ExclusiveBach: Sonata in G Major for violin & harpsichord, BWV 1019 (Violin & Harpsichord)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in G Major for violin & harpsichord, BWV 1019 (Violin & Harpsichord). This beautiful piece was played by Josef Suk and Zuzana Ruzickova. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal), and is provided through musopen.org.

Although there is much uncertainty about the details of Bach’s earliest music, we do know for sure that this sonata accompanied its composer throughout his life. Like the other violin sonatas, BWV 1019 originated in the period of Bach’s big solo works that were created before 1720. The six sonatas for violin and harpsichord, of which this is the last in the series, may have been arrangements of lost trio sonatas. Two later variations of this Sonata in G major have survived in several sources. The last one dates from the 1740’s, which is quite exceptional. In this sonata, Bach appears to have mixed and matched his music to his heart’s content. A Courante for harpsichord solo moved to the third movement of Partita no. 6 BWV 830, the versions differed in the order and even the number of their movements, and over the years Bach replaced most of the movements with new music (from his archive?). So it looked as if he still performed the sonata regularly. To make things easier, Shunske Sato and Diego Ares recorded all the versions – for the puzzlers, enthusiasts and completists among us.

With its five – and at one point even six – movements, the sonata is very different to its five sisters, which are all properly comprised of the four slow-fast-slow-fast movements of the sonata da chiesa convention. Even more surprising is the Allegro for harpsichord. The very first version also had such an unexpected solo, but then a different one to later on. Incidentally, this prominent position in the middle version is taken by a Cantabile ma un poco adagio of unworldly beauty; a quasi-aria that fortunately also appears as a true aria for soprano in cantatas BWV 120 and 120a.

Source: bachvereniging.nl

The video was captured in a natural reserve in Switzerland by Simone Schlegel and was edited by Wenjing Ma.




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