01/11/2022
Elina Albach,
: Markus Krebs 2009 after Michael Mietke -
- Bach - Partita no. 5 in G major BWV 829 - Albach |
0:00 Praeambulum
3:27 Allemande
8:14 Courante
10:22 Sarabande
15:48 Tempo di minuetta
18:05 Passepied
20:01 Gigue
This in G major, performed here by Elina Albach for All of , is the fifth of a set of six partitas. The piece begins with a movement that Bach called . It is actually a fantasia, a quasi improvised entrée that revolves mainly around simple scales and chords. The unusual title and the musical content make it seem like the start of a musical teaching method. After all, the practice of playing scales also has a history. In Bach’s day, fi*****ng traditionally did not use the thumb, so keyboard players played and phrased scales differently to pianists today. However, this tradition was already changing at the time Bach was composing, and the scales in the first movement of this Partita in G major appear to ask the keyboard player: which fi*****ng should you use?
After the Praeambulum, the other movements demand attention for other aspects of the keyboard player’s fingers. For instance, the Allemande has evenly phrased triplets, and the Corrente and the Tempo di minuetta are studies in broken chords. Moreover, only the slow Sarabande is completely three-part. The Tempo di minuetto is even practically monophonic – no wonder that Robert Schumann used this as teaching material for his daughter Marie. At the end, in the Gigue, a full three-part development returns. And Bach pulls out all the stops for this closing section. After the simplicity of the earlier movements, the Gigue gradually assumes the guise of a three-part fugue with two themes.
Recorded for the project All of Bach on June 2nd 2021 at the Philharmonie, Haarlem. -
Suite in G major
Suite in G groot
Partita in G major
Partita in G groot
Bach
clavier
harpsichord
six partitas
zes partita’s
Notenbüchlein
Anna Magdalena Bach
Clavier-Übung
All of Bach
Bachvereniging
Nederlandse Bachvereniging
Netherlands Bach Society
Johann Sebastian Bach
J S Bach
Classical Music
Klassieke Muziek
Elina Albach
Philharmonie Haarlem
Historic performance practice
Historically Informed Practice
Partita no 5
Partita nr 5
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Harpsichord: , 2009 after - - -
This Partita in G major, performed here by Elina Albach for All of Bach, is the fifth of a set of six partitas. The piece begins with a movement that Bach ca...
