Bach & Beyond, Pt. 3
Jennifer Koh
Koh opens with Bach’s Second Sonata, and the musing character of the opening Grave is effective and affecting from the first notes, with beautiful, varied tone and fluid vibrato..It's a similar...
Bach & Beyond, Pt. 3
Jennifer Koh
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Koh opens with Bach’s Second Sonata, and the musing character of the opening Grave is effective and affecting from the first notes, with beautiful, varied tone and fluid vibrato..It's a similar...
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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 its 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).
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March 2021
Koh opens with Bach’s Second Sonata, and the musing character of the opening Grave is effective and affecting from the first notes, with beautiful, varied tone and fluid vibrato..It's a similar story of the marriage between technical certainty and musical imagination in the Third Sonata, where the long Fuga is even more impressive in its control, and the two slow movements…are played with an impeccable sense of style.
March/April 2021
I can pay Koh no greater compliment than to say that when she plays Bach, the world dissolves. That she has the intelligence and generosity to create a whole series of discs coupling these works with the music of our time adds layer upon layer of meaning to the way we listen and experience the music.