Hopkinson Smith - Bach: Sonatas, Partitas & Suites (Arr. and Trans. for Lute) '2014

Tracks list

Tracklist

CD1
01. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: I. Adagio
(Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
02. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: II. Fuga
(Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
03. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: III.
Siciliana (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
04. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: IV. Presto
(Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
05. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1002: I.
Allemanda (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
06. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1002: II.
Double (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
07. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1002: III.
Corrente (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
08. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1002: VI.
Double. Presto (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
09. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1002: V.
Sarabande (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
10. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1002: VI.
Double (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
11. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1002: VII.
Tempo di borea (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
12. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1002: VIII.
Double (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
13. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: I. Grave
(Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
14. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: II. Fuga
(Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
15. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: III.
Andante (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
16. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: IV.
Allegro (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)

CD2
01. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: I.
Allemanda (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
02. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: II.
Corrente (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
03. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: III.
Sarabanda (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
04. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: IV. Giga
(Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
05. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: VI.
Ciaccona (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
06. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: I. Adagio
(Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
07. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: II. Fuga
(Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
08. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: III. Largo
(Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
09. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005: IV.
Allegro assai (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
10. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 3 in F Major, BWV 1006: I.
Preludio (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
11. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 3 in F Major, BWV 1006: II. Loure
(Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
12. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 3 in F Major, BWV 1006: III.
Gavotte en rondeau (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
13. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 3 in F Major, BWV 1006: IV.
Menuet I (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
14. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 3 in F Major, BWV 1006: V. Menuet
II (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
15. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 3 in F Major, BWV 1006: VI.
Bourrée (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)
16. 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, Partita No. 3 in F Major, BWV 1006: VII.
Gigue (Arr. and Trans. for Lute)

CD3
01. 6 Cello Suites, No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prelude (Arr. and Trans. for
Lute)
02. 6 Cello Suites, No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: II. Allemande (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
03. 6 Cello Suites, No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: III. Courante (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
04. 6 Cello Suites, No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: IV. Sarabande (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
05. 6 Cello Suites, No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: V. Menuets I & II (Arr. and
Trans. for Lute)
06. 6 Cello Suites, No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: VI. Gigue (Arr. and Trans. for
Lute)
07. 6 Cello Suites, No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: I. Prelude (Arr. and Trans. for
Lute)
08. 6 Cello Suites, No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: II. Allemande (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
09. 6 Cello Suites, No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: III. Courante (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
10. 6 Cello Suites, No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: IV. Sarabande (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
11. 6 Cello Suites, No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: V. Menuets I & II (Arr. and
Trans. for Lute)
12. 6 Cello Suites, No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: VI. Gigue (Arr. and Trans. for
Lute)
13. 6 Cello Suites, No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: I. Prelude (Arr. and Trans. for
Lute)
14. 6 Cello Suites, No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: II. Allemande (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
15. 6 Cello Suites, No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: III. Courante (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
16. 6 Cello Suites, No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: IV. Sarabande (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
17. 6 Cello Suites, No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: V. Bourrées I & II (Arr. and
Trans. for Lute)
18. 6 Cello Suites, No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: VI. Gigue (Arr. and Trans. for
Lute)

CD4
01. 6 Cello Suites, No. 4 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1010: I. Prelude (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
02. 6 Cello Suites, No. 4 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1010: II. Allemande (Arr. and
Trans. for Lute)
03. 6 Cello Suites, No. 4 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1010: III. Courante (Arr. and
Trans. for Lute)
04. 6 Cello Suites, No. 4 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1010: VI. Sarabande (Arr. and
Trans. for Lute)
05. 6 Cello Suites, No. 4 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1010: V. Bourée (Arr. and
Trans. for Lute)
06. 6 Cello Suites, No. 4 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1010: VI. Gigue (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
07. 6 Cello Suites, No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: I. Prelude (Arr. and Trans. for
Lute)
08. 6 Cello Suites, No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: II. Allemande (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
09. 6 Cello Suites, No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: III. Courante (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
10. 6 Cello Suites, No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: VI. Sarabande (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
11. 6 Cello Suites, No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: V. Gavottes I & II (Arr. and
Trans. for Lute)
12. 6 Cello Suites, No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: VI. Gigue (Arr. and Trans. for
Lute)
13. 6 Cello Suites, No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: I. Prelude (Arr. and Trans. for
Lute)
14. 6 Cello Suites, No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: II. Allemande (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
15. 6 Cello Suites, No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: III. Courante (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
16. 6 Cello Suites, No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: VI. Sarabande (Arr. and Trans.
for Lute)
17. 6 Cello Suites, No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: V. Gavottes I & II (Arr. and
Trans. for Lute)
18. 6 Cello Suites, No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: VI. Gigue (Arr. and Trans. for
Lute)

Born in New York in 1946, Swiss-American lutenist Hopkinson Smith graduated from
Harvard with Honors in Music in 1972. His instrumental studies took him to
Europe where he worked with Emilio Pujol, a great pedagogue in the highest
Catalan artistic tradition, and with the Swiss lutenist, Eugen Dombois, whose
sense of organic unity between performer, instrument, and historical period has
had lasting effects on him. He has been involved in numerous chamber music
projects and was one of the founding members of the ensemble Hespèrion XX.
Since the mid-80’s, he has focused almost exclusively on the solo
repertoires for early plucked instrument, producing a series of prize-winning
recordings for Astrée and Naïve, which feature Spanish music for vihuela
and baroque guitar, French lute music of the Renaissance and baroque, English
and Italian music of the 16th early 17th century and music from the German high
baroque.

The recording of his lute arrangements of the Bach solo violin Sonatas and
Partitas, released in the year 2000, has been universally acclaimed by the
press. Gramophone magazine called it “the best recording of these works on
any instrument”. A Dowland recording, released in early 2005, won a
Diapason d’Or and was called ‘wonderfully personal’ in a
review in the New York Times. A recording with music from the world of Francesco
da Milano, was awarded a Diapason d’Or de l’Année (the French
equivalent of a Grammy award) in November 2009 and has been called “the
first recording to do justice to Francesco’s reputation.” A CD with
the first three Bach Cello Suites played on the German Theorbo was released in
early 2013, has also won a Diapason d’Or and was called “totally
riveting” in the BBC Music Magazine.

Hopkinson Smith has performed and given master classes throughout Eastern and
Western Europe, North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Korea and Japan
sometimes combining the life-style of a hermit with that of a gypsy. In 2007 and
2009, he gave concerts and workshops in Palestine under the auspices of the
Barenboim-Said Foundation and the Swiss Arts Council. In 2010, he received the
music prize from the Italian Region of Puglia with the inscription
“maestro dei maestri, massimo interprete delle musiche per liuto
dell’antica Europa Mediterranea”. He lives in Basel, Switzerland
where he teaches at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

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