Bach: Inventions & Partita

Bach: Inventions & Partita

Bach: Inventions & Partita
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Janine Jansen
Performer: Maxim Rysanov
Performer: Thorleif Thedeen
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
  1. No.1 In C Major
  2. No.2 In C Minor
  3. No.3 In D Major
  4. No.4 In D Minor
  5. No.5 In E Flat Major
  6. No.6 In E Major
  7. No.7 In E Minor
  8. No.8 In F Major
  9. No.9 In F Minor
  10. No.10 In G Major
  11. No.11 In G Minor
  12. No.12 In A Major
  13. No.13 In A Minor
  14. No.14 In B Flat Major
  15. No.15 In B Minor
  16. I. Allemanda
  17. II. Corrente
  18. III. Sarabanda
  19. IV. Giga
  20. V. Ciaccona
  21. No.1 In C Major
  22. No.2 In C Minor
  23. No.3 In D Major
  24. No.4 In D Minor
  25. No.5 In E Flat Major
  26. No.6 In E Major
  27. No.7 In E Minor
  28. No.8 In F Major
  29. No.9 In F Minor
  30. No.10 In G Major
  31. No.11 In G Minor
  32. No.12 In A Major
  33. No.13 In A Minor
  34. No.14 In B Flat Major
  35. No.15 In B Minor

Music reviews of Bach: Inventions & Partita

Music Review: Musical find of a generation
Rating: 5 Stars

I've done comparison listens to the 2nd Partita between Jansen and numerous other violinists (Grumiaux, Menuhin, Szeryng, Steinhardt, Hahn, Fischer, Van Dael, Podger, St. John), and compared to Jansen, they all sound humorless and earth bound. Jansen is like a bird who can follow the music wherever it goes, from the earth to the tree tops to the mountains to the sea shore. She is able to find the "animal" within in each rhythmic structure and bring the full creature into view. The Partitas are, remember, dance collections, and Jansen seems to return to this essential fact. For most musicians, listening to them is like looking at the brush strokes of a painting. With Jansen, it is like being actually transported into the scene she is painting and gazing all around it. I can think of few musicians with this precious ability --- Toscanini comes first to mind. I hope she will record the Sonatas and the rest of the Partitas, and release them on SACD so that our living rooms may become the Bach dream she is painting.

The Inventions, which make up the bulk of this album, don't rise to the heights of Jansen's Partita for me, but are quite spirited and enjoyable. I could use more "impishness" in the playing for these particular pieces (Perlman's Beethoven op. 47 here comes to mind!), more dramatic contrast, but hey, they sound good. These are Jansen's own string transcriptions of the pieces Bach wrote for his son's piano practice. In this way they are unique contributions to the repertoire.

By the way, you here Jansen playing the "Barrere" Stradivarius of 1727, Rysanov playing a Guadagnini 1780 viola, and Thedeen playing a Tecchler 1811 cello.
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Description of Bach: Inventions & Partita

Fresh from a triumphant concerto recording featuring Mendelssohn and Bruch, the pillars of the Romantic violin repertoire, Janine Jansen reverts to the roots of violin playing, and the music of Bach. On her latest recording, Janine performs Bach's beloved two and three part inventions specially transcribed for violin, viola and cello. She brings a characteristically fresh approach to the popular repertoire, with a unique survey of the musical voices of Bach. Janine herself takes center stage for a luminous performance of Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin. Violist Maxim Rysanov joins her for Two-Part Inventions BWV 772a-788 and cellist Torleif Thedeen adds a third voice for Three-Part Inventions BWV 787-801.

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