Harpsichord Partitas of J.S. Bach
Sun, 25 May
|Église St-André
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.
Heure et lieu
25 May 2025, 20:00 – 21:30
Église St-André, 9 Pl. Saint-André, 13650 Meyrargues, 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!