Pasqualini, Matteo
Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavierbung I - Sechs Partiten
With the first instalment of the Clavier-Bach turns the keyboard into an authorial manifesto. The six Partitas emerged as a personal canon entrusted to print, in a Leipzig where manuscript circulation still prevailed, and they trace a journey in which the French suite becomes a laboratory of form, affect and style. From their ever-changing portals - Praeludium, Sinfonia, Fantasia, Ouverture, Praeambulum, Toccata - to the disciplined eloquence of the dances, this set restores Bachs highest notion of exercise: the education of taste, the cultivation of judgement, and a sovereign balance between inheritance and invention. It is, at once, an intellectual self-portrait, an atlas of European keyboard civilisation, and one of the clearest poetic declarations of the eighteenth century.