Partitas for Solo Violin

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Timo Korhonen

The Partitas for Solo Violin are a set of three works for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed around 1720. They are Baroque pieces that combine stylised dance movements with intricate polyphonic writing and high technical and expressive demands, and they form a central part of Bach's output for solo violin and of the Baroque violin repertoire.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: I. Allemande
    5:41
  2. 2.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: I. - Double
    3:07
  3. 3.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: II. Corrente
    4:23
  4. 4.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: II. - Double (Presto)
    4:31
  5. 5.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: III. Sarabande
    3:18
  6. 6.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: III. - Double
    2:16
  7. 7.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: IV. Tempo di Borea
    3:51
  8. 8.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: IV. - Double
    4:10
  9. 9.
    Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: I. Allemanda
    5:08
  10. 10.
    Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: II. Corrente
    2:39
  11. 11.
    Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: III. Sarabanda
    4:42
  12. 12.
    Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: IV. Giga
    4:45
  13. 13.
    Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciaccona
    13:49

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Partita no. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: I. Preludio
    4:26
  2. 3.
    Partita no. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: II. Loure
    4:07
  3. 4.
    Partita no. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: III. Gavotte en Rondeau
    3:28
  4. 5.
    Partita no. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: IV. Menuet I - V. Menuet II
    5:11
  5. 6.
    Partita no. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: VI. Bourrée
    1:46
  6. 7.
    Partita no. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: VII. Gigue
    2:10

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