Bach: Complete Partitas

Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): More Information: Piano Classics Facebook: Spotify Playlists: Piano Classics Spotify: Most Popular Piano Classics: Peaceful and Relaxing Piano Music: The Best of Rachmaninoff: The Best of Liszt: The Best of Chopin Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Artist: Yuan Sheng piano This is the third instalment of Yuan Sheng’s complete Bach cycle played on the piano, previous issues include the Goldberg Variations and the Italian Concerto/French Overture. “China’s premier interpreter of Bach”, is what International Piano Magazine called Yuan Sheng. A pupil of Solomon Mikowsky (Manhattan School of Music) and notably Rosalyn Tureck Yuan Sheng extensively studied the performance practice of Baroque music. Equally at home at the harpsichord he has an instinctive feeling for the possibilities, sonorities and touch of the instrument at hand, so that “the listener might easily have imagined the composer at the keyboard” (Boston Intelligencer). This recent recording of the complete 6 Partitas is again a marvel of elegance, wit, rhetoric and brilliance, played on a modern Steinway. Besides pursuing an international career Yuan Sheng is Professor of Piano at the Bejing Central Conservatory of Music. 00:00:00 Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: I. Praeludium 00:01:43 Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: II. Allemande 00:05:37 Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: III. Corrente 00:08:35 Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: IV. Sarabande 00:14:10 Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: V. Menuet I&II 00:17:20 Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: VI. Giga 00:19:22 Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826: I. Sinfonia 00:23:43 Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826: II. Allemande 00:28:20 Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826: III. Courante 00:30:42 Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826: IV. Sarabande 00:34:41 Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826: V. Rondeaux 00:36:07 Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826: VI. Capriccio 00:39:41 Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: I. Ouverture 00:46:02 Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: II. Allemande 00:55:09 Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: III. Courante 00:58:49 Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: IV. Sarabande 01:04:58 Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: V. Aria 01:07:12 Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: VI. Menuet 01:08:38 Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: VII. Gigue 01:12:13 Partita No. 3 in A Minor, BWV 827: I. Fantasia 01:14:22 Partita No. 3 in A Minor, BWV 827: II. Allemande 01:17:09 Partita No. 3 in A Minor, BWV 827: III. Corrente 01:20:34 Partita No. 3 in A Minor, BWV 827: IV. Sarabande 01:25:03 Partita No. 3 in A Minor, BWV 827: V. Burlesca 01:27:30 Partita No. 3 in A Minor, BWV 827: VI. Scherzo 01:28:40 Partita No. 3 in A Minor, BWV 827: VII. Gigue 01:31:56 Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: I. Praeambulum 01:34:38 Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: II. Allemande 01:38:56 Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: III. Corrente 01:40:48 Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: IV. Sarabande 01:45:57 Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: V. Tempo di menuetta 01:47:52 Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: VI. Passepied 01:49:37 Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: VII. Gigue 01:53:26 Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830: I. Toccata 02:00:26 Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830: II. Allemanda 02:03:32 Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830: III. Corrente 02:08:22 Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830: IV. Sarabande 02:15:16 Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830: V. Air 02:16:46 Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830: VI. Tempo di gavotte 02:18:57 Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830: VII. Gigue #piano #classic #music #bach