J. S. Bach: Sonata BWV 1001 + Partita BWV 1004 Miguel Rincón

• 1 Adagio 04:10
• 2 Fuga 05:57
• 3 Siciliana 04:00
• 4 Presto 05:14
• 5 Allemande 05:54
• 6 Courante 02:58
• 7 Sarabanda 04:11
• 8 Giga 05:11
• 9 Ciaccona 14:42
• Total Runtime 52:17

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The young Spanish lute virtuoso Miguel Rincón, who already worked with some of most prominent characters in the field of Early Music, presents for his solo debut album two of his own transcriptions of the works for violin solo by J.S. Bach. Such arrangements were quite common at Bachs time, and Bach himself was well-acquainted with the lute. Miguel Rincón explores the tonal and emotional potential of his instrument to its full extent. He creates a richness and complexity of sound that one is not familiar with from the original violin version. Here we are being introduced to a new, very personal and at the same time virtuosic and powerful Bach, ready for the stage, which in the final Chaconne reaches a fulminant point of culmination, offhandedly upstaging quite a few rock guitar heroes of the last decades.

“The playing here is richly colourful and varied as you would expect, with contrasts of tonality and dynamic emphasised through a constantly changing touch. There is a certain amount of noise from the fingerboard, with the little squeaks and creaks all part of the physical nature of this kind of performing...but Rincón’s musical intensity is balanced against a technical ease and sense of flow which sweeps away most of these minor and highly subsidiary blemishes.” (MusicWeb International)

Miguel Rincón, baroque lute

Miguel Rincón
was born in 1979 and today is one of the most active lute players in Spain. he plays early plucked instruments such as the renaissance lute, baroque lute, baroque guitar, vihuela, chitarrone and archlute, is a member of eminent ensembles, and is active in early music both through historical performance prac- tice and improvisation. he studied plucked instruments at the Manuel castillo Music conservatory with Juan carlos Rivera, where he received top marks and graduated with honors. he later received a master’s degree, studying with Xavier Díaz Latorre at Esmuc (The Music conservatory of cataluña). he currently attends Zürich conserva- tory (Zürcher hochschule der Künste) to receive lessons with Eduardo Eguëz.

he has attended numerous master classes with prominent lute players such as Rolf Lislevand, Robert Barto, Paul O’Dette, and hopkinson Smith, and has received chamber music coaching from Vittorio Ghielmi, Paolo Pandolfo, and Gabriel Garrido, among others. he has performed at numerous festivals and theaters all around the world, including the Mozart Festival in Galicia, Festival cervantino (Mexico), Estella Early Music Week (País vasco), Early Music Week in Barcelona, aranjuez, Utrecht, Festival de chiquitos (Bolivia), Froville le Romain (France), Luxemburg Theater, National auditorium (Madrid), chopin Music conservatory (Warsaw), Milán, París, Tou- louse, Lyon, Venice, and Buenos aires (Manzana de las Luces). he appears on numerous recordings such as Les violes du ciel et de l’enfer, with the academia del Piacere (Fahmi alqhai), Arde el furor intrépido with the Seville Baroque Orchestra (Diego Fasolis, conductor), and a recording of albinoni’s Sonata da chiesa Op. 5 with the ensemble ad corda (alessandro ciccolini, Francesco Varone).

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