impeccable credentials in his instrument - and he has many prizes to prove it - but, with his multiple talents and interests, he defies simple categorization: he is also a musicologist and is trained as an organist and a choral conductor, while as a pianist he is co-founder of a group called Note Forget - The Project that performs his jazz compositions.
IMAGINE features one of Bach's most celebrated harpsichord works, the Italian Concerto BWV 971, as well as transcriptions of music that the composer conceived for other instruments: the violin, the lute and the flute.