{"id":250,"date":"2011-08-07T12:48:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2011-08-07T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T16:48:22","slug":"day-eleven-sonate-e-partite-ii-cd-1-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Day Eleven: Sonate E Partite II (CD 1-11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bach-Complete-Works-155-Box\/dp\/B000HRME5U\/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1311823878&amp;sr=1-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/img\/BachEdition11.jpg\" alt=\"Bach Edition 11\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>I really don&#8217;t have anything different to say about these <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonatas_and_partitas_for_solo_violin_%28Bach%29\">compositions<\/a>, which are sonatas and partitas for solo violin, from what I wrote yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>I <i>can<\/i> say that of the three pieces on this CD, my favorite is Partita No. 3 in E major (BWV 1006). It begins (&#8220;Preludio&#8221;) with a bouncy, clever movement that immediately draws me in. It sounds like the visual equivalent of watching a ballet dancer pirouette.<\/p>\n<p>The third movement (&#8220;Gavotte &#038; Rondeau&#8221;) is a famous melody, very baroque. Very Bach. Take a look:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l_AnTA2yDgA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely everyone has heard that piece of music before, but didn&#8217;t know what it was called. <\/p>\n<p>The fifth movement (&#8220;Bourree&#8221;) from Partita No. 3 in E major is also very nice. Snappy. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not enough variation between yesterday&#8217;s CD and today&#8217;s for my tastes. It&#8217;s like listening to Swedish heavy-metal guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yngwie_Malmsteen\">Yngwie Malmsteen<\/a> shred for two hours straight.<\/p>\n<p>Not my cup o&#8217; tea.<\/p>\n<p>These are the compositions on today&#8217;s CD (all performed by the gifted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loddingkonsert.se\/artists.asp?id=126\">Mark Lubotsky<\/a>):<br \/>\nBWV 1004 &#8211; 1720<br \/>\nBWV 1005 &#8211; 1720<br \/>\nBWV 1006 &#8211; 1720<br \/>\nBach was 35 when he composed all of the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t have anything different to say about these compositions, which are sonatas and partitas for solo violin, from what I wrote yesterday. I can say that of the three pieces on this CD, my favorite is Partita No. 3 in E major (BWV 1006). It begins (&#8220;Preludio&#8221;) with a bouncy, clever movement that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73,129,132,133,134,136,131,137,135,112,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}