Baerenreiter Verlag Six Sonatas BWV 1017-1019, Sonatas IV-VI Volume II - Bach/Wollny/Manze - Violin/Harpsichord - Score/Parts

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Editors: Peter Wollny, Andrew Manze
Format: Performance Score and Parts, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: Violin, Harpsichord (Piano), Viola da gamba (Violoncello)

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.

Contents:

• Sonata IV, BWV 1017
• Sonata V, BWV 1018
• Sonata VI, BWV 1019