JS Bach - Italian Concerto, English Suite no.5, Partita no.5
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Label: Bel Air Music
Cat No: BAM2004
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 22nd December 2008
Contents
Works
English Suites (6), BWV806-811Partita no.5 in G major, BWV829
Artists
Valeri Grohovski (piano)Works
English Suites (6), BWV806-811Partita no.5 in G major, BWV829
Artists
Valeri Grohovski (piano)About
Chopin paid tribute to the 48 preludes and fugues of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, often called “the Old Testament” and the composer-journalist Robert Schumann campaigned for a Bach monument and a complete edition of his work. Brahms was devoted to Bach from a young age, composing organ preludes and fugues in the same style. Liszt elaborated and transcribed a number of his keyboard pieces and Wagner called him “the musical miracle man.” As if this were not enough, Bach’s influence continued into the 20th century as a shadow not only behind neo-classicists like Stravinsky, Busoni and Max Reger, but also behind the atonal music of Arnold Schoenberg. Today, according to the editors of The New Bach Reader, Bach is omnipresent. “The further we climb in our own musical education, the higher the mountain of Bach’s music thrusts its peak into the sky.” Bach has been transcribed to jazz by Jacques Loussier and Keith Jarrett and synthesized by Moog. He has been turned into rock by Sting and Elvis Costello and his influence can be heard in the solo improvisations of Irish fiddle players. Even those who are not familiar with Bach’s music easily recognize some of his music like the Air on the G string, made famous first by a cigar advertisement and later used as the basis for Procul Harum’s 1960s hit A Whiter Shade of Pale. Many a church wedding is graced by Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring and the lovely Sheep may Safely Graze, extracted from one of Bach’s 200 cantatas. The dramatic organ Toccata in D minor has shaken the foundation of many churches and the themes from The Well-Tempered Clavier, transcribed to popular pieces, repeatedly appear in contemporary “crossover” albums. Perhaps Bach was the summation of all who preceded him and the greatest influence on all who followed him. The spell of inspiration and influence cast by Bach continues into the second millennium. Many regards to Bach, the composer, as the greatest of all time.
What are suites? The term ‘suite’ has been used to describe different kinds of collections - from a group of rooms leading from one to another to a set of matching furniture. The musical suite shares similar features, with different movements having their own structure, function, and place in the overall sequence, but linked together by the same musical ideas and the same key. The basis of the instrumental suite was the dance. The idea of linking together contrasting dances goes back to around 1400. At first, the slow stately pavan, in duple time, was paired with the fast triple galliard. Later new dances began to appear and the allemande, the courante, the sarabande and the gigue replaced the pavan and the galliard. Although French influence predominated, it was a German composer, J.J. Froberger, who is credited with forming these different dances into a regular pattern that formed the basis of the instrumental suites of Bach and Handel. In the writings of Bach, the suite reached the height of its development as Bach contributed not only his orchestral suites but also those for violin, for cello and the keyboard suites such as the English Suite no.5 and Partita no.5, recorded on this album.
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