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Bach and before
Bach and before
Artist: Walter Schenkman
Genre:
Music for piano
Category:
Baroque
Composer:
Various Artists
Supported languages: Italiano
Extended description:
Bach's monumental Goldberg Variations, consisting of an Aria and Thirty Variations, constitute the central portion of the present program. Along with the Goldberg, the program also features shorter works by earlier composers spanning three generations: the Italian Girolamo Frescobaldi, born 100 years before Bach in 1583, is represented by a Capriccio based on fragments of melody from a popular folk tune of his day. The work of his pupil), Johann Jacob Froberger (1617-67), who served at the Imperiai Court in Vienna as organist and composer, is illustrated in one of his many Toccatas; the one performed here is noteworthy for its improvisatory style and prominent chromaticism.
Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) served as Bach's immediate predecessor at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. The present selection is taken from a collection of Partitas, published in 1689 under the title of “Clavier Uebung,” or Clavier Practice. Kuhnau's Partita features the customary Prelude as introduction and follows with a series of miniature dance movements: Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Gigue.
The program concludes with a performance of the first Partita from Bach's own collection of Partitas published in 1739 under the same title as that used by Kuhnau: Clavier Uebung. The Bach Partita includes the same sequence of movements as Kuhnau's with the exception of an added Menuet, but the movements within the Bach work are of substantially greater length and complexity.
Bach's miniature first Two-Part Invention concludes the program as encore: the listener may easily recognize similarities between that work and the opening motive of Kuhnau's Partita heard earlier
Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) served as Bach's immediate predecessor at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. The present selection is taken from a collection of Partitas, published in 1689 under the title of “Clavier Uebung,” or Clavier Practice. Kuhnau's Partita features the customary Prelude as introduction and follows with a series of miniature dance movements: Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Gigue.
The program concludes with a performance of the first Partita from Bach's own collection of Partitas published in 1739 under the same title as that used by Kuhnau: Clavier Uebung. The Bach Partita includes the same sequence of movements as Kuhnau's with the exception of an added Menuet, but the movements within the Bach work are of substantially greater length and complexity.
Bach's miniature first Two-Part Invention concludes the program as encore: the listener may easily recognize similarities between that work and the opening motive of Kuhnau's Partita heard earlier
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