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Partita No 3 in E major, BWV1006
composer
1720; Cöthen; Sei Solo a Violino senza Basso accompagnato Libro Primo; first published in 1802

Recordings
'Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin' (CDD22009)
'Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin' (CDA67691/2)
'Rachmaninov: The Complete Solo Piano Music' (CDS44041/8)
'Rachmaninov: The Transcriptions' (CDA66486)
'Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 3 – Friedman, Grainger & Murdoch' (CDA67344)
'Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 10 – Saint-Saëns & Philipp' (CDA67873)
Details
Movement 1: Prelude
arranger
1933

Track 6 on CDA66486 [3'33] Archive Service; also available on CDS44041/8 (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Boosey & Hawkes)
Track 6 on CDS44041/8 CD8 [3'33] 8CDs Boxed set (at a special price) (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Boosey & Hawkes)
Movement 1: Preludio
Track 10 on CDA67691/2 CD2 [3'14] 2CDs
Track 10 on CDD22009 CD2 [3'01] 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1) — Archive Service Only
Movement 2: Loure
Track 11 on CDA67691/2 CD2 [4'10] 2CDs
Track 11 on CDD22009 CD2 [4'42] 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1) — Archive Service Only
Movement 3: Gavotte
arranger
1933

Track 7 on CDA66486 [2'40] Archive Service; also available on CDS44041/8 (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Boosey & Hawkes)
arranger
dedicated to Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady; published in 1873 by Durand Schoenewerk

Track 14 on CDA67873 [2'55]
arranger
1933

Track 7 on CDS44041/8 CD8 [2'40] 8CDs Boxed set (at a special price) (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Boosey & Hawkes)
Movement 3: Gavotte en rondeau
Track 12 on CDA67691/2 CD2 [2'59] 2CDs
Track 12 on CDD22009 CD2 [3'06] 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1) — Archive Service Only
Movement 3: Rondeau
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Track 12 on CDA67344 [3'17] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Copyright Control)
Movement 4: Menuet 1 – Menuet 2
Movement 4a: Menuet 1
Track 13 on CDD22009 CD2 [1'08] 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1) — Archive Service Only
Movement 4b: Menuet 2
Track 14 on CDD22009 CD2 [2'37] 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1) — Archive Service Only
Movement 5: Bourrée
Track 14 on CDA67691/2 CD2 [1'16] 2CDs
Track 15 on CDD22009 CD2 [1'29] 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1) — Archive Service Only
Movement 6: Gigue
arranger
1933

Track 8 on CDA66486 [1'43] Archive Service; also available on CDS44041/8 (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Boosey & Hawkes)
Track 15 on CDA67691/2 CD2 [1'40] 2CDs
Track 16 on CDD22009 CD2 [1'56] 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1) — Archive Service Only
arranger
1933

Track 8 on CDS44041/8 CD8 [1'43] 8CDs Boxed set (at a special price) (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Boosey & Hawkes)

Partita No 3 in E major, BWV1006
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The Partita in E major (BWV1006) is, perhaps the most readily accessible of the six works for unaccompanied violin. It begins with a dashing, bravura Preludio whose almost unbroken pattern of semiquavers, together with passages of ‘bariolage’ and its bright key of E major, imbue the piece with radiance and anticipatory excitement. Bach himself must have thought especially well of this movement since, nine years later, in 1729, he transcribed the violin part for organ, adding parts for strings, oboes and basso continuo to create a sinfonia for a wedding cantata (BWV120a). Two years later, he turned to the piece again, further expanding the orchestration to include trumpets and drums, this time to provide an introduction to a cantata (BWV29) for the installation of the Leipzig city council in 1731. In the remaining movements Bach resisted the conventional sequence of dances belonging to the classical suite, confining himself to ‘galanteries’. After a Loure, a movement of gigue-like character but with a more intricate rhythm, follows a catchy Gavotte en rondeau. The first of two Menuets yields an air of courtly refinement while the second, with its tied ‘drone’ minims is of a more pastoral character. The syncopated Bourrée derives engaging effects from Bach’s carefully marked dynamic contrasts, while an airy, sprightly Gigue brings the Partita to a warmly expressive and convivial conclusion.

from notes by Nicholas Anderson © 2009

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