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. T...
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. T...
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
Producer: Emilia Benjamin and Sarah Cunningham (Partita No 2)
EAN: 724354520525
Catalogue Number: 545205
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
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Genre: Instrumental
Date Written: 1720
Date Recorded: 1995
Main Performer: Monica Huggett (Violin)
Opera Part(s): Monica Huggett
Location of Work Recording: The Warehouse, Theed St,London & St Pauls Church, Harefield
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: 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 Violin Partita 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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'Veliko crno more, a u njemu…Brod' / Ivana Ognjanovic
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