Johann Sebastian Bach appears to have had a lifelong interest in chamber music. He was the son of a musician and the father of a large family: playing together was part of everyday life for the Bach family. He is known to have composed many works for this repertoire, some of them scattered to the winds. Various attempts to locate these missing chamber music works have brought to light many uncertain pieces, and it is often difficult to separate authentic works from others that are not. Gottfried von der Goltz directs our gaze towards these compositions that are in part hardly known and sometimes atypical: three sonatas (BWV 1021, 1023 and 1024) and a fugue (BWV 1026), which we are delighted to rediscover. Also on the program are the Sonata in A major, long attributed to J. S. Bach but now recognized as a composition by Telemann, and an anonymous sonata in C minor dating from the 1720s.
1 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G Major, BWV 1021 I. Adagio
2 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G Major, BWV 1021 II. Vivace
3 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G Major, BWV 1021 III. Largo
4 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G Major, BWV 1021 IV. Presto
5 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in C minor, BWV 1024 I. Adagio
6 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in C minor, BWV 1024 II. Presto
7 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in C minor, BWV 1024 III. Affettuoso
8 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in C minor, BWV 1024 IV. Vivace
9 Bach: Violin Sonata in C minor I. Adagio
10 Bach: Violin Sonata in C minor II. Allegro
11 Bach: Violin Sonata in C minor III. Siciliana
12 Bach: Violin Sonata in C minor IV. Allegro
13 Bach: Fugue in G minor, BWV 1026
14 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G Major, BWV 1019A V. [Violino Solo E Basso L'accompagnato]
15 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in E minor, BWV 1023 I. [Preludio]
16 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in E minor, BWV 1023 II. Adagio Ma Non Tanto
17 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in E minor, BWV 1023 III. Allemanda
18 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in E minor, BWV 1023 IV. Gigue
19 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in a Major, BWV Anh. II 153 I. [Adagio]
20 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in a Major, BWV Anh. II 153 II. [Vivace]
21 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in a Major, BWV Anh. II 153 III. [Largo]
22 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in a Major, BWV Anh. II 153 IV. Allegro
23 Bach: Sonata for Violin and Continuo in a Major, BWV Anh. II 153 V. [Fuga]
Johann Sebastian Bach appears to have had a lifelong interest in chamber music. He was the son of a musician and the father of a large family: playing together was part of everyday life for the Bach family. He is known to have composed many works for this repertoire, some of them scattered to the winds. Various attempts to locate these missing chamber music works have brought to light many uncertain pieces, and it is often difficult to separate authentic works from others that are not. Gottfried von der Goltz directs our gaze towards these compositions that are in part hardly known and sometimes atypical: three sonatas (BWV 1021, 1023 and 1024) and a fugue (BWV 1026), which we are delighted to rediscover. Also on the program are the Sonata in A major, long attributed to J. S. Bach but now recognized as a composition by Telemann, and an anonymous sonata in C minor dating from the 1720s.
