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Bach: Six Partitas

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Catalogue numberALPHA994
Release date2024-05-10
Discs2
Orig. sample rate96000 Hz

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Martin Helmchen belongs to the category of great piano virtuosos who are also interested in early instruments: ‘One of the most thrilling moments of my life as a pianist was when I encountered the intact, original Spät & Schmahl tangent piano from 1790. My initial doubts about a pianist of today being able to master such an instrument rapidly gave way to the swelling conviction that here one could make certain things in Bach’s music sound in a way that is impossible on both the harpsichord and the modern piano. Everything here subjugated me: the colours, the symbiosis of the characteristics of the harpsichord, clavichord and early piano, the buff stop, the opening up of polyphonic textures.’ It is true that this instrument was built forty years after Bach’s death, but, Helmchen continues, ‘the greatest composers, including Beethoven, complained about the limitations of their instrument, and it’s fascinating to play keyboard instruments that were ultimately an extension and improvement of the ones those composers knew’.
 
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Disc 1
  Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825 19:16
01 I. Prelude 02:08 $ 0.38 USD
02 II. Allemande 04:02 $ 0.73 USD
03 III. Courante 02:43 $ 0.49 USD
04 IV. Sarabande 05:05 $ 0.92 USD
05 V. Menuett I & II 02:59 $ 0.54 USD
06 VI. Gigue 02:19 $ 0.42 USD
 
  Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV 827 19:54
07 I. Fantasia 02:54 $ 0.52 USD
08 II. Allemande 03:13 $ 0.58 USD
09 III. Courante 03:02 $ 0.55 USD
10 IV. Sarabande 03:56 $ 0.71 USD
11 V. Burlesca 02:26 $ 0.44 USD
12 VI. Scherzo 01:01 $ 0.18 USD
13 VII. Gigue 03:22 $ 0.61 USD
 
  Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828 31:54
14 I. Ouverture 05:46 $ 1.04 USD
15 II. Allemande 08:57 $ 1.61 USD
16 III. Courante 03:28 $ 0.62 USD
17 IV. Aria 02:32 $ 0.46 USD
18 V. Sarabande 05:55 $ 1.07 USD
19 VI. Menuett 01:26 $ 0.26 USD
20 VII. Gigue 03:50 $ 0.69 USD
 
 
Disc 2
  Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 20:22
21 I. Sinfonia 04:36 $ 0.83 USD
22 II. Allemande 04:48 $ 0.86 USD
23 III. Courante 02:16 $ 0.41 USD
24 IV. Sarabande 03:35 $ 0.65 USD
25 V. Rondeau 01:34 $ 0.28 USD
26 VI. Capriccio 03:33 $ 0.64 USD
 
  Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829 21:17
27 I. Preambulum 02:22 $ 0.43 USD
28 II. Allemande 04:43 $ 0.85 USD
29 III. Corrente 01:48 $ 0.32 USD
30 IV. Sarabande 04:41 $ 0.84 USD
31 V. Tempo di Minuetto 02:04 $ 0.37 USD
32 VI. Passepied 01:44 $ 0.31 USD
33 VII. Gigue 03:55 $ 0.71 USD
 
  Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830 31:01
34 I. Toccata 07:30 $ 1.35 USD
35 II. Allemande 03:33 $ 0.64 USD
36 III. Corrente 04:26 $ 0.80 USD
37 IV. Air 01:39 $ 0.30 USD
38 V. Sarabande 06:30 $ 1.17 USD
39 VI. Tempo di Gavotta 02:13 $ 0.40 USD
40 VII. Gigue 05:10 $ 0.93 USD
 
  Album total 143:44
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