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Js Bach: Bach 21

Elisaveta Blumina (piano)

Js Bach: Bach 21
She is an accomplished musician, both technically and emotionally, plays with abandon, and uninhibitedly shows off the full effects of her chosen instrument—here a restored 1901 Steinway D found...

Js Bach: Bach 21

Elisaveta Blumina (piano)

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She is an accomplished musician, both technically and emotionally, plays with abandon, and uninhibitedly shows off the full effects of her chosen instrument—here a restored 1901 Steinway D found...

About

Elisaveta Blumina presents a Bach of dance in a very personal piano album inspired by the now legendary Steinway concert grand "Manfred Burki" from 1901. Albert Einstein already knew that if you are looking for the world formula, you will find it in Johann Sebastian Bach. This is true not only for the Art of the Fugue, the Goldberg Variations or the St.Matthew Passion but for all his works.

Elisaveta Blumina actually wanted to become a ballerina - but much to her chagrin at the time, she became a towering teenager - despite great talent. She nevertheless retained her unerring sense of momentum and rhythm as a pianist, and this audibly benefits the suites and partitas on this new production.

For even if Bach creates highly artificial gems out of the traditional dance forms, Blumina still lets us feel the swing that makes the individual movements pulsate.

The pictures attached to the lavishly designed booklet on this newly recorded SACD shows the colourful creative power of this versatile artist.

Contents and tracklist

Fantasie for Piano in C Minor, BWV 906
Track length4:54
No. 1, Sinfonia - Grave adagio
Track length4:36
No. 2, Allemande
Track length4:48
No. 3, Courante
Track length2:21
No. 4, Sarabande
Track length3:31
No. 5, Rondeaux
Track length3:00
No. 6, Capriccio
Track length3:52
No. 1, Allemande
Track length2:47
No. 2, Courante
Track length1:35
No. 3, Sarabande
Track length4:35
No. 4, Gavotte
Track length1:10
No. 5, Polonaise
Track length1:30
No. 6, Menuet
Track length1:10
No. 7, Bourrée
Track length1:40
No. 8, Gigue
Track length2:33
No. 1, Prélude
Track length8:03
No. 2, Allemande
Track length4:26
No. 3, Courante
Track length2:26
No. 4, Sarabande
Track length4:23
No. 5, Gavotte I, II
Track length4:54
No. 6, Gigue
Track length3:19

Awards and reviews

May/June 2022

She is an accomplished musician, both technically and emotionally, plays with abandon, and uninhibitedly shows off the full effects of her chosen instrument—here a restored 1901 Steinway D found at the Marienmünster Abbey—well suited to Bach’s music for its nuanced capabilities, its subdued sound, and its plethora of colors. Recorded in superb sound, this is a very fine release indeed.
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