Christian Zacharias is recognized as a world-class pianist, conductor, and musical thinker, known for his integrity, individuality, and deep musical understanding.
Recording & Production
MDG recordings are produced in the natural acoustics of specially chosen concert halls, avoiding artificial reverberation, sound filters, or limiters.
Compositional Technique
The structure of Bach's suites combined rule-observance and freedom, with a specified sequence of dances like Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Gigue, each with particular rhythmic and formal requirements.
Composer Biography
Johann Sebastian Bach, while leading the musical establishment at the Cöthen court, also composed many keyboard works to maintain his reputation as a keyboard virtuoso and teacher, and for his gifted sons.
Composition History
Bach's Partitas, a third set of suites, were published between 1726 and 1731, first separately and then as the first part of his Clavierübung.
Compositional Technique
Bach's keyboard suites were likely modeled on French lines, as Louis XIV had elevated dance as a constituent element of his absolute rule, influencing European music.
Recording & Production
MDG aims for genuine reproduction with precise depth gradation, original dynamics, and natural tone colors to give each work its musically appropriate spatial dimension.
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