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- noun Plural form of
partita .
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Examples
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Any given week, he says, he will play through all the sonatas and partitas.
Analog Gateways From a Digital Age Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011
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"Last year, I was lucky to play Bach's solo sonatas and partitas as part of Miller Theatre's lunchtime programs at Columbia University's Philosophy Hall," she says.
A Violinist on a Solo Mission Stuart Isacoff 2011
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Vladimir Ashkenazy's offers an effortlessly virtuosic reading of Bach's partitas, says Nicholas Kenyon
Bach: The Art of Fugue, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin – review 2010
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At times, he sounded like a demented player of Bach partitas gone all Philip Glass, with occasional hints of bluegrass and Eastern flavors.
Spoleto Italy: A Lone Violinist at the Teatro Romano - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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At times, he sounded like a demented player of Bach partitas gone all Philip Glass, with occasional hints of bluegrass and Eastern flavors.
Spoleto Italy: A Lone Violinist at the Teatro Romano - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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After a period of purism, pianists like András Schiff, Murray Perahia and Richard Goode are successfully reclaiming the music of Bach; it's amazing that as wide-ranging a player as Vladimir Ashkenazy has never tackled the wonderful partitas before.
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One hundred different works is entirely possible, but my suspicion is that if one work did come out ahead it would be the Chaconne from the second of Bach's unaccompanied violin partitas.
The Church of the Schubert C-Major Quintet Lisa Hirsch 2009
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I've seen this happen before in 2004 in a solo recital of Bach's solo violin sonatas and partitas given by Christian Tetzlaff.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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I've seen this happen before in 2004 in a solo recital of Bach's solo violin sonatas and partitas given by Christian Tetzlaff.
Noises Off 2006
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This year, he released his first studio recording since 2005, of Bach's Partitas No. 2, 3 and 4, and on this tour he will play varied programs featuring one of the partitas, Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata, a good dose of Chopin and in some places a Mozart sonata.
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