Six Partitas

Product Details

Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0034571171913
Label : Hyperion
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1998-09-01
Running Time : 143minutes
UPC : 034571171913

ASIN : B000003012

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major, BWV 825: Praeludium
2. Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major, BWV 825: Allemande
3. Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major, BWV 825: Corrente
4. Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major, BWV 825: Sarabande
5. Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major, BWV 825: Menuet I - Menuet II - Menuet I da capo
6. Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major, BWV 825: Giga
7. Partita No. 2 In C Minor, BWV 826: Sinfonia: Grave adagio - Andante - Allegro
8. Partita No. 2 In C Minor, BWV 826: Allemande
9. Partita No. 2 In C Minor, BWV 826: Courante
10. Partita No. 2 In C Minor, BWV 826: Sarabande
11. Partita No. 2 In C Minor, BWV 826: Rondeaux
12. Partita No. 2 In C Minor, BWV 826: Capriccio
13. Partita No. 4 In D Major, BWV 828: Ouverture - Allegro
14. Partita No. 4 In D Major, BWV 828: Allemande
15. Partita No. 4 In D Major, BWV 828: Courante
16. Partita No. 4 In D Major, BWV 828: Aria
17. Partita No. 4 In D Major, BWV 828: Sarabande
18. Partita No. 4 In D Major, BWV 828: Menuet
19. Partita No. 4 In D Major, BWV 828: Gigue

Disc-2
1. Partita No. 3 in A Minor BWV 827: Fantasia
2. Partita No. 3 in A Minor BWV 827: Allemande
3. Partita No. 3 in A Minor BWV 827: Corrente
4. Partita No. 3 in A Minor BWV 827: Sarabande
5. Partita No. 3 in A Minor BWV 827: Burlesca
6. Partita No. 3 in A Minor BWV 827: Scherzo
7. Partita No. 3 in A Minor BWV 827: Gigue
8. Partita No. 5 in G Major BWV 829: Praeambulum
9. Partita No. 5 in G Major BWV 829: Allemande
10. Partita No. 5 in G Major BWV 829: Corrente
11. Partita No. 5 in G Major BWV 829: Sarabande
12. Partita No. 5 in G Major BWV 829: Tempo di Minuetta
13. Partita No. 5 in G Major BWV 829: Passepied
14. Partita No. 5 in G Major BWV 829: Gigue
15. Partita No. 6 in E Minor BWV 830: Toccata - (Fugue)
16. Partita No. 6 in E Minor BWV 830: Allemande
17. Partita No. 6 in E Minor BWV 830: Corrente
18. Partita No. 6 in E Minor BWV 830: Air
19. Partita No. 6 in E Minor BWV 830: Sarabande
20. Partita No. 6 in E Minor BWV 830: Tempo di Gavotta
21. Partita No. 6 in E Minor BWV 830: Gigue

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Editorial Reviews

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Sometimes it helps not to specialize. As Angela Hewitt expands her horizons beyond Bach, her Bach, paradoxically, has ripened tenfold, as revealed in this magnificent set of partitas. One listens in vain for a single slip-up in timing or voicing. Articulation is marvelously varied, but never for the sake of variety itself. More to the point, the music's dancelike subtexts bring out a more deeply felt, emotionally three-dimensional music-making than encountered in Hewitt's previous Bach efforts. This gifted pianist has come into her own. Hear her. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews

Superb Performances of Sublime Music (2003-07-12)

It is amazing that Bach's Partitas are the first compositions that he published, though he had written hundreds of others before them. It is also sobering that he had to pay for their publication, as he did for many of the 12 works that were published in his lifetime. [About 1080 compositions have survived, but it is thought that Bach probably wrote about 2000.]

These pieces are among the best of Bach's keyboard works and are played beautifully by Angela Hewitt. I enjoy hearing them played on harpsichord, too, but when they are played on the piano, I want the performer to treat it like a piano as Ms Hewitt does.

She plays stylistically, but is not afraid to occasionally use the pedal and to use the dynamic resources of the piano. I also recommend her set of French Suites.

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