Ton Koopman
Six Partitas for harpsichord (Clavier Übung I) BWV 825-830
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917257427
- Catalog number CC 72574
- Release date 18 April 2013
About the album
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.
Ton Koopman
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11Partita 1 (BWV 825) Praeludium
02:00 -
12Partita 1 (BWV 825) Allemande
05:02 -
13Partita 1 (BWV 825) Corrente
03:02 -
14Partita 1 (BWV 825) Sarabande
05:30 -
15Partita 1 (BWV 825) Menuet I & II
02:44 -
16Partita 1 (BWV 825) Gigue
02:45 -
17Partita 2 (BWV 826) Sinfonia
04:32 -
18Partita 2 (BWV 826) Allemande
04:29 -
19Partita 2 (BWV 826) Courante
02:37 -
110Partita 2 (BWV 826) Sarabande
02:48 -
111Partita 2 (BWV 826) Rondeaux
01:39 -
112Partita 2 (BWV 826) Capriccio
04:08 -
113Partita 6 (BWV 830) Toccata
06:00 -
114Partita 6 (BWV 830) Allemande
03:56 -
115Partita 6 (BWV 830) Corrente
05:13 -
116Partita 6 (BWV 830) Air
01:25 -
117Partita 6 (BWV 830) Sarabande
04:48 -
118Partita 6 (BWV 830) Tempo di Gavotta
02:04 -
119Partita 6 (BWV 830) Gigue
06:11 -
21Partita 3 (BWV 827) Fantasia
02:09 -
22Partita 3 (BWV 827) Allemande
03:44 -
23Partita 3 (BWV 827) Corrente
03:46 -
24Partita 3 (BWV 827) Sarabande
04:06 -
25Partita 3 (BWV 827) Burlesca
02:07 -
26Partita 3 (BWV 827) Scherzo
01:20 -
27Partita 3 (BWV 827) Gigue
03:34 -
28Partita 4 (BWV 828) Ouverture
06:02 -
29Partita 4 (BWV 828) Allemande
06:48 -
210Partita 4 (BWV 828) Courante
03:47 -
211Partita 4 (BWV 828) Aria
02:09 -
212Partita 4 (BWV 828) Sarabande
05:47 -
213Partita 4 (BWV 828) Menuet
01:17 -
214Partita 4 (BWV 828) Gigue
04:29 -
215Partita 5 (BWV 829) Praeambulum
02:33 -
216Partita 5 (BWV 829) Allemande
05:38 -
217Partita 5 (BWV 829) Corrente
01:59 -
218Partita 5 (BWV 829) Sarabande
04:01 -
219Partita 5 (BWV 829) Tempo di Minuetta
01:46 -
220Partita 5 (BWV 829) Passepied
02:08 -
221Partita 5 (BWV 829) Gigue
04:27
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