for her instrument (BWV1001-1006) when he was in prison for a month in 1717 after falling out with his employer at Weimar over his projected move to Coethen. This is a delightful idea. After all, there is nothing more solo than a cell. Miss Huggett plays the entire cycle on this excellent album in the alternating order prescribed by the composer. She is an authenticist and plays a gut-strung baroque violin built by Amati in 1618. Some will prefer the silky, sustained tone of later Romantic instruments but Huggett's thirsty, unrepentant tone pleads the sober music through until the last Partita arrives to unlock the door with the liberating key of E major. The debate is two-sided. The sonatas are logic--they all have fugal second movements; the partitas are passion--they are dance suites. Nothing is better argued than the exhaustive 12-minute fugue in the third Sonata in C major. Nothing reaches the heart more than the massive "Ciaconna" in the second Partita in D minor. It has been diminished over the years by pianists' and others' attempts to reinvent it; Huggett's original instrument version cannot be gainsaid. --Rick Jones
for her instrument (BWV1001-1006) when he was in prison for a month in 1717 after falling out with his employer at Weimar over his projected move to Coethen. This is a delightful idea. After all, there is nothing more solo than a cell. Miss Huggett plays the entire cycle on this excellent album in the alternating order prescribed by the composer. She is an authenticist and plays a gut-strung baroque violin built by Amati in 1618. Some will prefer the silky, sustained tone of later Romantic instruments but Huggett's thirsty, unrepentant tone pleads the sober music through until the last Partita arrives to unlock the door with the liberating key of E major. The debate is two-sided. The sonatas are logic--they all have fugal second movements; the partitas are passion--they are dance suites. Nothing is better argued than the exhaustive 12-minute fugue in the third Sonata in C major. Nothing reaches the heart more than the massive "Ciaconna" in the second Partita in D minor. It has been diminished over the years by pianists' and others' attempts to reinvent it; Huggett's original instrument version cannot be gainsaid. --Rick Jones
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV1001-06
Main specs
Title: Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV1001-06
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Main Performer: Christian Tetzlaff (Violin)
Date of Release: 01/05/2007
Label / Distributor: Hänssler / Metronome
Pieces in Set: 2
Running Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Genre(s): Instrumental
Stereo: Stereo
SPAR Code: DDD
EAN: 4010276018643
Work 1
Work Title: (3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, BWV1001-06
Excerpt(s): 1. Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001 2. Adagio; Fuga; Siciliano; Presto 3. Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV1002 4. Allemande; Double I; Courante; Double II; Sarabande; Double III; Tempo di Bourrée; Double IV 5. Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003 6. Grave; Fuga; Andante; Allegro 7. Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004 8. Allemande; Courante; Sarabande; Gigue; Chaconne 9. Sonata No. 3 in C, BWV1005 10. Adagio; Fuga; Largo; Allegro assai 11. Partita No. 3 in E, BWV1006 12. Preludio; Loure; Gavotte en rondeau; Menuett I; Menuett II; Bourrée; Gigue 13. 4e
Advantages: Wonderful transcriptions of JS Bach's majestic music; sensitive, tender, vivacious, effortless and fluid playing. Disadvantages: Nil.
...Variata in A Minor (Italian Variations) BWV 989
7 Gigue from ViolinPartita no 3. BWV1006
Trio Sonata in C Major BWV 529
8 Allegro
9 Largo
10 Allegro
Concerto in C minor (after Marcello) BWV 974:
11 Allegro
12 Largo
13 Presto
14 Bist du bei mir (from Anna Magdalena Notebook BWV 508)
Concerto in A major (transposed to C Major) BWV 1055:
15 Allegro
16 Larghetto
17 Allegro ma non tanto
18 Badinerie from Orchestral Suite no.2 BWV 1067
19 Agnus Dei from Mass in B minor BWV 232
Performers:
Alison Balsom (trumpets), Colm Carey (organ), Alina Ibragimova (violin), Alistair Ross (harpsichord & chamber organ), Mark Caudle (viola da gamba)
Total running time: 71' 31"
List Price:
$16.98
GBP13.99
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Advantages: Brilliant, stirring, excitingly unpredictable, fresh performance; "genius" is not hyperbole in Argerich's case. Disadvantages: Reflecting its LP origins, the CD lasts only 50' 16"!
Advantages: Thrilling, daredevil chamber music performances from the legendary Martha Argerich and partner-in-crime Gidon Kremer. Disadvantages: Violinist Kremer occasionally on the mannered, spastic side; only forty-three minutes of music.
...thorough introduction to Martha Argerich, you may want to read my other post (or you may not!):
http://www.ciao.co.uk/BachKeyboardWorksReview5359921
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CD Notes:
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770 - 1827)
Sonata for Piano and Violin no. 4 in A minor, op. 23
1. (1) Presto 6’56
2. (2) Andante scherzoso più Allegretto 7’20
3. (3) Allegro molto 5’15
Sonata for Piano and Violin no. 5 in F major, op. 24 "Frühlings-Sonate" ["Spring"]
4. (1) Allegro 9’41
5. (2) Adagio molto espressivo 6’02
6. (3) Scherzo. Allegro molto 1’19
7. (4) Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo 6’34
MARTHA ARGERICH, Piano
GIDON KREMER, Violin
Deutsche Grammophon
(P) 1987 43’23
417 787-2
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(Performances for comparison:)
From:
BEETHOVEN
The ViolinSonatas
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER
LAMBERT ORKIS
Compact Disc 2
Sonatas op. 23 & op. 24
"Spring Sonata...
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