Blog: ChordStrike

J.S. Bach published his collected Partitas in 1731. He was 46 years old and had been the cantor at Leipzig's Thomaskirche for eight years. He had already composed two of the most important choral works; the St. Matthew and St. John passions. Bach probably attached significance to keyboard works by publishing them as his Opus #1, and they've come to be appreciated as the pinnacle of a form that was soon to fall out of fashion, in favor of other frameworks such as the sonata. In late August ECM New Series put out a live recording of the [...]