The Art of Transcription: J S Bach - Goldberg Variations, 15 Sinfonias
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Label: Nimbus - Alliance
Cat No: NI6199
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 2nd July 2012
Contents
Works
Goldberg Variations, BWV988 (string trio)Three-part Inventions (Sinfonias) (15), BWV787-801 (string trio)
Artists
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin)Yuri Zhislin (viola)
Luigi Piovano (cello)
Works
Goldberg Variations, BWV988 (string trio)Three-part Inventions (Sinfonias) (15), BWV787-801 (string trio)
Artists
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin)Yuri Zhislin (viola)
Luigi Piovano (cello)
About
Sitkovetsky has performed as a soloist with a number of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Berlin, New York and LA Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Concertgebouw Orchestra, all of the major London orchestras, NHK, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. He has performed at a number of high-profile festivals, including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Verbier, Istanbul, Newport, Festival del Sole (Napa Valley) and the IMG Tuscan Sun Festival.
In 2003, he was appointed Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, a position he currently holds with great success.
"When I first wrote my transcription of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for String Trio, in 1984, it was both a labour of love and an obsession with the 1981 Glenn Gould recording. For two months I probably had the time of my life, musically speaking, being in the constant company of Johann Sebastian Bach and Glenn Gould.
Generally, at that time, transcriptions were out of fashion and I recall that my own colleagues and managers were sceptical about such an audacious idea. Since then my transcriptions have been played all over the world, and moreover they have opened the floodgates of new interpretive possibilities for the piece which have included solo harp, wind instruments of all kinds, saxophone quartets, Renaissance viols and even a fascinating concoction of Uri Caine, among many others.
By the time 2009 arrived I felt that this was the right moment to re-visit and somewhat re-examine my original transcription. It was 25 years after the piece was first transcribed, I had performed it many times and heard different adaptations of it, so I felt the need to return to a simpler version with hardly any repeats at all.
I have made some changes in orchestration, probably influenced by my String Orchestra transcription of 1992, but most of all I tried to inject some fresh, youthful energy to propel the piece from the beginning to end. As a result there was still room left for my old/new friends, 15 Sinfonias, which have always been in my mind to be played and recorded, and this was a welcome bonus for me and my talented young colleagues, Yuri Zhislin and Luigi Piovano.
I hope listeners will share in my life-long journey through the Goldberg Variations and my love of the music, indeed in the very first publication of the Variations, in 1742, J. S. Bach states that the spirit of the piece is “for the enjoyment of music lovers".
Dmitry Sitkovetsky
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