Bach G major partita -- 3 middle movements./Some Rachmaninov

[ahmedito]

Hi. My first posts in the audition room were the sarabande and corrente from the G major Partita. Here I post the Allamande, Tempo de Minuetta and Passepied. For best results, check out my other two posts with the sarabande and corrente and listen to them one after the other, cause they are from the same performance (well, exam, so I was pretty nervous). There are quite a few screwups and slips, but Id really love to hear what you think. The recording quality is very good, it was taken by pros at the school.

The 4th one is the first few minutes from Rachmaninov's little elegiac trio (not the big one). The people recording it had trouble with their computer, so this was all that was salvaged, just the presentation of the theme by the piano.


... hope to hear from you.

EDIT 6 July 2005: Rachmaninov file removed

[kelly_kelly]

I think that these movements were also done very well  . I was wondering, do you also have a recording of the Gigue from this partita? I am interested in learning this partita, and it would be nice to have a full recording.

[ahmedito]

Im very glad to get some feedback. I am very glad you like it. I have the whole partita recorded, but I really dont want to post the praeambulum or the gigue, because I feel that in the particular performance recorded here, they were not very good. The praeambulum was VERY rushed and somewhat dirty and in the middle of the gigue I had a memory lapse and had to stop and redo a section. I dont like posting recording with which I am not at least minimally satisfied. I really recomend Rosalyn Tureck's version of this. It is INCREDIBLE. Gould's is way too crazy for my taste. If you insist, I am playing this partita at a recital in a couple of weeks, along with 2 bach preludes and fugues, 3 shostakovich preludes and fugues and 4 Scarlatti sonatas. Ill see if I can get a good recording (since this is in Mexico, not at my school in Madrid, where they record all the recitals) and Ill post it if it comes out better in the concert.

Thanks for replying

[ahmedito]

Removed my Martinu posts and Rachmaninov posts because I'm afraid that the rest of my trio wouldnt like me posting these. Ill probably post them again in september when I see them again. Im on summer vacation now, and since each one of us is from a different corner of the world (south america, north america and europe, and our oboist in martinu is from asia) its kind of hard to contact them.