Bach: Complete Violin Sonatas & Partitas
Pablo Suarez Calero (violin), Manon Chauvin, Gabriel Diaz, Fran Braojos, Simon Millan, Marco Pannaria
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
- Pablo Suárez Calero
- Pablo Suárez Calero
- Pablo Suárez Calero, Manon Chauvin, Gabriel Díaz, Fran Braojos, Simón Millans, Marco Pannaría
- Pablo Suárez Calero, Manon Chauvin, Gabriel Díaz, Fran Braojos, Simón Millans, Marco Pannaría
- Pablo Suárez Calero, Manon Chauvin, Gabriel Díaz, Fran Braojos, Simón Millans, Marco Pannaría
- Pablo Suárez Calero
Awards and reviews
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.