Alison Crum / Laurence Cummings
Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord
- Type CD
- Label Signum Classics
- UPC 0635212002421
- Catalog number SIGCD 024
- Release date 01 March 2004
About the album
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 album we hear the three sonatas for the Viola da Gamba and three Preludes and Fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier.
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11Sonata in G major, BWV 1027 - Adagio
03:54 -
12Sonata in G major, BWV 1027 - Allegro ma non tanto
03:47 -
13Sonata in G major, BWV 1027 - Andante
02:31 -
14Sonata in G major, BWV 1027 - Allegro moderato
03:12 -
15Prelude in G major, BWV 860
00:58 -
16Fugue in G major, BWV 860
03:21 -
17Sonata in D major, BWV 1028 - Adagio
01:43 -
18Sonata in D major, BWV 1028 - Allegro
03:53 -
19Sonata in D major, BWV 1028 - Andanta
04:26 -
110Sonata in D major, BWV 1028 - Allegro
04:26 -
111Prelude in D major, BWV 850
01:48 -
112Fugue in D major, BWV 850
02:07 -
113Sonata in G minor, BWV 1029 - Vivace
05:31 -
114Sonata in G minor, BWV 1029 - Adagio
05:39 -
115Sonata in G minor, BWV 1029 - Allegro
03:53 -
116Prelude in G minor, BWV 861
01:36 -
117Fugue in G minor, BWV 861
02:27