Artist: Fabio Biondi
Album: Bach: Sonatas & Partitas
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 88,2 kHz
Duration: 02:18:57
Total Tracks: 32
Total Size: 2,45 GB

Tracklist:

01. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: No. 1, Adagio (03:28)
02. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: No. 2, Fuga (Allegro) (05:14)
03. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: No. 3, Siciliana (02:44)
04. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: No. 4, Presto (03:51)
05. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: No. 1, Allemande (05:19)
06. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: No. 2, Double (02:55)
07. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: No. 3, Corrente (03:48)
08. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: No. 4, Double (03:50)
09. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: No. 5, Sarabande (03:44)
10. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: No. 6, Double (02:28)
11. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: No. 7, Bourrée (03:14)
12. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: No. 8, Double (03:51)
13. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: No. 1, Grave (04:06)
14. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: No. 2, Fuga (Allegro) (08:33)
15. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: No. 3, Andante (05:08)
16. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: No. 4, Allegro (05:13)
17. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: No. 1, Allemande (04:40)
18. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: No. 2, Corrente (02:29)
19. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: No. 3, Sarabande (03:52)
20. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: No. 4, Giga (04:03)
21. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: No. 5, Ciaccona (14:02)
22. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: No. 1, Adagio (04:10)
23. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: No. 2, Fuga (Alla breve) (11:30)
24. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: No. 3, Largo (02:51)
25. Fabio Biondi – Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: No. 4, Allegro assai (04:56)
26. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: No. 1, Preludio (03:51)
27. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: No. 2, Louré (04:48)
28. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: No. 3, Gavotte en rondeau (03:03)
29. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: No. 4, Menuet I (01:44)
30. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: No. 5, Menuet II (01:42)
31. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: No. 6, Bourrée (01:25)
32. Fabio Biondi – Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: No. 7, Gigue (02:10)

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Newly signed to the naïve label, violinist Fabio Biondi, the celebrated founder and director of Europa Galante, here presents his interpretation of one of the major peaks of the solo violin repertoire: the Sonatas and Partitas of J. S. Bach. For many years a passionate devotee of this Holy Grail of violinists, and having performed many of the works individually in the course of his career, Fabio Biondi is now, at the age of sixty, using his maturely ripened art to record the complete set for the very first time: it is the culmination of long and patient study, as well as of a process of personal development. For years Biondi was intimidated by Bach’s writing for solo violin: so intimate, yet so universal, so close to the essence of things – which the music often expresses through silence and pure, untranslateable sound – and so technically demanding as well.To reveal the music’s profound meaning, its vitality and contemporaneity, and to share his findings with others: this is what has impelled him to record this album. To complement his musical presentation, he asked Akira Mizubayashi, a Japanese writer of French novels permeated by a musical sensibility, for a newly written work with which to grace the booklet. Most listeners will be familiar with Bach’s double triptych of Sonatas and Partitas, without necessarily knowing them in detail. All the well-known landmarks are here – the famous Bourrée of the First Partita, the challenging Chaconne of the Second, the lively introductory Preludio and sprightly Gavotte en rondeau of the Third Partita. Fabio Biondi makes these thirty-two dances intensely present in his infinitely nuanced interpretation. He casts a radiant light on each piece, fully honouring its dance-like character while flexibly expanding its often polyphonic lines with poetic strokes of the violin bow. Without any superfluous embellishment, at a single breath his masterful playing sets ablaze the full spectrum of forms, textures and tempi, giving life to the music – the most natural life imaginable.