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J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba
& Preludes and Fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier

Alison Crum & Laurence Cummings


"these are two great players who know the music's personality and mannerisms"

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It is not difficult to discern many of the elements that render Bach’s three sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord so remarkable by the standards of their age: a mixing of virtually every conceivable genre, form, style, medium and gesture of the late German Baroque; a forging of connections that had not hitherto been made; a penetrating insight into the multi-dimensional potentialities of each motive, theme and polyphonic complex.

Composing for the viol in this way was by, the early eighteenth century, archaic, yet what has made J.S.Bach a summit for many is his apparent ability to transcend historical contingency, somehow to stop the clock of outward progress and to rearrange and recreate the world as he knew it.

On this disc we hear the three sonatas for the Viola da Gamba and three Preludes and Fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier.

Sonata in G major BWV 1027
Sonata in D major BWV 1028
Sonata in G minor BWV 1029
Prelude & Fugue in G major BWV 860
Prelude & Fugue in D major BWV 850
Prelude & Fugue in G minor BWV 861

 

 
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Alison Crum & Laurence Cummings
 
Release date: 3rd April 2000
Order code: SIGCD024
Barcode: 63521200242
 
 
Sonata in G major, BWV 1027
1 Adagio [3:54]
2 Allegro ma non tanto [3:47]
3 Andante [2:31]
4 Allegro Moderato [3:12]
Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 860
5 Prelude
[0:58]
6 Fugue [3:21]
Sonata in D major, BWV 1028
7 (Adagio) [1:43]
8 (Allegro) [3:53]
9 Andanta [4:26]
10 Allegro [4:26]
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 850
11 Prelude [1:48]
12 Fugue [2:07]
Sonata in G minor, BWV 1029
13 Vivace [5:31]
14 Adagio [5:39]
15 Allegro
[3:53]
Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 861
16 Prelude [1:36]
17 Fugue [2:27]
 
Total running time: [55:12]

 

 

 

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