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Johann Sebastian BachPartita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830Four Duets (Clavieri¼bung III):....Duet I in E Minor, BWV 802....Duet II in F Major, BWV 803....Duet III in G Major, BWV 804....Duet IV in A Minor, BWV 805Overture in the French Style (Partita in B Minor), BWV 831

REVIEWS

INDIE Award Nominee

"Every bit as engaging as in the first four... Schepkin plans to record all of Bach's keyboard music, and I will want to own very volume."--American Record Guide

"Schepkin is a very special phenomenon... What I miss in almost anyone else's Bach, and find time and again in Schepkin's, is the overwhelming sense of polyphonic lines propelling each other in lively and organic rhythmic play, as well as the feeling...that under his hands melodic line moves unerringly with harmonic pulse."--Fanfare Magazine

BIO

The Russian-American pianist Sergey Schepkin has performed, to great acclaim, in many countries of the world in such venues and on such series as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bank of America Celebrity Series in Boston, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, the Grand Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, among many others. He has won particular praise for his performances and recordings of J.S. Bach, and was hailed by The New York Times as "a formidable Bach pianist . . . [who] plays with the passion and drama of a young Glenn Gould." "No one who loves Bach can afford not to listen to these performances," Fanfare magazine wrote about Schepkin's recording of Bach's Partitas. International Piano judged his recording of the First Book of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier as one of the best ever made, along with those of Edwin Fischer and Sviatoslav Richter, and Amazon proclaimed: "For Bach Partitas, he is it." The Essential Listening Companion catalog considered Schepkin's recording of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations as one of the top three recordings of that work on the piano along with the one by Andri¡s Schiff and the 1981 version by Glenn Gould. The American Record Guide deemed Schepkin "the major Bach interpreter of his generation."