JS Bach - Violin Sonatas & Partitas, Cello Suites (arr. Leonhardt)
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95757
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 7th December 2018
Contents
Works
Cello Suite no.4 in E flat major, BWV1010 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)Cello Suite no.5 in C minor, BWV1011 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Cello Suite no.6 in D major, BWV1012 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Lute Suite (Partita) in C minor, BWV997
Partita for solo violin no.2 in D minor, BWV1004 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Partita for solo violin no.3 in E major, BWV1006 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Sonata for solo violin no.1 in G minor, BWV1001 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Sonata for solo violin no.3 in C major, BWV1005 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Artists
Roberto Loreggian (harpsichord)Works
Cello Suite no.4 in E flat major, BWV1010 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)Cello Suite no.5 in C minor, BWV1011 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Cello Suite no.6 in D major, BWV1012 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Lute Suite (Partita) in C minor, BWV997
Partita for solo violin no.2 in D minor, BWV1004 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Partita for solo violin no.3 in E major, BWV1006 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Sonata for solo violin no.1 in G minor, BWV1001 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Sonata for solo violin no.3 in C major, BWV1005 (arr. Leonhardt for harpsichord)
Artists
Roberto Loreggian (harpsichord)About
During the late 1970s, the Dutch harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt (1928-2012) transcribed and arranged the works by Bach for solo violin and solo cello for harpsichord. He played them in his own recitals and recorded some of them for a German label. Only in 2018 did these arrangements become more widely available for keyboard players thanks to a new Bärenreiter edition prepared by Siebe Henstra at the invitation of Leonhardt’s widow Marie and daughter Saskia. With typical understatement, Leonhardt declared that ‘I think Bach would have forgiven me for the fact that I have set myself to making arrangements of his works. Whether or not he would have forgiven the way I have done it, remains of course a moot point.’
The Cello Suites, the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin and a pair of slow dances (originally for flute and for lute) now receive their first recordings not made by Leonhardt himself, and at the hands of an early-music keyboard player who has enriched the Brilliant Classics catalogue with acclaimed recordings of Telemann, Frescobaldi, Bach and much more.
Leonhardt’s transcription of the great Chaconne from the D minor Partita is as rich and thrilling as to be anticipated from one of the sovereign Bach interpreters of our age (or any other), discreetly opening out Bach’s implied harmonies without adding superfluous anachronisms. In some ways more enlightening and impressive are his elaborations of the Cello Suites’ plainer textures. Much more than a curio, this significant new album demands the attention of all Bach devotees.
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