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J. S. Bach Six Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin - Six Suites for Unaccompanied 'Cello - Lea Pocket Scores Paperback
The Authoritative New Study Score Edition for the Music Student - Record Collector - Concert Goer
CONTENTS
Six Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin
Sonata No. I, g minor
Partita No. I, b minor
Sonata No. II, a minor
Partita No. II, d minor
Sonata No. Ill, C major
Partita No. Ill, E major
Six Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello
Suite No. I, G major
Suite No. II, d minor
Suite No. Ill, C major
Suite No. IV, Eb major
Suite No. V, c minor
Suite No. VI, D major
NOTES
Bach's six solo sonatas for the violin are as uncommonly difficult play as their mastery is rewarding. Their polyphonic style would almost contradictory to the nature of the instrument for which they air written. As C. H. H. Parry remarks in his excellent biography of Back. 'The extraordinary difficulties which his solo music presents impelled violinists ultimately to develop a special phase of technique to conquer them, because the music is in itself so supremely great and noble that highminded performers could not rest satisfied till they found the war to master it. And hence it has come about ultimately that these solo work* are regarded as among the most convincing proofs of the powers os interpretation of the foremost violinists of later times.'
The Partitas are sequences of dance forms; the Sonatas, sequences of 'abstract' forms.�The famous Chaconne is the last movement of Partita No. II.
The six Suites for Violoncello, in form akin to the Violin Partitas and fully as remarkable as to musical content and demands on technical skifl. have in recent times enjoyed increasing popularity due in no small measure to their superb performances and recordings by Pablo Casals.
The present edition is a photographic reduction, from Vol. 27 of the famous 'Bach-Gesellschaft' edition of Bach's complete works.
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