J.S. Bach: Partitas, BWV 825-830 on Lute-Harpsichord / Rübsam

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
November 18, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Sebastian Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Wolfgang Rubsam
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 18, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421964645
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96464
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    2. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    3. III. Corrente

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    4. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    5. V. Minuet I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    6. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    7. I. Sinfonia

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    8. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    9. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    10. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    11. V. Rondeaux

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    12. VI. Capriccio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    13. I. Fantasia

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    14. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    15. III. Corrente

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    16. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    17. V. Burlesca

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    18. VI. Scherzo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    19. VII. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    20. I. Ouverture

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    21. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    22. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    23. IV. Aria

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    24. V. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    25. VI. Menuet

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    26. VII. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    27. I. Praeambulum

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    28. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    29. III. Corrente

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    30. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    31. V. Tempo di minuetto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    32. VI. Passepied

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    33. VII. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    34. I. Toccata

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    35. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    36. III. Corrente

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    37. IV. Air

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    38. V. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    39. VI. Tempo di Gavotta

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    40. VII. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam


Playwright Luise Gottsched, née Kulmus, in 1732 wrote a letter to her future husband, the writer Johann Christoph Gottsched: ‘The keyboard pieces sent over by Bach… are as difficult as they are beautiful. Even after playing them ten times, they still seem new to me.’ A few years later polymath and Bach’s former pupil Lorenz Christoph Mizler offered the following advice regarding these Clavier-Übung I partitas: ‘Anyone who has difficulties with keyboard fingering will find it difficult to learn the keyboard pieces written by the famous Mr. Bach in Leipzig’.

The name Sinfonia for the first movement in the Partita in C minor is redolent of opening cantata movements and the dotted rhythm of a French overture. The Grave adagio however, is not followed by the fugal fast section you would expect here. This approach was carried out more consistently and stylistically in the Partita in D major, although there the fast section approaches the form of a concerto. Instead, the Grave adagio of the Partita in C minor is followed by a sonata-like movement with an arabesque effect in the upper voice, followed by a lively fugato. As a result, the piece appears in three parts. In contrast, the opening Fantasia in the Partita in A minor is more akin to an invention, showing similarities with the opening section of the second English Suite of the same key. Moreover, since the 17th century, the distinction between the terms ‘Praeludium’ and ‘Praeambulum’ was insignificant. Yet Bach’s delicately sculpted Praeludium in the B flat major Partita, is stylistically very different from the concerto-like Praeambulum of the Partita in G major. Lastly, the Toccata in the Partita in E minor offers rhapsodic-improvisatory sections framing a fugue after the style of Froberg, whose works for keyboard instruments must have been known to Bach.