Bach published a keyboard partita everyyear between 1726 and 1731, ‘offered tomusic lovers … to refresh their spirits’. Hestamped each piece with his matchlesscontrapuntal mastery and feeling for dancerhythms.

Angela Hewitt, whose recordingof the Partitas was praised by Gramophonefor ‘effortlessly eclipsing all competition’,resumes her Bach Odyssey with four of thesemighty masterworks.