
BACH TRIO SONATAS part 3: Sonatas 4–6
Part 3: Sonatas 4-6 The first movement of Sonata 4, BWV 528, survives as an ensemble piece in the opening of Cantata 76, set for oboe d’amore and viola da gamba with basso continuo. We.
Part 3: Sonatas 4-6 The first movement of Sonata 4, BWV 528, survives as an ensemble piece in the opening of Cantata 76, set for oboe d’amore and viola da gamba with basso continuo. We.
The six trio sonatas by J. S. Bach BWV 525-530, are special—famously so. “One can’t say enough about their beauty,” wrote Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Bach’s first biographer, as early as 1802. “They’re little masterpieces, compact.
Part 2: Sonatas 1-3 Perky in its outer two fast movements, wistfully melancholy in the middle slow movement, Sonata 1, BWV 525, also survives in a contemporary manuscript as chamber music. The arrangement for violin.
part 1: our backstage view The first weekend in April, the Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players will perform the full set of Bach’s six trio sonatas, BWV 525–530. Though these pieces survive as a set.
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Tempesta di Mare commissioned Mads Torres to create the lead artwork for our 2024-25 Season. Catch up with Mads in a conversation they had with our Coordinator of Production and Administration, Sarah Giampietro: What made.
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