01.03.2014 - New Release VIOLIN SOLO Vol.7

  In her solo performances of Bach, Renate Eggebrecht pulls out every stop from a lifetime of experience both as an active musician and as an attentive observer of half a century in the cultivati-on of 'early music'. On the Troubadisc label she has presented many premier recordings and challenging programmes of major works for unaccompanied violin. And her understanding of 'historically infor-med performance practice' stands well apart from current tends and short-sighted ideologies. Her foremost concern is to let the music speak for itself from the natural flow inherent in its limitless inter-play of harmony, metre and counterpoint. Manic approaches that merely stress the beats of the bar are far removed from her way of thinking. Her playing brings out a compelling sense of linear flux, of intricate details in rich polyphonic textures, of feelings subtly yet lucidly articulated.
  In this music, mastery will not countenance superficialities. It does not reside in the requisite displays of virtuosity but in the music's intellectual and spiritual message, brought forth with consum-mate poise and controlled expression. The division into three CDs also symbolises the trinity of Christian holidays that underlies the entire cycle, as has been demonstrated in detail by the Bach scho-lar Helga Thoene.
  How to proceed after Bach? The conclusion, one might think, would have to be at once open-ended and fractured, more question than answer. Nothing could have better achieved this effect in atmosphere and bearing than Postludium II, written by the great contemporary Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov in 1981. Silvestrov is a musician who has always had one foot in the past and another in the future. Bach is followed by a dream of Bach ...
  This album demands to be listened to and understood as a holistic entity. It offers the possibi-lity of plunging into each of the three cycles of the Trinity, three self-contained worlds of unified anti-theses. It is an obeisance to the all-embracing musi-cal mind of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose timeless modernity speaks to us clearly and unmistakably from each and every phrase.

VIOLIN SOLO Vol. 7

Joh. Seb. BACH (1685 – 1750)
Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo
CD 1 Sonata No. 1 G minor, BWV 1001 Partita No. 1 B minor, BWV 1002
CD 2 Sonata No. 2 A minor, BWV 1003 Partita No. 2 D minor, BWV 1004
CD 3 Sonata No. 3 C major, BWV 1005 Partita No. 3 E major, BWV 1006

Valentin SILVESTROV (*1937)
CD 3 Postludium II (1981-82) for Violin solo

TRO-CD 01444