Harbison / Koh- Bach & Beyond Part 3
American violinist Jennifer Koh's Bach & Beyond Part 3 concludes her critically acclaimed series of recordings based on her groundbreaking, multi-season recital series of the same name that The New York Times has called "indispensable." Koh, "a virtuoso with quirky and wonderful ideas" (San Francisco Chronicle), again pairs two of J.S. Bach's landmark Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin with Bach-inspired 20th- and 21st-century works. On this series-finale album, Bach's florid and fanciful Sonata No. 2 in A minor and Sonata No. 3 in C major, celebrated for it's colossal Fuga movement, frame Luciano Berio's expressive, chaconne-like Sequenza VIII and Pulitzer Prize winner John Harbison's alluring For Violin Alone, a dance suite inspired by Bach's partitas, written for Koh (a world-premiere recording).
Tracklist:
- Violin Sonata No. 2 In A Minor, Bwv 1003: I. Grave
- Violin Sonata No. 2 In A Minor, Bwv 1003: II. Fuga
- Violin Sonata No. 2 In A Minor, Bwv 1003: III. Andante
- Violin Sonata No. 2 In A Minor, Bwv 1003: IV. Allegro
- Sequenza No. 7 For Solo Violin
- For Violin Alone: I. Ground
- For Violin Alone: II. Dance I
- For Violin Alone: III. Air
- For Violin Alone: IV. March
- For Violin Alone: V. Dance II
- For Violin Alone: VI. Duet
- For Violin Alone: VII. Epilogue
- Violin Sonata No. 3 In C Major, Bwv 1005: I. Adagio
- Violin Sonata No. 3 In C Major, Bwv 1005: II. Fuga
- Violin Sonata No. 3 In C Major, Bwv 1005: III. Largo
- Violin Sonata No. 3 In C Major, Bwv 1005: IV. Allegro Assai
American violinist Jennifer Koh's Bach & Beyond Part 3 concludes her critically acclaimed series of recordings based on her groundbreaking, multi-season recital series of the same name that The New York Times has called "indispensable." Koh, "a virtuoso with quirky and wonderful ideas" (San Francisco Chronicle), again pairs two of J.S. Bach's landmark Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin with Bach-inspired 20th- and 21st-century works. On this series-finale album, Bach's florid and fanciful Sonata No. 2 in A minor and Sonata No. 3 in C major, celebrated for it's colossal Fuga movement, frame Luciano Berio's expressive, chaconne-like Sequenza VIII and Pulitzer Prize winner John Harbison's alluring For Violin Alone, a dance suite inspired by Bach's partitas, written for Koh (a world-premiere recording).
Tracklist:
- Violin Sonata No. 2 In A Minor, Bwv 1003: I. Grave
- Violin Sonata No. 2 In A Minor, Bwv 1003: II. Fuga
- Violin Sonata No. 2 In A Minor, Bwv 1003: III. Andante
- Violin Sonata No. 2 In A Minor, Bwv 1003: IV. Allegro
- Sequenza No. 7 For Solo Violin
- For Violin Alone: I. Ground
- For Violin Alone: II. Dance I
- For Violin Alone: III. Air
- For Violin Alone: IV. March
- For Violin Alone: V. Dance II
- For Violin Alone: VI. Duet
- For Violin Alone: VII. Epilogue
- Violin Sonata No. 3 In C Major, Bwv 1005: I. Adagio
- Violin Sonata No. 3 In C Major, Bwv 1005: II. Fuga
- Violin Sonata No. 3 In C Major, Bwv 1005: III. Largo
- Violin Sonata No. 3 In C Major, Bwv 1005: IV. Allegro Assai