Bach: Complete Partitas


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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

Mozart - Flute and Harp Concerto in C, K. 299 [complete]


The Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C major, K. 299 is a piece by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for flute, harp, and orchestra. It is one of only two true double concertos that he wrote, as well as the only piece of music that Mozart wrote that contains the harp. The piece is one of the most popular such concerti in the repertoire, as well as often being found on recordings dedicated otherwise to either one of its featured instruments. The concerto was written in April 1778 by Mozart during his sojourn to Paris for the Court of Guînes. It was commissioned (although never paid for) from Mozart, by the flautist Duke of Guînes, Adrien-Louis de Bonnières, and his harpist daughter who was taking composition lessons from the composer. The soloists in the piece will sometimes play with the orchestra, and at other times perform as a duo while the orchestra is resting. The flute and harp alternate having the melody and accompanying lines. In some passages, they also create counterpoint with just each other. Mozart concertos are standard in how they move harmonically, as well as that they adhere to the three-movement form of fast--slow--fast:

I. Allegro

The orchestra states both themes. The first is immediately present, and the second is introduced by the horn. Both themes fall under the conventional sonata form. The soli then re-work the already present themes.

I. Andantino

The short phrases in this movement are introduced by the strings, and become lyrically extended. This further develops into variations on the theme. The cadenza in this movement leads to a coda, where the orchestra and soli focus on the lyrical theme.

III. Rondeau — Allegro

The harmonic form is: A--B--C--D--C--B--{cadenza}--A(coda). Some music theorists feel that this is actually more of an arch than a typical rondo form, because music from the A section is still audible in the C and D sections.

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Goldberg Variations Complete (J.S. Bach BWV 988), with score, Kimiko Ishizaka piano


Download the Goldberg Variations (mp3, wav): kimikoishizaka.bandcamp.com/album/j-s-bach-open-goldberg-variations-bwv-988-piano
Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, The English Patient, Captain Fantastic, Before Sunrise, and Solaris are just a few films to have featured Bachs Goldberg Variations.

«Counterpoint passes back and forth between the hands in a conversational and judiciously balanced manner, while a strong lyrical inlpulse informs the cross-handed variations rapid, bravura passages (Vars 5 and 19, for example). Ishizakas restrained and concentrated way with slow minor-key variations (Vars 15,21 and 25) lets the musics agonising harmonic tension speak softly for itself.»
— Jed Distler, Gramophone Magazine

«She has the fleet fingers to speed through the virtuoso variations with compelling clarity and the sensitivity to probe the dramatic potential of the slower, more profound numbers, pleasurably aided by her consistently lovely tone.»
— Robert Schulslaper, Issue 36:1 (Sept/Oct 2012), Fanfare Magazine

«The sound quality of the recording is top notch»
«In fact, the albums an audiophile gem.»
— Reviewed by Christopher Lim in The Business Times, July 20, 2012.

J.S. Bachs «Goldberg Variations», BWV 988, recorded by Kimiko Ishizaka on a Bösendorfer grand piano, with score following provided by the iPad app from MuseScore. For more information on this project, see www.opengoldbergvariations.org

0:00 Aria
5:00 Variation 1
6:57 Variation 2
9:03 Variation 3
11:00 Variation 4
12:10 Variation 5
13:44 Variation 6
15:22 Variation 7
17:35 Variation 8
19:31 Variation 9
21:38 Variation 10
23:24 Variation 11
25:33 Variation 12
27:49 Variation 13
32:04 Variation 14
34:20 Variation 15
38:54 Variation 16 «Ouverture»
42:03 Variation 17
43:47 Variation 18
45:37 Variation 19
47:03 Variation 20
49:08 Variation 21
53:02 Variation 22
54:36 Variation 23
56:55 Variation 24
59:41 Variation 25 («Black Pearl» — slideshow)
1:09:01 Variation 26
1:11:03 Variation 27
1:12:55 Variation 28
1:15:20 Variation 29
1:17:30 Variation 30 «Quodlibet»
1:19:32 Aria da Capo

New album from Kimiko Ishizaka featuring her own compositions: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeWVBqJrTS7fVZoVreWC0LN3G2EePa2op

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Alexandra Wenk trainiert für die Schwimm-WM


www.sg-swm.de Am 24. Juli 2015 beginnen die Schwimm-Weltmeisterschaften in Kazan in Russland. Mit dabei ist Alexandra Wenk von der SG Stadtwerke München. Die 20-jährige ist eine von 38 deutschen Athleten, die für Kazan nominiert wurden. Sie hofft, zumindest in ein Semifinale oder Finale einzuziehen, um die tolle Wettkampf-Stimmung zu erleben.

Bei den Vorbereitungen in der Olympia-Schwimmhalle absolviert sie momentan beinahe täglich einen Strecke von fünf bis sechs Kilometern. Perfekt betreut fühlt sie sich dabei von ihrem Verein, der SG Stadtwerke München.

Die Schwimm-WM in Kazan findet von 24. Juli bis 9. August 2015 statt. Alexandra Wenk geht über 100m Delfin, 4 mal 200m Kraulstaffel und 4 mal 100m Lagenstaffel an den Start. Ihr nächstes Ziel ist die Qualifikation für die olympischen Spiele 2016 in Rio de Janeiro in Brasilien.

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Bach - Mass in B minor BWV 232 - Van Veldhoven | Netherlands Bach Society


Sublime, extreme and all-embracing… only superlatives will do to describe Bach’s Mass in B minor, the Hohe Messe, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach. In between an awe-inspiring Kyrie and the jubilant final Dona nobis pacem, there are nine completely unique arias and duets, fourteen impressive ensemble sections for four, five, six and even eight voices, a broad spectrum of instrumental solos, and an incredible variety of styles.

Recorded for the project All of Bach on December 15th 2016 at the Grote Kerk, Naarden. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB or consider donating bit.ly/2uZuMj5.

For the interview with musicians from the Netherlands Bach Society on the Mass in B minor go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU9596vrep8
For more information on BWV 232 and this production go to allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-232/

All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society / Nederlandse Bachvereniging, offering high-quality film recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and her guest musicians. Visit our free online treasury for more videos and background material allofbach.com/en/. For concert dates and further information go to www.bachvereniging.nl/nederlandse-bachvereniging.

Jos van Veldhoven, conductor
Hana Blažíková, soprano 1
Anna Reinhold, soprano 2
David Erler, alto
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Peter Harvey, bass