J.S.Bach: Sei Suites per Violincello Solo BWV 1007-1012 Rocco Filippini

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Suite I BWV 1007 in sol maggiore/in G major
• 1 Suite I BWV 1007: Prélude 02:33
• 2 Suite I BWV 1007: Allemande 03:39
• 3 Suite I BWV 1007: Courante 02:24
• 4 Suite I BWV 1007 Sarabande 02:51
• 5 Suite I BWV 1007: Menuet 03:02
• 6 Suite I BWV 1007 Gigue 01:48
• Suite II BWV 1008 in re minore/in d minor
• 7 Suite II BWV 1008 Prélude 03:25
• 8 Suite II BWV 1008: Allemande 03:06
• 9 Suite III BWV 1009: Courante 01:58
• 10 Suite II BWV 1008: Sarabande 04:08
• 11 Suite II BWV 1008: Menuet 02:58
• 12 Suite II BWV 1008: Gigue 02:34
• Suite III BWV 1009 in do maggiore/IN C major
• 13 Suite III BWV 1009: Prélude 03:27
• 14 Suite III BWV 1009: Allemande 03:20
• 15 Suite III BWV 1009: Courante 03:03
• 16 Suite III BWV 1009: Sarabande 04:12
• 17 Suite III BWV 1009: Bourrée 03:17
• 18 Suite III BWV 1009: Gigue 03:04
• Suite IV BWV 1010 in mi bemolle maggiore/in E flat major
• 19 Suite IV BWV 1010: Prélude 03:56
• 20 Suite IV BWV 1010: Allemande 04:02
• 21 Suite IV BWV 1010: Courante 03:29
• 22 Suite IV BWV 1010: Sarabande 04:09
• 23 Suite IV BWV 1010: Bourrée 04:29
• 24 Suite IV BWV 1010: Gigue 02:32
• Suite V BWV 1011 in do minore/in c minor
• 25 Suite V BWV 1011: Prélude 06:28
• 26 Suite V BWV 1011: Allemande 05:48
• 27 Suite V BWV 1011: Courante 02:07
• 28 Suite V BWV 1011: Sarabande 03:01
• 29 Suite V BWV 1011: Gavotte 04:28
• 30 Suite V BWV 1011: Gigue 02:17
• Suite VI BWV 1012 in re maggiore/IN D major
• 31 Suite VI BWV 1012: Prélude 04:48
• 32 Suite VI BWV 1012: Allemande 06:51
• 33 Suite VI BWV 1012: Courante 03:33
• 34 Suite VI BWV 1012: Sarabande 04:51
• 35 Suite VI BWV 1012: Gavotte 04:10
• 36 Suite VI BWV 1012: Gigue 04:00
• Total Runtime 02:09:48

Info for J.S.Bach: Sei Suites per Violincello Solo BWV 1007-1012

The most remarkable, unexpected, and surprising of the works that came to light in Köthen, where Bach worked from December 1717 to April 1723, are those for violin and cello that Johann Sebastian conceived without the support of any accompaniment, entrusted to either a figured bass or to a cymbal playing in alternating ‘concertante’ manner.

The two collections – each comprising six compositions arranged to an overall scheme presumably with the view to a printed edition – differ both in content and form, but are in some ways complementary. The first collection to be compiled was probably the one with the works for unaccompanied violin, as would be attested by the original manuscript, whose frontispiece reads: Sei Solo. | a | Violino | senza | Baßo | accompagnato. | Libro Primo. | da | Joh: Seb: Bach. | ao. 1720. The work (which has come down to us in six other copies made by different hands, one by Anna Magdalena Bach) includes three sonatas and three suites (BWV 1001-1006). The alternating succession of sonatas and suites (the latter made up of a series of dances, in one case preceded by a prelude) should not however be seen as a succession of six entirely autonomous and independent musical entities (even if Bach speaks of Sei Solo, typical of the editorial custom of the age), but rather as the presentation of three couples of compositions of which the second term or member of the couple is the continuation or corollary of the first; in other words, what we have is integral sonatas, a suite of dances as it were, following a tradition that was by no means rare for the music of the time.

Rocco Filippini, violoncello

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