Ton Koopman - J.S. Bach: Six Partitas for harpsichord (Clavier Übung I) BWV 825-830 (2012)
Artist: Ton Koopman
Title: J.S. Bach: Six Partitas for harpsichord (Clavier Übung I) BWV 825-830
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: Challenge Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 Kbps
Total Time: 02:24:23
Total Size: 1 Gb / 373 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist: Title: J.S. Bach: Six Partitas for harpsichord (Clavier Übung I) BWV 825-830
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: Challenge Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 Kbps
Total Time: 02:24:23
Total Size: 1 Gb / 373 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
CD 1
Partita 1 (BWV 825) (Johann Sebastian Bach)
1. Partita 1 (BWV 825): Praeludium 02:00
2. Partita 1 (BWV 825): Allemande 05:02
3. Partita 1 (BWV 825): Corrente 03:02
4. Partita 1 (BWV 825): Sarabande 05:30
5. Partita 1 (BWV 825): Menuet I & II 02:44
6. Partita 1 (BWV 825): Gigue 02:45
Partita 2 (BWV 826) (Johann Sebastian Bach)
7. Partita 2 (BWV 826): Sinfonia 04:32
8. Partita 2 (BWV 826): Allemande 04:29
9. Partita 2 (BWV 826): Courante 02:37
10. Partita 2 (BWV 826): Sarabande 02:48
11. Partita 2 (BWV 826): Rondeaux 01:39
12. Partita 2 (BWV 826): Capriccio 04:08
Partita 6 (BWV 830) (Johann Sebastian Bach)
13. Partita 6 (BWV 830): Toccata 06:00
14. Partita 6 (BWV 830): Allemande 03:56
15. Partita 6 (BWV 830): Corrente 05:13
16. Partita 6 (BWV 830): Air 01:25
17. Partita 6 (BWV 830): Sarabande 04:49
18. Partita 6 (BWV 830): Tempo di Gavotta 02:04
19. Partita 6 (BWV 830): Gigue 06:10
CD 2
Partita 3 (BWV 827) (Johann Sebastian Bach)
1. Partita 3 (BWV 827): Fantasia 02:08
2. Partita 3 (BWV 827): Allemande 03:44
3. Partita 3 (BWV 827): Corrente 03:46
4. Partita 3 (BWV 827): Sarabande 04:06
5. Partita 3 (BWV 827): Burlesca 02:07
6. Partita 3 (BWV 827): Scherzo 01:19
7. Partita 3 (BWV 827): Gigue 03:33
Partita 4 (BWV 828) (Johann Sebastian Bach)
8. Partita 4 (BWV 828): Ouverture 06:01
9. Partita 4 (BWV 828): Allemande 06:47
10. Partita 4 (BWV 828): Courante 03:47
11. Partita 4 (BWV 828): Aria 02:09
12. Partita 4 (BWV 828): Sarabande 05:47
13. Partita 4 (BWV 828): Menuet 01:17
14. Partita 4 (BWV 828): Gigue 04:29
Partita 5 (BWV 829) (Johann Sebastian Bach)
15. Partita 5 (BWV 829): Praeambulum 02:33
16. Partita 5 (BWV 829): Allemande 05:38
17. Partita 5 (BWV 829): Corrente 01:59
18. Partita 5 (BWV 829): Sarabande 04:00
19. Partita 5 (BWV 829): Tempo di Minuetta 01:46
20. Partita 5 (BWV 829): Passepied 02:08
21. Partita 5 (BWV 829): Gigue 04:27
Performers:
Ton Koopman - harpsichord
For a long time Baroque and Bach specialst Koopman wanted to record this masterpieces of Bach and now was the time to do it! Recorded in the trusted and beautiful-sounding Walloon Church in Amsterdam.
My recording of Bach’s harpsichord partitas was a long time in coming. The main reason was a lack of time (recording Bach’s complete organ works, complete cantatas and Dieterich Buxtehude’s Opera Omnia required much time and attention). Another factor was my respect for these masterpieces by Bach – they are not something to just fit in between other projects. I already had plans to record them in the 1990s, for Erato, and now that I finally am able to, it is for my own label. They were recorded in the trusted and beautiful-sounding Walloon Church in Amsterdam, with the famous recording duo of Tini Mathot and Adriaan Verstijnen, using my own Kroesbergen/Ruckers harpsichord and Werckmeister III tuning.
The Library of Congress possesses a printed copy of the Clavier-Übung that has Bach’s own handwritten notes and additions. There has been discussion about the meaning of these, but I think this copy gives definitive answers – these are corrections and additions made by Bach himself that do not appear in any modern editions of the partitas. Christoph Wolff talks about them in his introduction in this CD booklet. Significant, for example, is the addition in Bach’s hand to the second partita, in the transition in the sinfonia from its second to third section: there stands allegro, and a measure later, adagio. Until Christoph Wolff made this discovery, nobody knew what to do with these measures, and even now they are seldom or never played this way.
My recording of Bach’s harpsichord partitas was a long time in coming. The main reason was a lack of time (recording Bach’s complete organ works, complete cantatas and Dieterich Buxtehude’s Opera Omnia required much time and attention). Another factor was my respect for these masterpieces by Bach – they are not something to just fit in between other projects. I already had plans to record them in the 1990s, for Erato, and now that I finally am able to, it is for my own label. They were recorded in the trusted and beautiful-sounding Walloon Church in Amsterdam, with the famous recording duo of Tini Mathot and Adriaan Verstijnen, using my own Kroesbergen/Ruckers harpsichord and Werckmeister III tuning.
The Library of Congress possesses a printed copy of the Clavier-Übung that has Bach’s own handwritten notes and additions. There has been discussion about the meaning of these, but I think this copy gives definitive answers – these are corrections and additions made by Bach himself that do not appear in any modern editions of the partitas. Christoph Wolff talks about them in his introduction in this CD booklet. Significant, for example, is the addition in Bach’s hand to the second partita, in the transition in the sinfonia from its second to third section: there stands allegro, and a measure later, adagio. Until Christoph Wolff made this discovery, nobody knew what to do with these measures, and even now they are seldom or never played this way.
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