Johann Sebastian Bach, in these works, displayed a notable awareness of career success and public acclaim, favoring a more instrumentally-oriented, virtuosic style.
Performer Biography
Miku Nishimoto-Neubert, the pianist on this album, won 3rd prize (with no first prize awarded) at the prestigious Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1998.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in 2009 and 2010 at the Großer Konzertsaal Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, with Michael Grobe as Recording Supervision and Editing, and Hubert Haas as Producer.
Composition History
The works on this album were likely collated and prepared for publication in the late 1720s, coinciding with Bach's increased focus on instrumental composition after taking over the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig in 1729.
Compositional Technique
The 'Italianate' character in the slow middle movement of the Italian Concerto is evident in the seemingly endless, sensuously ornate melody unfolding above an inexorable, ostinato-like bass line.
Compositional Technique
The Partita in E minor, the most ambitious work in Bach's collection of Partitas, features a tripartite Toccata that contrasts improvisatory elements with a contrapuntal, three-part fugue.
Compositional Technique
The 'Concerto in the Italian Style' is characterized by an infectious liveliness and virtuosic flare, with themes drawing rhythmic drive from contrasting wide intervallic leaps with predominantly step-wise motives.
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