Bach: Sonatas & Partitas For Violin Solo / C. Tetzlaff

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Label
Haenssler Classic
Release Date
March 15, 2007
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN
    • PERFORMER
      Christian Tetzlaff
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 15, 2007
    • UPC
      4010276018643
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      98250
    • LABEL
      Haenssler Classic
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    2. II. Fuga. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    3. III. Siciliana

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    4. IV. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    5. I. Allemanda

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    6. II. Double

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    7. III. Corrente

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    8. IV. Double. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    9. V. Sarabanda

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    10. VI. Double

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    11. VII. Tempo di Bourree

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    12. VIII. Double

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    13. I. Grave

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    14. II. Fuga

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    15. III. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    16. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    17. I. Allemanda

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    18. II. Corrente

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    19. III. Sarabanda

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    20. IV. Giga

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    21. V. Ciaccona

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    22. I. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    23. II. Fuga

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    24. III. Largo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    25. IV. Allegro assai

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    26. I. Preludio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    27. II. Loure

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    28. III. Gavotte en Rondeau

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    29. IV. Menuet I

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    30. V. Menuet II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    31. VI. Bourree

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff

    32. VII. Giga

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff




An imaginative player offers an outstanding reading of the violin's 'old testament'

Christian Tetzlaff, always one of the most thoughtful, imaginative violinists, has obviously found Bach’s solo works a stimulating and rewarding challenge. Technically, he’s most impressive: using a modern bow, he can achieve, with each phrase, the kind of subtle give and take that’s normally the preserve of the best Baroque violinists. His chord playing, too, shows wonderful control; in the more densely polyphonic pieces – the Chaconne and the fugues in the three sonatas – it seems there’s often little choice between aggressive accentuation and rhythmic distortion caused by spreading the chords. Tetzlaff, however, manages to avoid both pitfalls, with varied arpeggiation that never fails to take account of the music’s rhythmic requirements.

The performances have a remarkable air of spontaneity, the result of a pervasive rubato especially notable in the ornamented opening movements of the first two sonatas, and in the freer sections of the Chaconne. There’s a sense of line and balance that ensures that each departure from metronomic regularity sounds entirely natural, unlocking the music’s expressive potential. I felt this even when, in a few movements in the partitas, the dance character suggests a more regular, metrical pulse. Apart from this, it’s notable how Tetzlaff realises the virtuosity of Bach’s violin writing – the moto perpetuo finales of the sonatas sound truly thrilling, full of temperament and fire. Even if you’ve fallen for Julia Fischer’s beautifully stylish, polished accounts, or the expressive richness of Richard Tognetti’s gut-strung Guadagnini, I’d urge you to investigate this outstanding set.

-- Duncan Druce, Gramophone [8/2007]