Content
- Sonata I, BWV1014
- Sonata II, BWV 1015
- Sonata III, BWV 1016
Sonatas I-III
Bärenreiter Urtext
Twenty-five years after Johann Sebastian Bach’s death his son Carl Philipp Emanuel praised his father’s trio sonatas, stating that “still today they sound great, even though they are older than fifty years.” What a compliment about works of a genre that was notoriously fast to adapt to new styles and fashions in the eighteenth century! Still today, Bach’s sonatas are considered masterpieces of Baroque counterpoint. Yet they might surprise anyone who expects them to feature the usual combination of two flutes or violins and figured bass. As in all of Bach’s trio sonatas (except those for solo organ), there is only one melody instrument, as two of the three voices are played by the two hands of the obbligato harpsichord.
The sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014-1016 are a single sonata cycle with a remarkable expressive range: The melancholic, even lamenting sonorities of the first and fourth sonatas are contrasted by the serenity of the second or the virtuosity of the third sonata.
This revised edition is based on manuscript copies by several of Bach’s pupils, as well as on the Urtext of the “New Bach Edition”. The edition comprises a harpsichord score, a part for a bass string instrument as well as both an Urtext violin part and a second violin part, annotated with fingering and bowing along with notes on performance practice. A detailed Preface (Ger/Eng) and a Critical Commentary (Ger/Eng) are also included.
for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord
Volume II: Sonatas IV-VI
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, basso continuo
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116715
für Violine und obligates Cembalo
for: Violin, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 190082
Edited from the sources and provided with Notes on Interpretation
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Violin, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 606980
Heft I
Hortus Musicus
for: Treble recorder [flute/violin], basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 122127
Hortus Musicus 178
for: Oboe [flute/violin], basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 122140
Hortus Musicus
for: 2 violins, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 122189
(Bc ausgesetzt)
Ledenburg Sammlung
for: Viola da gamba, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 664478
from Essercizii musici
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Flute, basso continuo
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 586177