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Hilary Hahn plays Bach: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Partita No. 1
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Track Listings
1 | Adagio 4:47 |
2 | Fuga (Allegro) 5:26 |
3 | Siciliana 3:31 |
4 | Presto 3:22 |
5 | 1. Allemande 7:30 |
6 | Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita for Violin Solo No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002 |
7 | 2. Double 4:12 |
8 | 3. Courante 3:42 |
9 | 4. Double (Presto) 3:31 |
10 | 5. Sarabande 4:02 |
11 | 6. Double 3:35 |
12 | 7. Tempo Di Bourreé 3:27 |
13 | 8. Double 3:15 |
14 | Johann Sebastian Bach - Sonata for Violin Solo No. 2 in a Minor, BWV 1003 |
15 | 1. Grave 4:51 |
16 | 2. Fuga 8:07 |
17 | 3. Andante 6:33 |
18 | 4. Allegro 5:50 |
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Hilary Hahn released her first album, Hilary Hahn Plays Bach, when she was 17 to great critical and popular success. Now 38, she completes her recording of the Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin with an album featuring the first partita and first and second sonatas. A three-time Grammy Award-winner, Hahn has released 12 albums on the Deutsche Grammophon label, five on Sony, and numerous other projects, including an Oscar-nominated movie soundtrack. This is Hahn's first album on Decca.
Product details
- Product Dimensions : 5.55 x 4.92 x 0.51 inches; 3.95 ounces
- Manufacturer : Decca
- Item model number : 0028948339549
- Original Release Date : 2018
- Date First Available : June 23, 2018
- Label : Decca
- ASIN : B07DVGXNLP
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #40,864 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #150 in Classical Sonatas
- #586 in Chamber Music (CDs & Vinyl)
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Among the other versions I own is Nathan Milstein’s earlier recording (he re-recorded them later in his career). This recording is often heralded as among the best ever recorded, which is why I purchased it. To my ears, it sounded a bit as if the young Milstein was struggling with the composer. Not in a technical way - he’s a virtuoso as much as anyone who can tackle these incredible compositions - but in terms of musicality and interpretation, I didn’t hear nearly as much lyricism and musicality as I do from Hilary Hahn (but obviously this is in contrast to those who champion Milstein’s versions). Her musicality is absolutely stunning. There is no hint of a struggle in her Bach - she seems to have immersed herself deeply inside this music and is a channel for the composer’s vision. Even so, one can still feel her love and her unique style when she plays Bach, but it never overshadows - only enhances.
A young classical violinist who I met at a bluegrass camp (she was there to learn how to fiddle) swore by Julia Fischer’s version as The Definitive interpretation and urged me to add it to my collection. I did so, and it’s certainly wonderful. I’ve listened to it many, many times. But I keep coming back to Hilary Hahn again and again. One thing that simply stuns me when I listen to Hahn’s playing is her intonation. I play several fretted instruments, where intonation is more a function of the instrument than the musician. It never ceases to amaze me how violinists can navigate lightning-fast passages that dance across the fingerboard and play every note with near-perfect intonation. Hilary Hahn is lauded for her intonation, and there are passages on her new recording that left my jaw agape at her fluidity, speed and articulation while maintaining what to my ears seemed like perfect intonation.
Chris Thile, the world-renowned mandolinist, was quoted in another review of Hilary Hahn’s new Bach recordings saying “When you hear her play, you’re hearing the music as clearly as you will ever hear it.” (He has also released a partial recording of these works that many in the mandolin world, me among them, are hoping will be completed someday. That he appended ‘Vol. 1’ to the album’s name gives us all reason for optimism.)
But these are all words. The only way to truly understand is to listen with your own ears. If you own Hilary Hahn’s first installment of these works, you should not expect this new release to sound as if it had been recorded contemporaneously with that earlier one. It sounds more mature, but the musicality and the lyricism that characterized her early recording is still there, now more complex and burnished with her greater maturity as an artist and a human on the Earth. It is a gift to anyone who listens to these amazing recordings.
[ As another reviewer noted, some of the CD pressings from Decca are flawed - the first copy of this CD that I received from Amazon had a skip right at the end of track 16, smack dab in the middle of the final note, leaving the listener a bit bewildered. Additionally the track names embedded on the CD are preceded by lengthy numeric sequences that appear on my CD player's display. This is an unfortunate mastering error for such a prestigious release. I ordered a replacement but was not optimistic that it wouldn't have the same problems as the first one. Fortunately the replacement copy did not skip at the end of track 16 !! (though the file name error was still present - a relatively minor nuisance).]
I believe experts among listeners and players alike will include H.H. among the finest of the performers of these works and I expected something better for her as well as for the listeners.
In a side note I add that I believe, that we, arguably, now have and have been having the pleasure of listening to the most musically diverse group of accomplished musicians playing and recording these works than of in any other time period previously that I am aware of.
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Die neue CD enthält die zuvor noch fehlenden zwei Sonaten Nr. 1 g-Moll und Nr. 2 a-Moll sowie die Partita Nr. 1 h-Moll. Die drei Sonaten sind alle viersätzig: auf einen langsamen Einleitungssatz folgt jeweils eine Fuge, danach ein weiterer langsamer Satz und schliesslich ein schneller Schlusssatz. Die a-Moll-Sonate ist deutlich ausgedehnter als die g-Moll Sonate (25 gegenüber 17 Minuten). In der g-Moll Sonate haben mich die grossartige Fuge und das wirblige Presto besonders beeindruckt. Die a-Moll-Sonate enthält u.a. ein sehr schönes, melodiöses Andante und ein abschliessendes Allegro, dessen pulsierende Sechzehntelbewegung immer wieder von energischen Zweiunddreissigstel-Paaren vorangetrieben wird.
Die Partiten haben einen anderen Charakter als die Sonaten: Es handelt sich bei ihnen um Suiten, um Folgen barocker Tänze. Die vier Standardtänze solcher Suiten sind Allemande, Courante, Sarabande und Gigue. Aber Bach wäre nicht Bach, würde er sich immer an dieses Schema halten: Er bezieht auch andere Tänze mit ein, etwa eine Gavotte oder ein Menuett. Für die Partita h-Moll auf unserer CD hat er anstelle einer Gigue eine temperamentvolle Bourrée komponiert. Und er gönnt uns zu jedem der vier Tänze im Anschluss an den eigentlichen Tanz jeweils ein "Supplément", ein sogenanntes "Double", das eine sehr freie Variation des ursprünglichen Tanzes ist.
Hilary Hahn bezaubert auch auf dieser Folge-CD mit ihrer makellosen Intonation, ihrer Stilsicherheit, je nach dem Charakter des einzelnen Satzes mit lyrischer Finesse oder aber temperamentvollem Einsatz. Die vielen Doppel- und Mehrfachgriffe, die auf der Violine oft nur arpeggierend ausgeführt werden können, meistert sie scheinbar mühelos. Sie hat uns mit diesem Album ein weiteres wunderbares Geschenk gemacht.
Es empfiehlt sich nicht unbedingt, das ganze Album am Stück zu hören, das kann zu einer Überforderung führen. Besser, man hört sich für den Anfang nur eines der Werke an, etwas später ein zweites, und entdeckt so den Reichtum dieser Werke nach und nach. Für den schnellen Konsum sind sie definitiv nicht geeignet. Es entspricht ja nicht unbedingt unseren Hörgewohnheiten, einer Violine allein zuzuhören, sondern meist wird sie von einem Tasten- oder Zupfinstrument begleitet, welches die Akkorde spielt. Aber wer sich genügend Zeit nimmt, wird immer wieder neue Schönheiten in Bachs Werken für Violine solo entdecken.