Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV1004

composer

1720; Cöthen; Sei Solo a Violino senza Basso accompagnato Libro Primo; first published in 1802

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Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin
Alina Ibragimova (violin)

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Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin
Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)

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Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 2 – Ferruccio Busoni
Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

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The Transcendental Tradition
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Variations, Passacaglias & Chaconnes
Alice Artzt (guitar)

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Movement 1: Allemanda

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

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Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)

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Movement 2: Corrente

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

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Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)

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Movement 3: Sarabanda

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

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Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)

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Movement 4: Giga

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

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Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)

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Movement 5: Ciaccona

arranger
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Ronald Stevenson (piano)

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Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

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Alina Ibragimova (violin)

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Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)

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arranger
Alice Artzt (b1943)

Alice Artzt (guitar)

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The Partita No 2 in D minor (BWV1004) is the best known of Bach’s six works for unaccompanied violin on account of its brilliantly sustained, imaginatively varied and architecturally magnificent Ciaccona. Like the B minor Partita, it begins with an Allemanda which on first acquaintance may seem a little lacking in geniality. This movement, along with the Corrente which follows it and the subsequent Giga, progresses in a single continuous melodic line, in which harmony provided by multiple stopping is almost entirely absent. The Sarabanda, by contrast, with its richly chordal passages gives the impression, to some extent illusory, of greater complexity. The mighty concluding Ciaccona, a 257-bar ‘morceau célèbre’ and veritable Goliath of the violin repertory, is built on a noble and declamatory theme upon which Bach develops sixty-four continuous variations, exploring a dazzlingly intricate range of harmonic possibilities. This is a movement of unfathomable subtlety, astounding virtuosity and great expressive and architectural beauty. Bach seems to have set himself incalculable challenges, sustaining his Chaconne with a major-key section, rhythmic diversity and a kaleidoscope of technical devices both pushing the boundaries of, and summarizing, we might say, the baroque violinist’s art.

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