Johann Sebastian Bach (Remastered) Roberto Michelucci

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Sonata I per violino solo in sol minore BWV 1001:
• 1J.S. Bach: Sonata I per violino solo in sol minore BWV 1001: Adagio 04:35
• 2J.S. Bach: Sonata I per violino solo in sol minore BWV 1001: Fuga allegro 05:39
• 3J.S. Bach: Sonata I per violino solo in sol minore BWV 1001: Siciliana 03:15
• 4J.S. Bach: Sonata I per violino solo in sol minore BWV 1001: Presto 03:42
• Partita I per violino solo in si minore BWV 1002:
• 5J.S. Bach: Partita I per violino solo in si minore BWV 1002: Allemanda06:24
• 6J.S. Bach: Partita I per violino solo in si minore BWV 1002: Double02:36
• 7J.S. Bach: Partita I per violino solo in si minore BWV 1002: Corrente03:25
• 8J.S. Bach: Partita I per violino solo in si minore BWV 1002: Double presto03:40
• 9J.S. Bach: Partita I per violino solo in si minore BWV 1002: Sarabande04:03
• 10J.S. Bach: Partita I per violino solo in si minore BWV 1002: Double02:05
• 11J.S. Bach: Partita I per violino solo in si minore BWV 1002: Tempo di borea03:44
• 12J.S. Bach: Partita I per violino solo in si minore BWV 1002: Double03:11
• Total Runtime46:19

Info for Johann Sebastian Bach (Remastered)

With this record Foné is inaugurating a series of the complete recordings of the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach interpreted by the violinist Roberto Michelucci. Even if much of Bach's chamber music has been irredeemably lost making it impossible to follow the entire evolutionary arch of his style, the surviving works, nevertheless, give us an exact measure of the level of perfection that Bach reached in this musical genre. As do his compositions intended for other solo instruments, his Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin also attain peaks which will be difficult to superceed. At the end of the Seventeenth Century polyphonic writing for violin in Germany had already reached a high degree of accomplishment. According to contemporary witnesses, among whom Mattheson was a creditable musician in his own right, many German violinists distinguished themselves far and wide by way of the polyphonic character of their performances. Nikolaus Bruhns sat at the organ realizing, with the pedals, harmonic passages while simultaneously playing them on the violin. Another respected violinist, Nikolaus Struck, astounded Corelli during a stay in Rome in 1686 by playing double stops on the violin. Corelli, both surprised and amused, is said to have exclaimed: "I am called Archangel (Arcangelo), but you should be called Archdevil!". ....

Roberto Michelucci, violin

Digitally remastered

Roberto Michelucci
is well known all over the world. Many of his best interpretations arerecorded on Philips Lps with which he has won some of the highest awards. He often takes part in International Festivals and was the first Italian violinist to he invited in 1967 and 1968 by the Salzburger Festspiele to perform two Mozart Concertos. K.V. 219 and K.V. 211. The first

concert was filmed by the Austrian television and later transmitted by all the European televisions except Italy. His repertoire includes music from the baroque period to the modern. He presented L. Dallapiccola's two "Tartiniana" for violin and orchestra for the first time in Israel; the first performance of Busoni's violin concerto with the Orchestre Suisse Romande in Geneva; for the first time in Florence at the "Maggio Musicale Fiorentino" the following concertos: Prokofieff Op. 19, Schumann D minor, Mendelssohn D minor. High levelled critics like F. Abbiati (Milan), M. Mila (Turin), B. Gavoty (Paris), E. Moser (Lausanne). E. Muller-Moore (Geneva), J. Hawranek (Salzburg), H. Boehm (Jerusalem), C. Wilson (Edinburgh) have expressed their admiration for him. His records have won the following awards: "Grand Prix du Disque" for three years in Paris "Prix de la Critique Francaise" Paris "Golden Record" Tokio. He often takes part in Juries for international competitions. Now he is recording for Fone, concluding the six Bach-Solo Sonatas and Partitas.

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