Bach - The Sonatas - Partitas For Unacccompanied Violin, Sergiu Luca (1977) [FLAC]

Release Date 1977


Sergio Luca

Profile:
Romanian-born American violinist (1943 - 2010), who founded several important chamber music festivals and ensembles, he was professor of violin at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music since 1983.

In the notes to his historically-informed readings (Nonesuch 73030), Sergiu Luca not only derides Telmanyi's bow as grotesque but goes on to dispel as myth any attempt to treat Bach's writing as chordal. Rather, he considers the overlay of notes to represent linear movement of independent voices which the player must differentiate through the quality of his tone. Repeated notes shown as interlocking groupings, thus suggesting their independence - autograph score Luca's view is supported by Bach's autograph – in several passages he writes repeated notes not continuously (as efficient notation would suggest) but with different groupings, so as to suggest that they not be played uniformly but rather as part of interlocking discrete lines. (Thus, in the staves in the illustration at right the upper beams and flags might signify notes to be played on the open E string, while the others would be fingered on the A string so as to subtly differentiate their sound.)


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ABOUT THIS ALBUM
One of the great violinists of the 20th century, Sergiu Luca revolutionized Baroque concert practice with his performances of these pieces on an original period violin. Those historic performances are captured on this double album, in which Luca makes that which “had plunged generations of fiddlers in paroxysms of visible and audible torment” sound “musical and natural” (Washington Post).