ExclusiveBach: Sonata in E Major for violin & harpsichord, BWV 1016 (Violin & Harpsichord)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in E Major for violin & harpsichord, BWV 1016 (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.

“Sie machen mir viel Vergnügen, ohngeacht sie über 50 Jahre alt sind”, said Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel in 1774. He was sending Bach’s six sonatas for violin and harpsichord, BWV 1014-1019, to Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who was writing a biography of father Bach. Carl Philipp Emanuel continued, “es sind einige Adagii darin, die man heut zu Tage nicht sangbarer setzen kann”. If any Adagio deserves the label ‘melodious’, then it is the third movement of the Sonata in E major. Incidentally, Carl Philipp Emanuel referred to Bach’s six sonatas as “Clavier trios”, as the violin and the right hand of the harpsichord are equal partners, while the left hand plays a separate bass part – so they are real trio sonatas.

Apparently, Bach himself also derived great pleasure from the collection of six, as he kept tinkering with them from his Köthen years (1717-1723) right up to his death, even when he was making chamber music with his Collegium Musicum in Leipzig.

Source: Bachvereinigung.nl

The video was filmed near Habkern, Switzerland by Simone Schlegel and edited by Wenjing Ma.






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