Fugue is soooooooo hard to play in this way. Everyone (including me) just pounds it to pieces. But not Isabelle Faust... She plays like angles do. I am crying now.
Lovely indeed, but after listening to at least a half-dozen of recordings on baroque instruments of these incomparable sonatas and partitas, I much prefer the set recorded by Sigiswald Kuijken in the 1970's. He keeps the music moving by not trying to do too much with it and pays particular attention to the perfromance indications, as sparce as the are. For instance, I feel that the tempo of the Adagio is too slow; the music drags. The Largo, which means "sustained" is simply not for a lot of notes. Kuijken gives each work as a whole a particular character, then each movement within the work also it's own character. The A minor sonata, for example, is marked "Grave", and gives the Adagio a Rhapsodic, yet somewhat eighty character. The fugue, then is taken at a somewhat slow tempo with also somewhat of a weighty feel. The Andante movement is also taken at a somewhat slow tempo, with two note to a bow slurs. It's gorgeous even at a slow tempo. and he's an absolute MASTER with the baroque bow, ending most notes on the melody after playing multi-stops.
This is eternal. Isabelle and J S in combination glitter, without being glamorous.
An extraordinary and wonderful exponent of Bach, attaining a welcome balance of the baroque and modern styles of violin playing. Procopius
Fugue is soooooooo hard to play in this way.
Everyone (including me) just pounds it to pieces.
But not Isabelle Faust... She plays like angles do.
I am crying now.
N'est-elle pas la meilleure ? En tout cas, un timbre à nul autre pareil et tellement de passion !
Lovely indeed, but after listening to at least a half-dozen of recordings on baroque instruments of these incomparable sonatas and partitas, I much prefer the set recorded by Sigiswald Kuijken in the 1970's. He keeps the music moving by not trying to do too much with it and pays particular attention to the perfromance indications, as sparce as the are. For instance, I feel that the tempo of the Adagio is too slow; the music drags. The Largo, which means "sustained" is simply not for a lot of notes. Kuijken gives each work as a whole a particular character, then each movement within the work also it's own character. The A minor sonata, for example, is marked "Grave", and gives the Adagio a Rhapsodic, yet somewhat eighty character. The fugue, then is taken at a somewhat slow tempo with also somewhat of a weighty feel. The Andante movement is also taken at a somewhat slow tempo, with two note to a bow slurs. It's gorgeous even at a slow tempo. and he's an absolute MASTER with the baroque bow, ending most notes on the melody after playing multi-stops.