Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble, Soloists from The Glenn Gould School, Trevor Pinnock
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 Jozef 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.
As is so often the case with arrangements of familiar repertoire, particularly canonical Germanic tonal music, a change of performing media reveals the works anew...Oehler’s craft reveals the impact of historically informed performance, through careful phrasing and a string sound which eschews continuous vibrato.
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