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Record Review: JS Bach Keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830 with Joanna MacGregor and Andrew McGregor

JS Bach Keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830 with Joanna MacGregor and Andrew McGregor

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, JS Bach Keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830 with Joanna MacGregor and Andrew McGregor

Joanna MacGregor chooses her favourite recording of JS Bach Keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830.

In Building a Library Joanna MacGregor chooses her favourite recording of JS Bach's Keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830, and Ben Gernon shares his favourite new releases.

Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.

2.00 pm
Ben Gernon shares a clutch of exciting new releases.

3.00 pm
Building a Library

Joanna MacGregor chooses her favourite recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830.

With his six Keyboard Partitas Bach, in his 40s and at the height of his powers, was determined to impress. They are the longest, most complex and technically challenging of Bach’s keyboard suites. And unlike the English and French suites, they are also the only set he published. In these multi-movement, multi-dimensional works Bach seems to have wanted to best and outdo all the competition and with their unparalleled richness, variety and invention he seems to have achieved just that. 

Originally for harpsichord, the Partitas have perhaps more often been recorded on the modern piano and by many of the great pianists of our and previous times.

Joanna's choice:
Andras Schiff (piano)
Decca 4758234

3.45 pm
Record of the Week: Andrew’s top pick.

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