ExclusiveBach: Violin Partita no. 2, BWV 1004, I. Allemande, II. Courante

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partita no. 2, BWV 1004, I. Allemande, II. Courante. This beautiful piece was played by Emil Telmanyi. It has Creative Commons license (PDM 1.0 DEED, Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

"Not only the Chaconne, with which Bach crowned his Partia seconda, but also the first four movements are among the most profound that he wrote. At the beginning of his ‘Inventio’ (we would speak of inspiration) was a chord sequence that can be heard most purely at the beginning of the Sarabanda: an excitingly varied D minor cadence. It underlies all the movements from the Allemanda to the Ciaccona and is only varied rhythmically and melodically. Bach revived the old German principle of the ‘variation suite’ here in order to give the Partia seconda the greatest possible unity of affect.

It is an affect of mourning, not lamentation, as the harmony repeatedly lightens to a major key. Right at the beginning of the Allemanda, the mourning ductus leads into a comforting major. Expressive intervals (diminished seventh, major and minor sixth) dominate the Italianate flowing melos of this movement. They suggest musical-rhetorical figures such as Exclamatio and Saltus duriusculus.

The corrente paraphrases the basic theme of the suite in powerful triplets, the sarabanda in painfully dissonant chords that repeatedly dissolve into runs. The Giga is characterised by cascading runs that sound as Italian as if the violinist Bach had taken lessons from Corelli." Source: ammermusikfuehrer.de

The video was filmed by Christian Schlegel and edited by Wenjing Ma.






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