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J Bach .S. / Rilling / Roloff- Pure Bach (2pk) (CD)

SKU: 881488200829
¥145.00
the album cover for J Bach .S. / Rilling / Roloff - Pure Bach (2pk)
the album cover for J Bach .S. / Rilling / Roloff - Pure Bach (2pk)

The "Sei Suonate à Cembalo certato è Violino Solo", as Bach's six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (BWV 1014-1019) are entitled in the oldest surviving fair copy, are undoubtedly among those works which have set new standards in chamber music. They have long established themselves on the world's concert platforms, and yet they still raise questions. There is no certainty about when or where the sonatas were written. Did Bach compose them when he moved to Leipzig? And did he deliberately plan them as a set of six? We cannot tell. Accordingly, Bach's Violin Sonatas BWV 1014-1019 are not only unbelievably varied, they amount to a veritable treasure-chamber of musical forms and moods. Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel perceptively remarked in 1774 that the Sonatas sounded "very good even now, even though they are over 50 years old", and in addition contained "some Adagii, which one could not set more songfully at the present day". That "present day" was the world in which Emanuel Bach lived and worked, the world of the Enlightenment, the galant style and the "sentiment" of Empfindsamkeit. From such a perspective, as works in which the primacy of melody is constantly evident despite the narrow limits imposed by the writing for trio, the Violin Sonatas may be perceived as a bridge into our own times.

Tracklist:

  1. Sonata in B minor BWV 1014~Adagio
  2. Sonata in B minor BWV 1014~Allegro
  3. Sonata in B minor BWV 1014~Andante
  4. Sonata in B minor BWV 1014~Allegro
  5. Sonata in A major BWV 1015~Without Notation
  6. Sonata in A major BWV 1015~Allegro assai
  7. Sonata in A major BWV 1015~Andante un poco
  8. Sonata in A major BWV 1015~Presto
  9. Sonata in E major BWV 1016~Adagio
  10. Sonata in E major BWV 1016~Allegro
  11. Sonata in E major BWV 1016~Adagio ma non tanto
  12. Sonata in E major BWV 1016~Allegro
  13. Sonata in C minor BWV 1017~Siciliano: Largo
  14. Sonata in C minor BWV 1017~Allegro
  15. Sonata in C minor BWV 1017~Adagio
  16. Sonata in C minor BWV 1017~Allegro
  17. Sonata in F minor BWV 1018~Without Notation
  18. Sonata in F minor BWV 1018~Allegro
  19. Sonata in F minor BWV 1018~Adagio
  20. Sonata in F minor BWV 1018~Vivace
  21. Sonata in G major BWV 1019~Allegro
  22. Sonata in G major BWV 1019~Largo
  23. Sonata in G major BWV 1019~Allegro
  24. Sonata in G major BWV 1019~Adagio
  25. Sonata in G major BWV 1019~Allegro
Format: New CD/Classical

J Bach .S. / Rilling / Roloff- Pure Bach (2pk) (CD)

SKU: 881488200829
¥145.00

Release Date: 09.03.2021

 
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The "Sei Suonate à Cembalo certato è Violino Solo", as Bach's six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (BWV 1014-1019) are entitled in the oldest surviving fair copy, are undoubtedly among those works which have set new standards in chamber music. They have long established themselves on the world's concert platforms, and yet they still raise questions. There is no certainty about when or where the sonatas were written. Did Bach compose them when he moved to Leipzig? And did he deliberately plan them as a set of six? We cannot tell. Accordingly, Bach's Violin Sonatas BWV 1014-1019 are not only unbelievably varied, they amount to a veritable treasure-chamber of musical forms and moods. Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel perceptively remarked in 1774 that the Sonatas sounded "very good even now, even though they are over 50 years old", and in addition contained "some Adagii, which one could not set more songfully at the present day". That "present day" was the world in which Emanuel Bach lived and worked, the world of the Enlightenment, the galant style and the "sentiment" of Empfindsamkeit. From such a perspective, as works in which the primacy of melody is constantly evident despite the narrow limits imposed by the writing for trio, the Violin Sonatas may be perceived as a bridge into our own times.

Tracklist:

  1. Sonata in B minor BWV 1014~Adagio
  2. Sonata in B minor BWV 1014~Allegro
  3. Sonata in B minor BWV 1014~Andante
  4. Sonata in B minor BWV 1014~Allegro
  5. Sonata in A major BWV 1015~Without Notation
  6. Sonata in A major BWV 1015~Allegro assai
  7. Sonata in A major BWV 1015~Andante un poco
  8. Sonata in A major BWV 1015~Presto
  9. Sonata in E major BWV 1016~Adagio
  10. Sonata in E major BWV 1016~Allegro
  11. Sonata in E major BWV 1016~Adagio ma non tanto
  12. Sonata in E major BWV 1016~Allegro
  13. Sonata in C minor BWV 1017~Siciliano: Largo
  14. Sonata in C minor BWV 1017~Allegro
  15. Sonata in C minor BWV 1017~Adagio
  16. Sonata in C minor BWV 1017~Allegro
  17. Sonata in F minor BWV 1018~Without Notation
  18. Sonata in F minor BWV 1018~Allegro
  19. Sonata in F minor BWV 1018~Adagio
  20. Sonata in F minor BWV 1018~Vivace
  21. Sonata in G major BWV 1019~Allegro
  22. Sonata in G major BWV 1019~Largo
  23. Sonata in G major BWV 1019~Allegro
  24. Sonata in G major BWV 1019~Adagio
  25. Sonata in G major BWV 1019~Allegro