Sonata in C Minor (BWV 1017) for Flute & Harp - YouTube Mike Magatagan

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his mastery of counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organization, and his adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and over three hundred cantatas of which approximately two hundred survive.His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth. While Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, he was not widely recognised as an important composer until a revival of interest in his music during the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. J.S. Bach's six authentic sonatas for violin and keyboard (BWV 1014 - 1019) are unquestionably progressive, not least for their inclusion of fully realized harpsichord parts (as opposed to continuo parts with figured bass). They represent the real beginnings of the duo sonata as the term is understood today. It may well be that the fourth -- the Sonata for violin and harpsichord in C minor, BWV 1017 -- is stylistically-speaking the most unusual and forward-looking. While its four movements are plainly of the traditional church sonata lineage, two of them especially would have turned early eighteenth-century heads. Opening a four-movement sonata with a Siciliano, as Bach does here, is certainly unusual, if not necessarily groundbreaking; the swaying sicilienne rhythm is given to the violin while the harpsichord ponders arpeggios. The content of the Adagio third movement, however, is so unusual for its time (ca. 1717 - 1723) that one cannot but wonder at its creator's inventiveness. It is no ordinary Baroque chamber Adagio that provides the solo instrument's melody with a constant triplet-arpeggio accompaniment in the keyboard right hand and a simple, streamlined bass line in the left -- indeed, the style of the accompaniment is more like something a composer half a century or more later might have concocted -- and in terms of apparent (though by no means actual) simplicity of design and texture, this movement is unrivalled in Bach's sonatas. The remaining two movements -- the two quick movements -- are more standard Bach fare, though hardly less impressive. The second movement (Allegro) is the weightiest of all the violin/harpsichord sonata quick movements, while the finale (also Allegro) is the kind of dense, quasi-fugal binary movement we might expect. Source: AllMusic (http://www.allmusic.com/composition/s...). Although originally written for Violin & Harpsichord, I created this Arrangement of the Sonata No. 4 in C Minor (BWV 1017) for Flute & Concert (Pedal) Harp.

Sonata in C Minor (BWV 1017) for Flute & Harp - YouTube
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