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“The six Partitas are virtually a compendium of Bach's keyboard styles, with toccatas and French overtures, fugues and fantasies and all manner of dances. Trevor Pinnock rises to a new level of mastery in his new recording of them. We all know about the brilliance of his fingerwork and his beautifully sprung, ebullient rhythms; but here he goes further, showing a true grandeur of manner that embraces Bach at his most serious and pensive, his most learned, and – above all – his most vividly rhetorical.
Pinnock takes his time over the music: these are measured readings of the partitas, thought through, viewed whole. The natural and spontaneous musicianship of old is still there, but now it's given extra depth and meaning through the carefully judged articulation, JS Bach Instrumental the tiny moments of hesitation, all within a fluent larger rhythm, that lend extra point and shape to a phrase, a group of phrases, an entire musical paragraph.
The warm, rather resonant recording beautifully captures the rich sound of his instrument – a David Way copy from 1983 of a Hemsch original – as well as the detail of his playing. There could hardly have been a happier return to the recording studio for Pinnock than this fine set.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $21.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Hansjorg Albrecht (organ) These works are perfomed on the Metzler organ in the church of St. Cyriakus, Krefeld-Hüls.The organist Hansjörg Albrecht regards this as “the instrument closest to Bach”. He hopes that listeners will hear these works with “new ears”. | | | (also available to download from $21.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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The “Clavierübung” (keyboard practice) … composed for Music-Lovers for the refreshment of their Spirits” - thus the complete edition of the six “Partitas” from 1731, was published by Bach at his own expense to establish as a keyboard composer. It is the culmination of the traditional suite with it’s canon of various dances by Italian and French models and transcends them becoming a German, contrapuntally reflected form. Chen plays two movements after the respective sarabandes (Partitas IV and VI). This is based on the research of Kenneth Gilbert, who argued that the previous reverse order has been practised due to printing at that time having regard to turning the pages. Pi-hsien Chen was born in Taiwan and studied with Hans Leygraf at the Musikhochschule Hannover, going on to take master classes with Tatjana Nikolajewa, Geza Anda, Wilhelm Kempff and Claudio Arrau. She won the first prize of the ARD-International-Piano-competition in Munich at the age of 21, later also of the Schoenberg in Rotterdam and of the Bach-Competition in Washington. She has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Zürich Tonhalle-Orchestra and almost all German Radio-Symphony-Orchestras. Bernard Haitink, Paul Sacher, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowsky, Hans Zender and Peter Eötvös are amongst the conductors she has performed with. | | | (also available to download from $21.50) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Anthony Newman (harpsichord) | |
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Eleonore Buhler-Kestler (harpsichord) | |
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| |  | Miku Nishimoto-Neubert plays Bach
Miku Nishimoto-Neubert (piano) | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Irma Issakadze made her debut on OehmsClassics with a highly praised recording of the Goldberg Variations (OC 628). Here she continues her exploration of the works of Bach with his immensely successful Six Partitas. Bach’s first biographer Forkel wrote “This work caused a great sensation in the musical world….no-one had ever seen or heard such superb compositions for keyboard before.” | | | (also available to download from $21.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Bach: Partitas Nos. 4 & 6
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Pascal Dubreuil (harpsichord) When first published these Partitas were highly criticized. Some thought them to difficult to play but those musicians who did manage to overcome the technical difficulties grew to admire them and so promote these now very familiar compositions. French harpsichordist Pascal Dubreuil overcomes all the demands Bach has set for the harpsichordist and manages to sets a new benchmark in the interpretation of this oeuvre. | | Ramée - RAM0804 (CD - 2 discs) Normally: $26.25 Special: $20.21 |
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Gramophone Awards 2001