Word: partitas
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...Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke. The music had an eerie, almost macabre aura, heighte at one point when Kremer played against a passage that he had taped earlier and that was being beamed into the hall over loudspeakers. But Kremer's interpretations of two unaccompanied works by Bach-the Partita No. 1 in B-minor and, as an encore, the fiendishly difficult Chaconne-were the biggest surprise. This was Bach done in a robust, free style that damned scholarship and gave the music continuous life and excitement...
Lucile Clotfelter, pianist, in recital. Bach: Partita in C Minor; Schumann: Carnaval. Free. Friday, March...
Silverstein played Bach's Second Partita for solo violin, one of the rare pieces for unaccompanied violin. The difficulty of rendering harmonies and melodies simultaneously on the violin's four strings scares most composers away. Bach surmounted this limitation with an ingenious mixture of broken chords and double stops. He could thus create the illusion of a many-voiced instrument--he even wrote a convincing three-part fugue for solo violin...
...This partita demands considerable sustained energy; the violin is never at rest. Long passages of uniform rhythmic figures challenge the performer's musicianship...
...might well have been retitled 26 Variations since Rachmaninoff omitted variations 15-18, 20 and 21 to squeeze the work onto two sides of a single 78 r.p.m. record. There are the myriad piano transcriptions that Rachmaninoff wrote for recital encores, notably the Prelude from Bach's Violin Partita in E and the Scherzo from Men delssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. There is the finest recording ever made of Schumann's Carnaval, astonishingly warm and realistic in sound quality despite its 1929 vintage. Rachmaninoff the conductor is also represented, leading the Philadelphia in effective...