ExclusiveBach: Trio Sonata for Organ no. 4 in E minor, BWV 528 (Oboe, Viola, and Harpsichord)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio Sonata for Organ no. 4 in E minor, BWV 528 (Oboe, Viola, and Harpsichord). The player of this beautiful piece is not listed. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal), and is provided through musopen.org.

Generally speaking, a trio sonata is a sonata for two melody instruments and basso continuo. Countless Baroque composers wrote trio sonatas, including Bach. But Bach the organist often thought in keyboard logic, and so he wrote trio sonatas for just one instrument: the organ. The two solo instruments were played by his hands (on two different manuals), and the bass by his feet. This gave rise to the Trio Sonatas for organ: six pieces composed by Bach around 1730, probably for his son Wilhelm Friedemann.

Like most of the sonatas, this one – the fourth – is a compilation of earlier pieces that did not belong together, but which Bach carefully combined. The first movement comes from Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes (BWV 76), one of the first cantatas Bach wrote in Leipzig, in 1723. Following a short introduction, the two melody parts – in the original an oboe d'amore and a viola da gamba – engage in a lively duet. They take turns in challenging one another with runs of semiquavers, which are immediately imitated by the other part, in a race to which Bach holds the patent.

Source: bachvereniging.nl

The video was filmed in Habkern, Switzerland and was edited by Wenjing Ma.



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