Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch

• 1 I. Adagio 03:56
• 2 II. Fugue: Allegro 06:30
• 3 III. Siciliana 03:17
• 4 IV. Presto 03:59
• 5 I. Allemanda 05:49
• 6 II. Double 02:53
• 7 III. Corrente 03:16
• 8 IV. Double. Presto 03:43
• 9 V. Sarabanda 04:11
• 10 VI. Double 02:58
• 11 VII. Tempo di Bourree 03:28
• 12 VIII. Double 03:15
• 13 I. Grave 03:58
• 14 II. Fuga 08:39
• 15 III. Andante 05:39
• 16 IV. Allegro 04:45
• 17 I. Allemande 05:48
• 18 II. Courante 02:54
• 19 III. Sarabande 04:14
• 20 IV. Gigue 04:54
• 21 V. Ciaccona 14:33
• 22 I. Adagio 05:00
• 23 II. Fugue 11:49
• 24 III. Largo 03:07
• 25 IV. Allegro assai 05:48
• 26 I. Preludio 03:48
• 27 II. Loure 03:44
• 28 III. Gavotte en rondeau 03:19
• 29 IV. Menuet I 01:46
• 30 V. Menuet II 02:32
• 31 VI. Bourree 01:22
• 32 VII. Gigue 01:50
• Total Runtime 02:26:44

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Ondine proudly presents a release of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin with Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch. Kaakinen-Pilch is an unusually versatile violinist, predominantly known for her performance of period music but also excelling in many other styles and genres. Her position as concertmaster in the orchestra of Philippe Herreweghe is testament to her skill as an early music performer.

On the present album Kaakinen-Pilch performs Bach's Sonatas and Partitas on a violin from the 17th century. This collection of works for solo violin was the pinnacle and culmination of the violin's 200-year history in its day.

Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, violin

Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch
is an unusually versatile violinist. Though she plays music of every era, the emphasis in her repertoire is on the 17th to 19th centuries. She also plays the viola and viola d'amore and often leads the orchestra or conducts from the front desk.

When she was nine, her school in Kajaani bought 20 violins and set the whole of the music class playing. By the end of the autumn all but five pupils had given up, and after Christmas the only remaining one was Sirkka-Liisa, who soon began taking lessons with Olli Kuusoja. A giant of a man who ran a florist's shop and kept sheep, he tenderly herded his pupil towards the Junior Sibelius Academy.

By the time she left school, Sirkka-Liisa had moved to Helsinki and from then onwards became an inveterate chamber musician thanks to Battalia, Avanti!, the Sixth Floor Orchestra, Yoshiko Arai, Paavo Pohjola, Anssi Mattila and various festivals.

Though Sirkka-Liisa has had many memorable teachers, her primary taskmaster has always been work. While studying in the Netherlands, she gained access to the highest early music elite in the orchestras of Frans Brüggen, Philippe Herreweghe and others. Her longest spell, lasting over ten years, was as leader of the Collegium Vocale. She never stops learning, because every concert, and especially the worst and most difficult, teaches the experienced musician something.

Sirkka-Liisa is nowadays in great demand as a leader of countless renowned early music ensembles and orchestras, performing music of the Baroque and symphonies of the age of Mozart and Schubert. Her solo repertoire includes such works as the 16 Mystery Sonatas by Biber, the Bach Solo Sonatas and Partitas, and solo violin works of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Professor of chamber music at Stavanger University, Sirkka-Liisa has also been a Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the Bremen Institute of Arts and teaches at the Sibelius Academy. She lives with her Polish husband and son Wilhelm in Cracow but they have a second home by a lake in Northern Finland. And that, she says, is where her heart lives.

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