Enescu plays Bach - Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2011
- "La perfection, qui passionne tant de gens, ne m'intéresse pas. Ce qui importe, en art, c'est de vibrer soi-même et de faire vibrer les autres."
George Enescu
Bach - Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
[1] Allemanda
[2] Corrente 3:41
[3] Sarabanda 6:17
[4] Giga 9:23
[5] Chaconna 13:40
George Enescu (violin)
Recorded: 1948-1949 - Hudba
"Perfection, that fascinates so many people, does not interest me. What matters in art is to vibrate oneself and make the others vibrate."
George Enescu
Just finished listening to the partita. Enescu's playing and the mind state it keeps you in is like sailing in a large stable ship under the command of a seasoned captain, who maintains control over the raging waves and the blowing winds - all the while keeping you in suspense grounded on hope and surprisingly 'tranquility' of acceptance.
The nuance is amazing! Especially in the Chaconne! Never heard the Chaconne accented and nuanced like that.
Maybe the best interpretation for Chaccone despit of quality of suport. Enescu fill line soul of Bach music which is as we know almost hermetical. Thanks a lot for this registration!
F-antastic. He was a 'triatholon' great - violin, piano and composing - adding to that, he was a great teacher, and a musician-humanist-romantic. Please read Menuhin's reminisences in his autobiography, 'Unfinished Journey' . He was also devoted to his wife, and missed her for years after she passed away.
The story about his phenomenal memory: someone asked him, why he does not know by memory the last 'volume' of Bach's compositions - and he said: I did not have that volume in possession!
Another story is: Maruice Ravel ran over to his apt one morning, to play through his new (and only) sonata for violin and piano. Enescu took the violin part and Ravel at the piano, and they both played from the manuscript. Then Enescu said: it is very beautiful, let's play it again! And Enescu closed his manuscript, and played the whole sonata from MEMORY!
Another one: When Yehudi Menuhin went to Enescu to learn violin playing, Enescu asked him to play the Chaconne - and liked it so much that he asked him to play it again a few times more - while it was thunderous and raging in rain outside!
There are messages on Life from such music and musicians and our emotional state/being during listening. It is a pity that in 'day to day' life, we never seem to be able to operate from that standpoint of purity, love and adoration for the (human) mind.
You must understand that Enescu was in his late sixties and suffering from severe arthritis. In his prime, Enescu was, in my opinion, the greatest recorded violinist. But this recording catches him out of his prime during a very low point in his life.
But despite the questionable playing I still feel as if this is a supreme interpretation. If only it were made a few years earlier!
It's still my favorite recording by far, despite his poor technique :P And the same goes for all of his solo Bach recordings. But when I listen to his playing of Corelli's La Folia, I really wish we had more of him in his prime. He was such a great violinist.
Quelqu'un a demandé à un des grands violonistes du monde, quel était le plus grand. La réponse a été: "Heifetz, mais Enesco est pareillement bon, la douceur du son en sus." Ce qui fait du Maître, le pus grand violoniste de l'époque. Le Maître avait l'habitude de dire "Il ne faut pas rabaisser Bach à son niveau (celui de l'interprète), mais essayer de s'élever au sien." Ce n'est plus le cas de os jours, car les interprètes, incapable de ce faire, prétendent "moderniser" Bach "l'épousseter", et autres fadaises.
Ne vous en déplaise, quand vous parlez du Maître Enesco, faites-le en francais, car c'était sa langue préférée. Je ne sais même pas s'il parlait/aimait l'anglais.
I won the complete set of these six Sonatas and Partitas. My all-time favorite "Romantic-style"(non-HIP) recordings. Simply heavenly. An unequaled artistic vision. Lucy van Dael is probably my favorite HIP(baroque violin) recordings.
Enescu is the best, like Bach himself, like God himself!!!!
No!!!! God is unique and has created the rest of the world. I agree, Enescu was to J. S. Bach, the interpret, but not to J. S. Bach, the composer. As I was a child, he used to pay us visits, but without the dreaded Maruka.
Beg your pardon! It has to be: Enescu was EQUAL to J.-S. Bach".
That's how a Genius plays violin.
This is the music a violinist practices for a lifetime as a way to measure his or her success at mastering every technical tool known to the instrument. If the fiddler is, then, not so self-satisfied, he or she recognizes along the way that there is no solace in that mastery, that none of it shows the path to the heart, and that only having a heart and revealing it, permitting it to be revealed through the music, can lead to being able to console others.
elfpix wow, very beautifully said, very poetic :)
BRILLIANTLY and beautifully said, worthy of the music itself. at least ALMOST. :)
His tempo and phrasing is incredible
I think that many people do not realize that this is a recording from the fifties. No stereo, there is an obvious feeling of closure of the sound, which is spatial, has to do with the studio or recording conditions, and not the age of the maestro. I hear WARMTH, more than anything in this interpretation of the great Ciaccone.
Those who recorded Bach's Partitas and Sonatas with Maestro Georges Enesco kept them almost 15 years before publishing them. I remember buying them by RIM in München.
Same man, I don't really know why, D minor make me feel ^^
you are right he is so bachian
okey so ... is it the recording or his actual intonation is SO DIFFERENT ?
Sim
Compared to today's fabulous concert violinists, this is a tad below par. In 1948 (the year this was recorded), there were dozens of violinists who played much, much better than this.