ExclusiveBach: Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV 1023 - Complete Performance

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV 1023 - Complete Performance. This beautiful piece was played by Reinhold Barchet, Robert Veyron-Lacroix, Jacoba Muckel. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal), and is provided through musopen.org.

A young Bach puts his virtuoso stamp on the Italian sonata da chiesa.

The violin gets straight down to business with a whirlwind of semiquavers. It’s clear that one instrument is in the spotlight here, and it isn’t the harpsichord, as is often the case in Bach’s other surviving sonatas for violin and harpsichord (which we often refer to confusingly as violin sonatas).

This four-part work with virtuoso violin part immediately raises the question of who Bach actually wrote it for. He is a candidate himself, as the violin was his very first instrument. Or could it have been written for Johann Georg Pisendel, the leading violinist of Central Germany at the time. The two men got to know each other in 1709, following which they had a long professional relationship, and were probably friends too, even when Bach settled in Leipzig and Pisendel was celebrating his triumph at the court in Dresden. Today, that is the home of the only source of this Violin Sonata in E minor; a few full pages written in the neat hand of Pisendel’s copyist.

Read more here: bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-1023

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


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