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Bach: Complete Violin Sonatas & Partitas

Pablo Suarez Calero (violin), Manon Chauvin, Gabriel Diaz, Fran Braojos, Simon Millan, Marco Pannaria

Bach: Complete Violin Sonatas & Partitas
there is something that makes this recording special. As far as I know it is the only complete recording of the Sonatas and Partitas to incorporate the ‘hidden’ vocal glosses, in the form of...

Bach: Complete Violin Sonatas & Partitas

Pablo Suarez Calero (violin), Manon Chauvin, Gabriel Diaz, Fran Braojos, Simon Millan, Marco Pannaria

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there is something that makes this recording special. As far as I know it is the only complete recording of the Sonatas and Partitas to incorporate the ‘hidden’ vocal glosses, in the form of...

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"The Spanish violinist Pablo Suarez presents the complete collection of the Six sonatas and partitas for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach founded on one of his most profound, ambitious and personal approaches, Sei Solo. Sei Solo is a proposal including not only the performance of the composer’s original music, but also the contributions offered by the researcher Helga Thoene which are based on the discovery of the possible existence, among some of the movements, of chorales by the composer himself. For this, she has counted on the collaboration of the soprano Manon Chauvin, the countertenor Gabriel Diaz, the tenor Fran Braojos, the bass Simon Millan and the cellist Marco Pannaria. The delicate textures of the vocal registers, combined with the solemnity of the cello, represent a perfect complement for this original purpose. With this idea, the Madrid-born musician introduces himself into the most intimate, human, introspective and sentimental language of the German composer’s personality, grounding his interpretation on a wide spectrum of colours, essences, nuances and timbres provided both by the placement of gut strings in the instrument used (a Nicola Gagliano violin dated 1780 in Naples) and by the natural acoustics of the environment selected for this project (the interior of the Church of Nuestra Senora de la Paz in the town of Gojar in Granada). The sonority, which has been created taking into consideration characteristics quite similar to those that could be found in 18th century instruments, finds its particular personality in parameters such as luminosity, clarity, definition and direction, through a performance in which excellent technical mastery, together with marvellous control in the development of the music, allow harmonic, melodic, affective and sensorial gestures to predominate at all times."

Contents and tracklist

I.Adagio
Track length3:52
II. Fugue
Track length5:06
III. Sicilienne
Track length3:09
IV. Presto
Track length3:41
I. Allemande
Track length6:46
I. Double
Track length3:04
II. Corrente
Track length3:08
II. Double
Track length3:38
V. Sarabande
Track length3:51
VI. Double
Track length2:22
VII. Tempo di Borea
Track length3:38
VIII. Double
Track length3:34
I. Grave
Track length3:50
II. Fugue
Track length8:39
III. Andante
Track length5:00
IV. Allegro
Track length6:37
I. Allemande
Track length4:20
II. Corrente
Track length2:28
III. Sarabande
Track length3:38
IV. Giga
Track length4:01
V. Ciaccona
Track length14:40
I. Adagio
Track length3:56
II. Fugue
Track length11:40
III. Largo
Track length3:33
IV. Allegro
Track length5:09
I. Prelude
Track length3:41
II. Loure
Track length4:36
III. Gavotte en rondeau
Track length2:56
IV. Menuet I
Track length1:33
V. Menuet II
Track length1:26
VI. Bourée
Track length1:22
VII. Gigue
Track length1:52

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September 2023

there is something that makes this recording special. As far as I know it is the only complete recording of the Sonatas and Partitas to incorporate the ‘hidden’ vocal glosses, in the form of accompanying fragments of Lutheran chorale melodies, that the German musicologist Helge Thoene detected in the music in her analysis of the works in the 1990s.
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