ExclusiveBach: Partita no. 2, BWV 826 - I. Sinfonia

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita no. 2, BWV 826 - I. Sinfonia. This beautiful piece was played by Ivan Ilic. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0 DEED, Attribution 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

The first movement of Bach's second harpsichord partita, published in 1727, is a case of a piece for keyboard instrument that would have been impossible to perform on old trumpets and horns: the key of C minor, the many chromatic secondary notes and the remote modulations would have been simply too much for the instruments of the time. Today, this highly expressive movement is a masterpiece for any brass ensemble. It is in three parts, which is why Bach called it a 'Sinfonia', the Italian term of the day for a three-part introduction. It begins with a majestic Grave (Heavy), which almost sounds like an organ piece with its powerful chords, followed by a more delicate Andante (Going) with a cantabile upper voice, and finally a fast two-part fugue on a typically dance-like Bach theme. Source: kammermusikfuehrer.de

The video was shot in collaboration with Christian and Simone Schlegel in the beautiful Gasterental, Switzerland, and edited by Wenjing Ma.






#classicalmusic, #Music, #古典音樂, #klassischemusik, #GJWexclusive, #Switzerland, #Schweiz, #Natur, #Nature, #KlassischeMusikundNatur, #ClassicalMusicAndNature, #古典音樂小站,