Bach: Violin Sonatas & Partitas

Itzhak Perlman

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Itzhak Perlman, the supreme violinist of his time, performs the supreme works for unaccompanied violin. In preparing the Bach Sonatas and Partitas, Perlman sought authenticity through the score itself, not through musicological research: “Music is a language, and, performed responsively, with musical logic as guide, it will make sense.”

Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas are a landmark not only of the solo violin repertoire but of all music history. No composer before or since has created a comparable architectural miracle, or made better use of the violin’s polyphonic capabilities, than did Bach in this set of six works. The improvements in instrument-making introduced by such experts in the field as Niccolò Amati and his pupil Antonio Stradivari meant that performers and composers could now push the tone and power of the violin to bold new limits. The Second Partita also includes a Chaconne which appears to stand outside space and time. Its complexity, power and splendor make it in a way the keystone of the entire musical edifice — a magnificent set of variations on a single theme which exploits the violin’s full harmonic and contrapuntal potential. While the great virtuosos of the nineteenth century, Paganini chief among them, expanded the instrument’s technical capabilities, Bach had already established its limits in terms of polyphony.

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Track Listings

LP 1

  1. Sonata no. 1 in G minor BWV1001 I. Adagio
  2. Sonata no. 1 in G minor BWV1001 II. Fuga Allegro
  3. Sonata no. 1 in G minor BWV1001 III. Siciliana
  4. Sonata no. 1 in G minor BWV1001 IV. Presto
  5. Partita no. 2 in D minor BWV1004 I. Allemanda
  6. Partita no. 2 in D minor BWV1004 II. Courante
  7. Partita no. 2 in D minor BWV1004 III. Sarabande
  8. Partita no. 2 in D minor BWV1004 IV. Gigue
  9. Partita no. 2 in D minor BWV1004 V. Ciaccona

 

LP 2

  1. Partita no. 1 in B minor BWV1002 I. Allemanda
  2. Partita no. 1 in B minor BWV1002 II. Double
  3. Partita no. 1 in B minor BWV1002 III. Courante
  4. Partita no. 1 in B minor BWV1002 IV. Double
  5. Partita no. 1 in B minor BWV1002 V. Sarabande
  6. Partita no. 1 in B minor BWV1002 VI. Double
  7. Partita no. 1 in B minor BWV1002 VII. Bourr?e
  8. Partita no. 1 in B minor BWV1002 VIII. Double
  9. Partita no. 3 in E major BWV1006 I. Preludio
  10. Partita no. 3 in E major BWV1006 II. Loure
  11. Partita no. 3 in E major BWV1006 III. Gavotte En Rondeau
  12. Partita no. 3 in E major BWV1006 IV. Menuet I
  13. Partita no. 3 in E major BWV1006 V. Menuet II
  14. Partita no. 3 in E major BWV1006 VI. Bourr?e
  15. Partita no. 3 in E major BWV1006 VII. Gigue

 

LP 3

  1. Sonata no. 2 in A minor BWV1003 I. Grave
  2. Sonata no. 2 in A minor BWV1003 II. Fuga
  3. Sonata no. 2 in A minor BWV1003 III. Andante
  4. Sonata no. 2 in A minor BWV1003 IV. Allegro
  5. Sonata no. 3 in C major BWV1005 I. Adagio
  6. Sonata no. 3 in C major BWV1005 II. Fuga
  7. Sonata no. 3 in C major BWV1005 III. Largo
  8. Sonata no. 3 in C major BWV1005 IV. Allegro Assai

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