ExclusiveBach: Partita no. 2, BWV 826 - III. Courante

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita no. 2, BWV 826 - III. Courante. 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 second Partita appeared in print within a year of the first (by September, 1727) and, from the outset presents as a more substantial, serious and momentous work than its earlier companion. The opening Sinfonia begins with a dotted introduction, almost like the beginning of a French Ouverture. This grand opening gesture quickly transforms itself into a melodious, expressive and highly ornamented aria,akin to the slow movement of the Italian Concerto (and, like the middle movement of BWV 971 also marked Andante, indicating a not-too-slow tempo). Anenergetic, genuine two-voice fugue follows with an ascending-scale subject that encompasses the interval of a minor 9th, creating a mood of special intensity. The following allemande evokes the contrapuntal seriousness found within the English Suites. It maintains a light, two-voice texture throughout and uses several of the lowest notes found on Bach’s keyboard: AA and BB flat.The courante, genuinely French in style with its slow, 3/2 pulse, lively figuration that makes the tempo seem quicker than it is, and traditional cadential hemiolas that conclude each half reinforces the rather conservative and serious nature of the work." Source emmanuelmusic.org

The video was shot by Christian Schlegel in the beautiful Gasterental valley in Switzerland and edited by Wenjing Ma.




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