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fabcello
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(10/10/00 6:31:25 pm)
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Bach
Sonatas and Partitas
I am looking for a good 'non linear'
recording of the Bach Solo Violin works. Does anyone have any
recommendations for the 'best' recording of these?
Thanks,
~Frank~
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Bob
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(10/10/00 6:51:03 pm)
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Bach Sonatas and Partitas
There are many fine ones out there.
The two best, IMO, are by Grumiaux (Phillips) and Milstein (DG).
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Guy
cello
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(10/10/00 9:30:35 pm)
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Bach
Sonatas and Partitas
IMO, Hilary Hahn's recording of the
2nd and 3rd Partitas as well as the 3rd Sonata are among the best.
(Sony SK2793) She hasn't recorded the others (yet).
The old
Szeryng recording on Odyssey (preceding the currently available DG
recording) was also fabulous. I don't believe this has been
reissued, however.
Guy
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justinkagan1
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(10/11/00 8:56:34 am)
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Bach Sonatas and Partitas
You should also try to weigh in on
the Szigeti versions, don't have any idea if and how they are
obtainable. Always leaned towards Milstein and Szeryng meself, and
Heifetz deserves a listening. Hilary Hahn is a comer....looking
forward to hearing more of her. she has truly impressed some friends
of mine in the biz with the unaffectedness of her playing
style.
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ruthann
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(10/11/00 11:59:35 am)
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Bach Sonatas and Partitas
That Hilary Hahn CD is lovely.
Another is David Garrett (when in doubt, double the consonants). I
have a CD he made at the tender age of 16 with maybe only one of the
Partitas, but the tone and the exquisite shape of each note are
noteworthy.
cello_suttonr@hotmail.com
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Toscha
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(10/11/00 2:19:42 pm)
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Bach Sonatas and Partitas
What do you mean by "non-linear"
recording?
Anyway, Szeryng's first "Odyssey" was reissued on
CD back in the early 1990s on import CBS label, but it disappeard
from catalogue shortly after. I recall seeing it in Virgin Megastore
in Vancouver about a year or so ago, so it may be still available
outside of the U.S. It is very different from the more well-known DG
recording (somewhat brisker, as well as fresher, at the same time
slightly less organized).
I really like Hahn's Bach
recordings and looking forward to the completion (she has done 3 of
them, but not the other 3 yet). D minor Allemande is trifle too slow
for my taste, but others are superb. Her bow control in the Chaconne
must be heard to be believed.
I also like first 2 recordings
of Yehudi Menuhin (1930s, mid-1950s). He may not have been as
"clean" as Szeryng of Hahn, but his warm, noble and gutsy
interpretation always appealed to me greatly. His teacher George
Enescu recorded the whole cycle as well, when he was somewhat past
his prime. Enescu clearly sounds like Menuhin's precursor in many
ways, despite some small and not-so-small intonation and other
technical mishaps.
Forgotten but absolutely marvellous
recording worth mentioning is the version played by Johanna Martzy.
Her approach is right in between Szeryng's intellectualism and
Menuhin's radiant warmth. In fact she has quite a bit of both. Her
tone is gorgeous, a bit like Hahn, but even more silken and intense
and her chordal playing is sonorous. It is available in Japan and
France.
Other recordings I like have been already mentioned
(Heifetz, Milstein, Grumiaux and Szeryng), so I will not comment
here. I agree with others totally about those players.
Gidon
Kremer and Paul Zukovsky also recorded the cycle in somewhat
idiosyncratic manner.
Toscha
Edited by: Toscha
at: 10/11/00 2:19:42 pm
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String4tetCellist
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(10/11/00 6:31:40 pm)
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Menuhin/Zuke
I really love Menuhin's playing...is
his Bach too emotional (if the answer is yes, I'll go out and buy it
sooner than if the answer is no!!)? And Zukofsky---what do you mean
by idiosyncratic? I've heard about his playing, but never actually
heard it.
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Toscha
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(10/12/00 11:06:38 am)
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Menuhin/Zuke
Menuhin's recordings, especially the
first one has plenty of emotion, but never in bad taste or excess.
His total involvement to music is impressive. The second version has
more maturity and mellowness, at the same time some technical
inconsistancy creeps in here and there.
I don't remember a
whole alot about Zukovsky's recording. I have not heard it for a
while, but if I recall correctly, he took some unusual tempi and
interesting vibrato usages.
Toscha
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