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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: SIGCD030
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Baroque
Subcollection: HarpsichordSignum Records presents the second volume of Lucy Carolan's recordings of Bach's keyboard music consisting of works from Volumes two, three and four of his "Clavierübung". Volume two contains the popular Italian Concerto and French Overture and concentrates on the number "two" - two pieces, two keys, two modes, two nations (Italy and France) and a two-manual harpsichord. The Italian Concerto is unique: a wholly original solo keyboard work written as if "transcribed" from a string original to which Bach adds strikingly new ideas expressly suited for harpsichord. Bach had acquired his knowledge of Italian repertoire early on by transcribing Vivaldi violin concertos for solo harpsichord around 1712-13. The contrasting French Overture contains lighter dances from the court of Louis XIV such as the gavotte, the passepied and bourrée - all are dance forms which had been familiar to Bach from his childhood. The disc also includes duets from volume three and the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue which, although unpublished during Bach's lifetime, became an inspiration to subsequent generations of composers. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SIGCD012
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection:
Baroque
Subcollection: HarpsichordHarpsichords:
Von Nagel (Paris) 1988, after Michael Mietke (Partitas 1, 3 and 6)
Michael Johnson 1996, after Goermans-Taskin (Partitas 2, 4 and 5)
Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the following:
Birmingham Conservatoire, for providing a research grant in aid of this project, and for the loan of the instruments
Dr Richard D.P.Jones for providing a pre-publication copy of the revised Kritischer Bericht of the Neue Bach Ausgabe edition of the partitas. |
| 26.00 eur Buy |
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