The first recording of this project was created on June 21 2017. I started to play at 22hr as the sun was fading on the longest day of the year; solstice. At this time services in the Ernst Moritz Arndt Church in the Zehlendorf district of Berlin are finished and a deeper peacefulness settles into the space.
     Composed between 1717 and 1720, the d-minor Partita is considered one of the great master-works, yet its conception was simply as a practice piece for Bach’s children. I see it as one of the few composed pieces where there is no gap between the physical action of playing it and its metaphysical power.
     One of Bach’s only works not dedicated to God, the piece reveals itself as an ode to existence. Its contemporary expression here does not necessitate being new but rather that we experience all of time in the present moment. I started practising it in 1996 when I was 16 years old and the ritual of playing it is always an exercise, never a performance.