Bach , Partitas

Bach's Partita No.6 in E minor, BWV 830 in Tatiana Nikolayeva's execution is a best work of J.S.Bach that I have ever listened. There are a lot of Bach's works, performed by T.Nikolayeva in the Global Network, but the Partitas are absent

After a highly successful series of concerts in Russia, Tatiana Nikolayeva won in 1950 1st prize at Leipzig's Bach festival for her performance of Bach's clavier works (1950)….

Tatiana Nikolayeva (Piano, Arranger)

There are a lot of Bach's works, performed by T.Nikolayeva in the Global Network, but the Partitas are absent

Listeners familiar with other recordings in Masaaki Suzuki's ongoing traversal of Bach's solo keyboard works may find his performances of the Partitas somewhat of an anomaly. For instance, the sharply delineated juxtapositions of tempos that made his Fantasias and Fugues program so thrilling (type Q3840 in Search Reviews) are nowhere to be heard here. The interpretive agenda this time is much subtler and decidedly more introverted.

Since 1822 the Royal Academy of Music has inspired generations of musicians to connect, collaborate and create. This recording of Bach Partitas continues this mission, reuniting renowned harpsichordist and conductor Trevor Pinnock with students from the Royal Academy of Music and The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory in Toronto. Following the success of Goldberg Variations (arr. for small orchestra by Józef Koffler), the Principal of the Academy, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood commissioned ‘re-imaginings’ of three of Bach’s most celebrated keyboard Partitas for the same scoring, by alumnus composer Thomas Oehler. The creative challenge – to bring a fresh perspective to some of Bach’s most elegant resourceful and refined keyboard writing – pays off in the hands of wonderfully talented musicians, and reveals how Oehler’s faithful response to Bach’s score allows the music to glow as brightly as ever.

Nikolayeva was one of the great pianists of the twentieth century… The greatest Bach player of her generation…Nikolayeva will be fondly remembered through her public appearances and many recordings.

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There are a lot of Bach's works, performed by T.Nikolayeva in the Global Network, but the Partitas are absent

Murray Perahia's Bach recordings are low-key, somewhat in the vein suggested by Bach's modest use of the words "Clavier-Übung," keyboard exercise, to describe the partitas played here in their published form. There is none of the eccentricity of Glenn Gould and none of the hard monumentality of András Schiff. Perahia is content to be straightforward and simple, choosing his points of emphasis with care. At first his playing, like Bach's title, seems too modest, but soon you realize that for sheer clarity in polyphonic textures he is unexcelled.