Description
A poem about the poverty and riches of the violin. A bit of wood, a few strings and a bow, yet unbelievable what it can be made to produce. The last three lines are about mankind’s enormous power of perception – about all that his heart is able to follow and understand. Grillparzer is confident about man’s capabilities in this respect. He does not speak about what is beyond him.
It is highly debatable whether Grillparzer (a contemporary of Beethoven and Schubert) knew Bach’s six works for solo violin. Nevertheless he manages in this poem, without actually intending to do so, to go right to their core. It seems as if Bach demands the extremes from the violin, even more than it is capable of. A great deal is not actually performable as written, such as much of the chordal writing. Violinists and musicologists have devoted gallons of ink and hundreds of pages to this and numerous other aspects of the performance practice of Bach’s solo violin writing: much more than Bach himself needed to write down his six sonatas and partitas.
All these writers, from the first Bach biographer Forkel, to Albert Schweitzer and the great contemporary Bach expert Christoph Wolf, are children of their time and attest over and over to their ‘understanding’, their ‘truth’. In doing so, these authors raise more questions about Bach’s enigmatic works for unaccompanied violin than they can provide answers for. And then they give answers preceded by ‘perhaps’, ‘possibly’, or on occasion, ‘probably’……
Additional information
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Recording date | April 1998 |
Mastering equiment | Sony digital Editor 3000 |
Mastering engineer | Jared Sacks |
Mixing console | Rens Heijnis Custom made |
Microphones | Bruel & Kjaer, Schoeps |
Recording format | PCM 44.1 |
Analog to digital converter | Prism 24 bit / Genex Recorder |
Recording location | Doopsgezinde Kerk Deventer, The Netherlands |
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Editing | Jared Sacks |
Recording engineer | jared Sacks |
Producer | Jonathan Freeman-attwood, Jared Sacls |
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Digital to analog converter | Sony |
Press reviews
Klassieke Zaken
(…) Vederlicht en speels, zodra het kan, introvert, bezonnen, ongehaast ook, maar zo vitaal dat er van saaiheid geen sprake is. Zij munt uit in een vlekkeloze intoinatie en perfecte beheersing van de dubbelgrepen. (…)
Haagse Courant
levendig spel van iemand die Bach goed in haar vingers heeft. Wat bij veel violisten in gezwoeg ontaard – vooral de talrijke dubbelgreep-passage- rolt er bij haar vrijwel moeiteloos it. (…)
Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine
Rachel Podger ërklart: “versucht man, ein Gleichgewicht zwischen drei dingen zu finden: der notierte Musik, dem instrument uns sich selbst”. Das hat sie gefunden in dieser formvollendeten, Feuer sprühenden, technisch ausgefeilten, tief lotenden Einspielung.
Audiophile Audition
The Weekly Australian (…) her playing is superb (…)
Gramophone
(…) an opportunity to hear her on her own (…) (…) her subtle phrasing, as in the B minor Corrente, with the fleetest of doubles, the cross-rhythms of her G minor Presto and, most strikingly, the sheer poetic feeling with which she imbues the initial Adagio of the G minor Sonata. She touches in cord lightly. (…) (…) Her D minor Giga is stunning. Altogether a most impressive and rewarding disc.
Jonas Magazine
(…) een artistieke en technische topprestatie van een veelbelovende violiste.
Memphis TN
she is making music under her hands (…) (…) There’s not a moment in these intricately plotted works that doesn’t shine with dedication and insight (…) (…) she plays for the empyrean.
BBC Music Magazine
(…) deeply considered performances, highly accomplished in technical terms, and full of musical insights. (…) (…) Her variety of touch and phrasing, lending richness to the implied harmonies of Bach’s lines, brings the disc to a satisfying conclusion.
Gramophone
Editor’s Choice
BBC Music Magazine
Gold Choice (…)
Klassiek Heute
eine blitzsaubere intonation (…)
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