ExclusiveBach: Violin Sonata in G major, BWV 1021 - Complete Performance

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Sonata in G major, BWV 1021 - 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.

"Music to be enjoyed with wine"

That’s how it should be. At least that’s how Bach and his contemporaries saw it. Nowadays we always perform instrumental works like this violin sonata in concert halls. But in Bach’s day, this sort of music was played at elite dinners or parties given by musical friends. So pouring a glass of beer or wine with this chamber music is allowed – or even encouraged.

When Bach wrote this sonata, he had already been working for a while in Leipzig, where he provided for a large family. His sons were exceptionally gifted, and his second wife Anna Magdalena was extremely musical as well. She was also eager to learn, enthusiastically mastering the harpsichord and copying her husband’s pieces, which she apparently wanted to understand thoroughly. We only know of this piece through a copy she made.

Read more here: bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-1021

The video was captured near Interlaken, Switzerland by Christian Schlegel and was edited by Wenjing Ma.



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