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Music CD
2006, August 01
Sonatas and Partitas
Bach's works for solo violin.
J.S. Bach: Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin BWV 1001-1006, by Julia Fischer
This is the second of the two recordings of this work I mark "Best Performance." It was made in 2004 when Ms. Fischer was 21 years old.
2006, January 22
BWV 174.1
Not a chorale, but so wonderful
This sinfonia from Cantata 174 is an arrangement Bach made of the first movement of the third Brandenburg. He included horns and they are so perfect for the music, I will always miss them in the concerto version.
This recording of the sinfonia is light and lively in character and I like it very much.
This was a new discovery for me, I did not know Bach had used this music in both a concerto and a cantata. The cantata was played June 6, 1729; the concerto was presented to the Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg as part of a job application in March of 1721.
I am so happy that he added the horns and recycled the music into the cantata.
A short excerpt, CD 1, Track 16.
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