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Composed three centuries ago, Johann Sebastian Bach’s set of six works for solo violin stands as one of the holy grails of the instrument’s literature – perhaps the holiest. Now the great Austrian musician Thomas Zehetmair makes his own mark in the rich history of this music, revisiting the repertoire on period instruments.
Zehetmair is an extraordinary violinist and a consistently inquisitive and self-questioning artist. He has not only played the big concertos but has given close attention to chamber music and new repertory, and has also found an extra calling as a conductor, channeling this varied experience into his return to the formidable cornerstone of Bach’s solo masterpieces.
As a young man Zehetmair worked with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in his period ensemble, working with him to prepare for his first recording of the sonatas and partitas on a modern instrument. For this new recording, he draws out exquisite colours from two violins from Bach’s lifetime, both of them by masters in the German tradition, but there is nothing antiquarian in his approach – old instruments, for him, are tools with which to express a modern sensibility: alert, edgy, multivalent. His performance engages, too, with the superb acoustic of the priory church of St Gerold, in Austria where so many legendary ECM recordings have been made.
Peter Gülke, in his accompanying essay, refers to the “floating spirituality” of this music, and to how Bach here offers one side of a conversation with the performer, whom he leaves free to determine matters of dynamic shading, phrasing and bowing. Zehetmair brings vividness and intelligence to the conversation on a recording that, deeply steeped in the music and true, is at the same time powerfully original. © ECM New Series
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Sonata for Violin Solo No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Partita for Violin Solo No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Sonata for Violin Solo No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Partita for Violin Solo No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Sonata for Violin Solo No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Partita for Violin Solo No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Thomas Zehetmair, Baroque Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Hannelore Guittet, Editor, Balance Engineer - Christoph Stickel, Mastering Engineer
℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
Album review
Composed three centuries ago, Johann Sebastian Bach’s set of six works for solo violin stands as one of the holy grails of the instrument’s literature – perhaps the holiest. Now the great Austrian musician Thomas Zehetmair makes his own mark in the rich history of this music, revisiting the repertoire on period instruments.
Zehetmair is an extraordinary violinist and a consistently inquisitive and self-questioning artist. He has not only played the big concertos but has given close attention to chamber music and new repertory, and has also found an extra calling as a conductor, channeling this varied experience into his return to the formidable cornerstone of Bach’s solo masterpieces.
As a young man Zehetmair worked with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in his period ensemble, working with him to prepare for his first recording of the sonatas and partitas on a modern instrument. For this new recording, he draws out exquisite colours from two violins from Bach’s lifetime, both of them by masters in the German tradition, but there is nothing antiquarian in his approach – old instruments, for him, are tools with which to express a modern sensibility: alert, edgy, multivalent. His performance engages, too, with the superb acoustic of the priory church of St Gerold, in Austria where so many legendary ECM recordings have been made.
Peter Gülke, in his accompanying essay, refers to the “floating spirituality” of this music, and to how Bach here offers one side of a conversation with the performer, whom he leaves free to determine matters of dynamic shading, phrasing and bowing. Zehetmair brings vividness and intelligence to the conversation on a recording that, deeply steeped in the music and true, is at the same time powerfully original. © ECM New Series
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 31 track(s)
- Total length: 02:06:17
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Thomas Zehetmair
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Label: ECM New Series
- Area: Allemagne
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Baroque Music
© 2019 ECM Records GmbH ℗ 2019 ECM Records GmbH
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