Bach: Partitas - Chen

Pi-Hsien Chen (piano)

The “Clavierübung” (keyboard practice) … composed for Music-Lovers for the refreshment of their Spirits” - thus the complete edition of the six “Partitas” from 1731, was published by Bach at his own expense to establish as a keyboard composer. It is the culmination of the traditional suite with it’s canon of various dances by Italian and French models and transcends them becoming a German, contrapuntally reflected form. Chen plays two movements after the respective sarabandes (Partitas IV and VI). This is based on the research of Kenneth Gilbert, who argued that the previous reverse order has been practised due to printing at that time having regard to turning the pages. Pi-hsien Chen was born in Taiwan and studied with Hans Leygraf at the Musikhochschule Hannover, going on to take master classes with Tatjana Nikolajewa, Geza Anda, Wilhelm Kempff and Claudio Arrau. She won the first prize of the ARD-International-Piano-competition in Munich at the age of 21, later also of the Schoenberg in Rotterdam and of the Bach-Competition in Washington. She has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Zürich Tonhalle-Orchestra and almost all German Radio-Symphony-Orchestras. Bernard Haitink, Paul Sacher, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowsky, Hans Zender and Peter Eötvös are amongst the conductors she has performed with.

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