ExclusiveBach: Organ Sonata No. 3 In D Minor, Bwv 527 - I. Andante

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Sonata No. 3 In D Minor, Bwv 527 - I. Andante. This beautiful piece was presented by GarsuMene. It is a royalty free music provided by pond5.com.

Bach's simplest trio sonata is a great duet.

To the ears of seventeenth and eighteenth-century musicologists like Mattheson, Rousseau and Schubart, the key of D minor represented melancholy, devotion, solemnity and seriousness. And Bach must have had similar ideas, as the opening of this sonata in D minor has an uncertain and emphatically andante sound. Following this tentative start, Bach launches into experimentation, by juggling motifs almost wildly and searching for new keys.

The whole piece is constructed like a simple conversation between the two upper parts, accompanied by a continuo bass. The Adagio (the time signature later became Adagio e dolce) seems to be an elegant, uncomplicated flute duet. Bach reused it himself in his Concerto in A minor, BWV 1044, and Mozart used it in his String trio, KV 405a.

The final movement, an exuberant Vivace, definitely makes more technical demands on the organist. In its form, this two-part fugue resembles a rondo, with a catalogue of imitating triplet figures jumping from part to part, in between the repetitions of the theme.

Six sonatas, BWV 525-530

Around 1727-1730, Bach introduced a new organ genre: the trio sonata. This type of sonata –with two melodic instruments and bass, or a soloist and keyboard – had long been a fixture in Baroque chamber music, but the three parts had never been heard before on one instrument. Through clever registration, it is possible to attain a wealth of sounds on the organ, but this is merely the beginning, as the six sonatas are regarded as extremely difficult. Schweitzer, for instance, says that “those who have practiced these sonatas thoroughly will not actually encounter any more problems in either the old or the modern organ literature. [...] He has achieved absolute precision in his playing – the ultimate condition of the true art of organ-playing. In this complicated trio piece, even the smallest irregularity can be heard with terrifying clarity”.

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The video was filmed by Simone Schlegel in Switzerland and edited by Wenjing Ma.


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