Guest
Witness gifted young pianists take to the stage and learn from a faculty of esteemed pedagogues. We offer all our livestreams free of charge. Please consider making a gift to support the Oxford Piano Festival, so we can continue to do so in future years: What's on at the Festival: Bach • Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV 825 Bach • Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 Bach • Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV 827 Bach • Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828 Bach • Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829 Bach • Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830 Each year from 1726 to 1730, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a Partita for keyboard that elaborated on the series of baroque dance forms standardised by his colleague Johann Kuhnau. Bach’s works, however, were exceptional and only got more so – mining new emotional depth and technical flair from ostensibly simple dance music with levels of perfection that Bach would never surpass. The composer’s first biographer Forkel wrote that the Partitas sound ‘always new’. Jeremy Denk – ‘a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs’ (New York Times) – comes to the University Church to play a score Bach intended for the delight of the player, but which extends far beyond. This livestream will be available to watch on-demand for 28 days after initial broadcast. Filmed by Apple and Biscuit at University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. #OPF23
