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The Fifth Partita was “the worst Bach recording I’ve ever made. It was also the most pianistic. It was perhaps the one that the connoisseur of the piano would like best. It’s the one I like least because it’s least Bach, it’s least me vis-à-vis Bach in any case; it’s full of all sorts of dynamic hang-ups, it’s full of crescendi and diminuendi that have no part in the structure, in the skeleton of that music.” Serious or tongue-in-cheek, who can tell?
Bach: Partitas Nos. 5 & 6; Fugues in F-Sharp Minor and E Major
Released: 1957
- Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: I. Praeambulum
- Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: II. Allemande
- Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: III. Courante
- Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: IV. Sarabande
- Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: V. Tempo di Minuetto
- Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: VI. Passepied
- Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: VII. Gigue
- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Fugue in F-sharp minor, BWV 883
- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Fugue in E Major, BWV 878
- Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830: I. Toccata
- Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830: II. Allemande
- Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830: III. Courante
- Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830: IV. Air
- Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830: V. Sarabande
- Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830: VI. Tempo di Gavotta
- Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830: VII. Gigue
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