ExclusiveBach: Preludio From Partita No.3 Bwv 1006

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Just as the C major sonata outshines its sombre sister works in minor, the third partia also brings the three solo suites to a glorious conclusion in major. In Bach's most brilliant violin key of E major - think of the 3rd sonata with harpsichord or the E major violin concerto - a colourful variety of forms in the galant style prevails here. A detail of the fair copy reveals that we are dealing with a piece in the ‘French goût’: Apart from the Preludio, all the movements are labelled in French. These are ‘galanteries’, as they were called at the time, fashionable dances from the French court, which gradually replaced the traditional movements of the German suite (allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue). Of course, the minuet should not be missing. It appears in a pair of alternativement (Menuet I-II), framed by a Gavotte en rondeau and a Bourée, two other favourite dances of the time. The Preludio is immediately followed by a Loure, a dance with heavy accents in 6/4 time, which Bach's friend and colleague Telemann was particularly fond of. (Bach otherwise only used the loure in the 5th French Suite.) The finale is a gigue in the French version of this originally Scottish dance.
The festive tone of the suite is set by the Preludio, the most glamorous etude in broken triads that Bach wrote. He was so sure of the effect of this movement that he arranged it for a wide variety of instruments: for lute or lute-harpsichord in a later version of the entire Partia (BWV 1006a) and for organ with orchestra. He used the latter arrangement, whose splendour of sound with timpani and trumpets can hardly be imagined when listening to the original, as the Sinfonia for the cantata BWV 29 Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir. The entire E major partita should probably be understood in this sense: as thanks to the creator for the completion of an opus for violin that is still unrivalled today in its compositional artistry, variety and inner greatness - Soli Deo Gloria, God alone to glory, as Bach would have said. Source: kammermusikfuehrer.de/werke/81

The video was filmed by Christian Schlegel in Kiental, Switzerland and was edited by Wenjing Ma.



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