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Solo Chaconnes - Bach, Reger, Barth / Jennifer Koh

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Composer
BACH BARTH REGER
Artist
Jennifer Koh
Format
CD
Label
Cedille
Released
Jan 01, 2001
Catalog #
CDR 060
UPC
735131906029

About


Now here's imaginative and illuminating programming for you: Bach's D minor solo partita featuring its renowned Chaconne, followed by a pair of late-Romantic violin chaconnes loosely patterened after Bach's powerful model. I like the lightness of touch, sweetly singing tone, and intimate drama characterizing Jennifer Koh's superb reading of the Bach partita. Her sound is not huge and assertive in the manner of Gregory Fulkerson and Nathan Milstein's reference versions, yet Koh's rich palette of dynamics and articulations, together with her purposeful bass lines, add variety and color to the steady tempos she favors. These qualities allow Reger's craggy lines to unfold in an unpressured manner that both complements and contrasts to Michelle Makarski's starker, bigger-boned traversal on ECM.


Richard Barth (1850-1908) was a violinist in Brahms' circle who also conducted and taught. Koh makes a thoughtful and musicianly case for Barth's skillfully-crafted and well-sustained B minor Chaconne, a work more violinists should investigate. At least its attractions now are known to one grateful critic, who expects to return time and again to this winning, beautifully engineered disc.
--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allemanda 04:50
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allemanda
    Duration
    04:50
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Jennifer Koh
  2. 2 II. Corrente 02:48
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Corrente
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Jennifer Koh
  3. 3 II. Sarabanda 04:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Sarabanda
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Jennifer Koh
  4. 4 IV. Giga 04:14
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Giga
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Jennifer Koh
  5. 5 V. Ciaccona 15:25
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Ciaccona
    Duration
    15:25
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Jennifer Koh
  6. 6 Ciacona in B Minor for Violin, Op. 21 13:12
    Track
    6
    Title
    Ciacona in B Minor for Violin, Op. 21
    Duration
    13:12
    Composer
    Richard Barth
    Performer
    Jennifer Koh
  7. 7 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 117: No. 4 in G Minor, "Chaconne" 12:12
    Track
    7
    Title
    Preludes and Fugues, Op. 117: No. 4 in G Minor, "Chaconne"
    Duration
    12:12
    Composer
    Max Reger
    Performer
    Jennifer Koh