Bach: Sonatas & Partitas David Grimal

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001:
• 1 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: I. Adagio 03:49
• 2 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: II. Fuga. Allegro 05:21
• 3 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: III. Siciliana 02:44
• 4 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: IV. Presto 03:44
• Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002:
• 5 Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: I. Allemande 05:07
• 6 Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: II. Double 03:01
• 7 Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: III. Courante 02:49
• 8 Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: IV. Double 03:56
• 9 Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: V. Sarabande 03:17
• 10 Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: VI. Double 02:18
• 11 Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: VII. Tempo di Bourrée 03:23
• 12 Bach: Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: VIII. Double 03:19
• Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003:
• 13 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: I. Grave 04:03
• 14 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: II. Fuga 07:30
• 15 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: III. Andante 04:52
• 16 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: IV. Allegro 04:18
• Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004:
• 17 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: I. Allemande 04:35
• 18 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: II. Courante 02:48
• 19 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: III. Sarabande 03:55
• 20 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: IV. Gigue 04:21
• 21 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne 13:20
• Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005:
• 22 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: I. Adagio 03:34
• 23 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: II. Fuga (Alla breve) 10:10
• 24 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: III. Largo 03:06
• 25 Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: IV. Allegro assai 03:43
• Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006:
• 26 Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: I. Preludio 03:37
• 27 Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: II. Loure 03:49
• 28 Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: III. Gavotte en Rondeau 02:53
• 29 Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: IV. Menuet I 01:46
• 30 Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: V. Menuet II 02:33
• 31 Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: VI. Bourée 01:41
• 32 Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: VII. Gigue 02:05
• Total Runtime 02:11:27

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Composed in 1720, the ‘violinist’s bible’ has undergone a thousand and one transformations since then.

David Grimal tackles the supreme masterpiece of the solo violin repertory for the third time, with his Stradivarius strung with pure gut strings and a Baroque bow by Nicolas Pierre Tourte (1740).

David Grimal, violin

David Grimal
He started to play the violin at the age of five. Afterwards he did his postgraduate studies with Regis Pasquier. He also enriched and deepened his musicality by studying with such personalities as Philipp Hirschhorn, Shlomo Mintz, Isaac Stern.

David Grimal pursues an international career as a solo violinist, which has seen him performing regularly over the past twenty years in the world’s leading classical music venues and with prestigious orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Berliner Symphoniker, New Japan Philharmonic, Orchestre de l’Opera de Lyon, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia, under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach, Michel Plasson, Michael Schønwandt, Peter Csaba, Heinrich Schiff, Lawrence Foster, Emmanuel Krivine, Mikhail Pletnev, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Péter Eötvös, Andris Nelsons, Christian Arming, among others

He has been the honoured recipient of dedicated works by various composers, among whom are counted Marc-André Dalbavie, Brice Pauset, Thierry Escaich, Jean-François Zygel, Alexander Gasparov, Victor Kissine, Fuminori Tanada, Richard Dubugnon, Ivan Fedele, Philippe Harrowing, Anders Hillborg, Oscar Bianchi, Guillaume Connesson and Frederic Verrièresearch In addition, David Grimal has for many years taken part in recitals with George Pludermacher.

They have toured worldwide and their collaborative discography, which features works by Ravel, Debussy, Bartok, Franck, Strauss, Enescu, Szymanovski and Janacek, has reaped countless awards (Strad Selection, 5 star British Broadcasting Corporation Magazine, Arte Sélection, Télérama’s ƒƒƒƒ, etc). David Grimal has recorded Schubert’s Sonatines with Valery Afanassiev.

In 2009, his recording of Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas along with Brice Pauset’s “Kontrapartita”, a creation originally dedicated to David Grimal himself, was distinguished by a Choc de Classica – Le Monde de la Musique (France’s leading classical music monthly).

His recording of Thierry Escaich’s Concerto for violin with the Orchestre National de Lyon was also awarded a Choc de Classica in 2011. Since 2008, David Grimal has been Artist in Residence at the Opéra de Dijon. He teaches violin at the Musikhochschule, in Sarrebrück, Germany.

He was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministre de la Culture in 2008.

In addition to pursuing his career as a solo artist, David Grimal has been keen to explore more personal projects. The liberty afforded by his collaboration with has enabled him to develop his inner universe by venturing into repertoires not available to soloists.

With, he has founded “L’Autre Saison”, a series of concerts performed to the benefit of and with homeless people in the Église Saint-Leu, in the very heart of Paris. David Grimal plays the Ex Roederer, Stradivarius (1710) lent by Fazenda Ipiranga, Mguaranesia / MG, Brasil.

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