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Music : Bach: Partitas Nos. 2-4
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Bach: Partitas Nos. 2-4 from: Sony Classics List Price: $16.97 CD-Charts Price: $14.99 You Save: $1.98 (12%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886972269726 Label: Sony Classics Manufacturer: Sony Classics Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Classics Release Date: March 18, 2008 Studio: Sony Classics Sales Rank: 7512 MPN: 722697 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Probably, one of the best PartitasPerahia is, with no doubt, one of the greatest performer of Bach's music. Absolutely recommended. Rating: - Pure JoyOver the past decade or so, Murray Perahia has developed into one of the finest Bach pianists around. Perhaps one needs to suffer to appreciate Bach fully--surely this great pianist has had his share of suffering due to the debilitating hand injury which has kept him from the concert hall and recording studios in recent years. In any case, just as his English Suites, Keyboard Concerti, and Goldberg Variations set new standards in this repertoire, this recently released disc of Partitas 2, 3 and 4 joins the select list of desert-island Bach recordings. To put it simply, these are the most consistently imaginative renditions of these demanding works I have heard. Perahia's clarity of articulation and rhythmic control rival Gould's, while ... Read More: Rating: - Played With Striking Keyboard Style, Energy, And Abundant Invention!The six partitas BWV 825-830, the third and last collection of suites, are certainly Bach's most mature achievement in this sphere. The opening movements on their own are sufficient to demonstrate Bach's fertile imagination. Murray Perahia has chosen to perform the second, third and forth partitas, and his approach conveys a stylistic maturity, structural energy, abundant invention, and a strikingly auspicious style that is almost unequalled in accomplishment. He retains the traditional framework of the German suite in shaping the four regular movements, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Gigue, yet takes on magnificent liberties with the form. In the second Partita, prefaced by a Sinfonia in three sections, Perahia begins the first by ... Read More: Rating: - superb!I have yet to hear any of Murray Perahia's playing, whether live or recorded, which was anything less than superbly musical. His profound musicality is always what one hears, no matter the technical demands of a piece. His technique, though astonishing, is there to serve the music, not wow the listener. This cd is filled with illuminating insights and many, many moments of incredible beauty. Rating:  - Too polite, as usualPerahia's Bach playing is always elegant and refined, but too polite and softhearted to my taste. Perfect for Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte, but not for Bach's partitas. Also on this CD, Perahia's playing lacks the necessary vigor and spirit; it's all a bit boring and predictable. If Perhaia had some of the passion and spirit of Martha Argerich... (listen to her interpretation of the 2nd partita, and you'll know what I mean: vigorous and joyful playing that keeps you on the edge of your seat). For imaginative, vivid and warm interpretations of the complete Bach partitas, I strongly recommend Rosalyn Tureck. |
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