Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Roberto Gerhard, Heinz Holliger, Brice Pauset
Performer: Ilya Gringolts
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Release: 2021
Size: 1.48 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Holliger: 3 Kleine Szenen
01. No. 1, Ciacconina
02. No. 2, Geisterklopfen
03. No. 3, Musette funèbre
Gerhard: Chaconne
04. I. Risoluto
05. II. Calmo con leggerezza
06. III. Allegro con fuoco
07. IV. Allegretto
08. V. Veloce
09. VI. Con riposo
10. VII. Allegro con brio
11. VIII. Adagietto
12. IX. Molto vivace, con impeto
13. X. Andante sostenuto
14. XI. Grazioso
15. XII. Allegro assai
Pauset: Kontrapartita
16. I. Preludio
Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (Excerpts)
17. I. Preludio
Pauset: Kontrapartita
18. II. Allemanda
Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002 (Excerpts)
19. I. Allemanda
Pauset: Kontrapartita
20. III. Corrente
Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002 (Excerpts)
21. III. Corrente
Pauset: Kontrapartita
22. IV. Sarabande
Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002 (Excerpts)
23. V. Sarabande
Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (Excerpts)
24. II. Loure
Pauset: Kontrapartita
25. V. Loure
26. VI. Giga
Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (Excerpts)
27. IV. Giga
Pauset: Kontrapartita
28. VII. Ciaccona
Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (Excerpts)
29. V. Ciaccona
Throughout his career, Ilya Gringolts has devoted himself to performing contemporary music as well as the great concert repertoire, while also developing a keen interest in historical performance practice. The focus of his latest recital disc is therefore quite logical: music of our own time and its inspiration: Johann Sebastian Bach. The album title is Ciaccona and besides Bach’s iconic composition, Gringolts plays a further two chaconnes – or three if one counts the Ciacconina which opens Heinz Holliger’s brief cycle, composed for Isabelle Faust in 2014. The Spanish composer Roberto Gerhard wrote his Chaconne using his own take on twelve-tone technique. In his introduction to the album, Gringolts describes its twelve movements as including ‘everything from chorale to ländler … probably the most Viennese music ever written by a Catalan.’ The disc closes with Kontrapartita by the French composer Brice Pauset, ‘a kind of through-the-looking- glass Bach partita’ to quote Gringolts once again. Pauset composed his work in 2008 – seven movements, each written with a particular movement from Bach’s partitas for solo violin in mind. For this work (and the interwoven movements by Bach) Gringolts has chosen to use a violin with a baroque setup, finding that the instrument seemed to respond to the ‘historically informed avant-garde’ of the writing.