J.S. Bach
Violinsonaten
Michelle Makarski
Keith Jarrett
€ 29,90 (2CD)
Johann Sebastian Bach began work on his six sonatas for violin and
harpsichord (BWV 1014-19) while at the courts of Weimar and Köthen and
returned to the compositions over several decades, revising and
polishing until the years before his death. C.P.E. Bach would later
pronounce the pieces “among the best works of my dear father.”
Prefiguring the classic duo sonata, violin and keyboard meet on equal
terms in this music, and both are challenged by Bach’s compositional
demands.
Violinist Michelle Makarski invited Keith Jarrett to join her in
exploring these pieces, the two musicians – friends since Jarrett’s
“Bridge of Light” recording – meeting frequently over a two year period,
simply for the pleasure of playing the Sonatas. The idea of documenting
them came late in the process: in November 2010 Makarski and Jarrett
recorded the sonatas at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New
York. This is Jarrett’s first ‘classical’ recording since his Mozart
Piano Concertos discs of 1996, and only the second occasion on which he
has recorded Bach on piano rather than harpsichord.
Keith Jarrett’s earlier Bach recordings include “Das Wohltemperierte
Klavier” (Buch 1, 1987; Buch II, 1990), “Goldberg Variations” (1989), “3
Sonaten für Viola da Gamba und Cembalo” (1991, with Kim Kashkashian),
and “The French Suites” (1991). Michelle Makarski’s New Series
recordings include the recital discs “Caoine” (1995, with music of Bach,
Biber, Hartke, Reger and Rochberg), “Elegio per un’ombra” (1999, with
music of Tartini, Dallapiccola, Berio, Carter and Petrassi) and “To Be
Sung On The Water” (2004, with music of Tartini and Crockett).
ECM Records
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