Name: BACH // 6 sonatas for violin & piano BWV 1014-1019
SKU: LDV 36.7
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2 CD | LDV 36.7 | total duration: 50'27 | release date: 04/05/2018

BACH // 6 sonatas for violin & piano BWV 1014-1019

Nicolas Dautricourt,

One of the most original features of the Sonatas for violin and piano BWV 1014-1019 is the imagination shown by Johann Sebastian Bach in harmonic, melodic and contrapuntal terms. The pianist’s right hand and the violin must constantly answer each other, while the basso continuo is entrusted to the pianist’s left hand. The exceptional degree of invention to be found in this musical dialogue – a felicitous harmony between melody and counterpoint – irremediably excludes any form of excessive soliloquising.

2018, Bach, Nicolas Dautricourt, Violin

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Description

Bach’s music can adapt to practically any instrument. The source of sonority is relatively insignificant, since what counts for the composer is the philosophical and intellectual content: the form, the tonal structure and the melodic contours of the work are of greater importance than the instrument per se.

Do we not see in the master of Leipzig a universal icon, a supreme instance through which, in a sense, all music has come into being? In the face of such immensity, it was therefore appropriate to observe a certain simplicity: this disc is anything but a ‘historical’ recording. It does not claim to be the depository of any particular learning and bears the seal of no particular heritage.

The performers play for the listeners of their time. On the one hand, there is Nicolas Dautricourt’s 1713 Stradivarius and, on the other, Juho Pohjonen’s modern Steinway & Sons D.

To listen to this double album is to immerse oneself in a world of abundance and to gain an insight into how such controlled music can still provoke such great emotion, thanks to the talents of these two magnificent artists.

CD 1

Aria Bete aber auch dabei (Cantate Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115) 6’21
Sonata BWV 1014 in B minor / Adagio 4’29
Sonata BWV 1014 in B minor / Allegro 2’51
Sonata BWV 1014 in B minor / Andante 3’39
Sonata BWV 1014 in B minor / Allegro 3’04
Sonata BWV 1015 in A major / Andante 2’44
Sonata BWV 1015 in A major / Allegro 3’07
Sonata BWV 1015 in A major / Andante un poco 2’17
Sonata BWV 1015 in A major /Presto 4’04
Sonata BWV 1016 in E major / Adagio 5’08
Sonata BWV 1016 in E major / Allegro 2’49
Sonata BWV 1016 in E major / Adagio ma non tanto 5’53
Sonata BWV 1016 in E major / Allegro 3’34

CD 2

Sonata BWV 1017 in C minor / Largo 4’23
Sonata BWV 1017 in C minor / Allegro 4’23
Sonata BWV 1017 in C minor / Adagio 3’26
Sonata BWV 1017 in C minor / Allegro 4’21
Sonata BWV 1018 in F minor / Largo 7’32
Sonata BWV 1018 in F minor / Allegro 4’20
Sonata BWV 1018 in F minor / Adagio 4’04
Sonata BWV 1018 in F minor / Vivace 2’11
Sonata BWV 1019 in G major / Allegro 3’37
Sonata BWV 1019 in G major / Largo 2’00
Sonata BWV 1019 in G major / Allegro 4’29
Sonata BWV 1019 in G major / Adagio 3’40
Sonata BWV 1019 in G major / Allegro 3’01

Aria (orchestral suite n°3, BWV 1068) 9’16

The holder of the Prix Georges Enesco of the SACEM, voted ‘ADAMI Classical Discovery of the Year’ at the Midem in Cannes, Nicolas Dautricourt is unquestionably ‘one of the most brilliant and engaging French violinists of his generation’.

Having been invited to become a member of the prestigious Chamber Music Society Two at Lincoln Center in New York, he now appears in the leading international venues (Washington Kennedy Center, New York Alice Tully Hall, London Wigmore Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall, Teatro Nacional de Belém, Copenhagen Concert Hall, Boston Gardner Museum, Ongakudo Hall Kanazawa, Sendai City Hall) and in France (Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Cité de la Musique, Musée d’Orsay, Arsenal de Metz, Opéra du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Provence) and is a guest with numerous orchestras (Orchestre National de France, Detroit Symphony, Sinfonia Varsovia, Orchestre Symphonique du Québec, Mexico Philharmonic, Belgrade Philharmonic, Kiev Philharmonic, NHK Chamber Orchestra, Kanazawa Ensemble, Scala di Milano Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonie de Lorraine, Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, Orchestre d’Auvergne) under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, Paavo Järvi, François-Xavier Roth, Fabien Gabel, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Michael Francis, Kazuki Yamada, Yuri Bashmet, Dennis Russell Davies, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Jacques Mercier and Mark Foster, among others. He has also played at such leading festivals as the Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest, Music@Menlo, Ravinia, Pärnu, Davos, Sintra, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, and La Folle Journée in Nantes and Tokyo.

A prizewinner of several international competitions (Wieniawski, Lipizer, Belgrade), Nicolas Dautricourt plays a magnificent instrument by Antonio Stradivarius dated 1713, the ‘Château Fombrauge’, generously loaned to him by Bernard Magrez.