Francisco Fullana - Bach's Long Shadow, The Chaconne Files (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Bach’s music is the clearest representation of natural beauty created by man
in the Western world. Each note functions as a drop of musical paint appearing in the space/time continuum. Each drop a precise intersection across centuries between Bach’s quill, the performer’s hands and the listener’s ears. Through the rapid succession of these musical moments, Bach is constructing a sonic cathedral that captures the beauty of the natural world in sound – even using devices that are ever present in nature such as the golden ratio which governs the arrangement of seeds within a flower. His music inspires not just complex feelings, like the music of other masters, but also resonates in a more powerful way: it fills us with an unadorned awe – a sense of wonder about what is beyond our reach, verging on mystical epiphany.
During the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was Bach who kept me inspired. He kept challenging me, always causing me to return to one central question in my search for bringing Bach’s vivid representation of natural beauty to life: What is the role of the performer in these works? I wish I could ask that question to my 9-year-old self, discovering his Sonatas and Partitas for the first time. I feel he could answer in a way that no adult could. That natural innocence, that purity, gets lost along the way in all of us as we grow into adults. But I am also so grateful for the techniques, knowledge and life experience acquired through the past few years. That 9-year-old was not capable of asking himself the questions that I am grappling with. How could a child have known to embark on a search for what’s essential in Bach’s music? He couldn’t even fully appreciate the natural beauty that surrounds us every waking moment. Or the incomprehensible beauty of the unknown, beyond this blue globe we call home. He didn’t even start to realize the value in Bach’s extraordinary capture of the beauty all around us.

TRACKLIST

01. Francisco Fullana - Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: I. Allemanda
02. Francisco Fullana - Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: II. Corrente
03. Francisco Fullana - Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: III. Sarabanda
04. Francisco Fullana - Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: IV. Giga
05. Francisco Fullana - Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciaccona
06. Francisco Fullana - Punta Campanella



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