Thursday, October 21, 2021

L. BACH, J.S.: Partita #3 for Violin in E Major, BWV 1006 -- "Preludio"

L. BACH, J.S. (1685-1750)

Partita #3 for Violin in E Major, BWV 1006 -- "Preludio" (1720)
Hilary Hahn, violin
(3:41)

What a strange backwards journey I took in discovering Bach's solo violin partitas and sonatas.

When I was 15, I heard this work by Lukas Foss (1922-2009) called Phorion (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, cond. [10:04] ...

It was years later that I discovered the source!

Here's yet another version, by the virtuoso banjoist, Béla Fleck:

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