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Harpsichord Partitas of J.S. Bach

Sat, 24 May

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Cabriès

While displaying an immense variety of writing styles, highly developed construction and counterpoint, these suites also display an intense expressive palette, from the most disarmed tenderness to the most poignant distress.

Harpsichord Partitas of J.S. Bach
Harpsichord Partitas of J.S. Bach

Heure et lieu

24 May 2025, 20:00 – 21:30

Cabriès, 2010 Rue des Écoles, 13480 Cabriès, France

À propos de l'événement

Program recorded in August 2024.


Among the masterpieces of keyboard literature are the four opuses published by Johann Sebastian Bach under the modest title of Clavierübung (keyboard exercises). They are, however, the pinnacle of his art, pushing back the boundaries of the genres covered in the three volumes for harpsichord (the third for organ): I. Partitas, II. Concerto Italien and Ouverture à la française and IV. Goldberg Variations. The first of these collections, comprising six suites or partitas, is the very first opus that Bach, then aged 46, commissioned to be engraved, which reveals the importance he attached to these works!

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