{"product_id":"sacd125-6-suites-for-solo-cello","title":"6 Suites for Solo Cello","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe most remarkable, unexpected, and surprising of the works that came to light in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eKöthen, where Bach worked from December 1717 to April 1723, are those for violin \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eand cello that Johann Sebastian conceived without the support of any accompaniment, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eentrusted to either a figured bass or to a cymbal playing in alternating ‘concertante’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003emanner. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe two collections – each comprising six compositions arranged to an overall \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003escheme presumably with the view to a printed edition – differ both in content and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eform, but are in some ways complementary. The first collection to be compiled was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eprobably the one with the works for unaccompanied violin, as would be attested by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"IT\"\u003eBaßo | accompagnato. | Libro Primo. | da | Joh: Seb: Bach. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e| ao. 1720. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe work \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e(which has come down to us in six other copies made by different hands, one by Anna \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eMagdalena Bach) includes three sonatas and three suites (BWV 1001-1006). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"IT\"\u003eThe alternating \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003esuccession of sonatas and suites (the latter made up of a series of dances, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ein one case preceded by a prelude) should not however be seen as a succession of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003esix entirely autonomous and independent musical entities (even if Bach speaks of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eSei Solo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e, typical of the editorial custom of the age), but rather as the presentation \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eof three couples of compositions of which the second term or member of the couple \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eis the continuation or corollary of the first; in other words, what we have is integral \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003esonatas, a suite of dances as it were, following a tradition that was by no means rare \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003efor the music of the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fonè","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738645606724,"sku":"SACD125-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738645639492,"sku":"SACD125-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308143845700,"sku":"SACD125-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/SACD125_edb10918-4337-46cc-8383-28048ab60418.jpg?v=1790124749","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/sacd125-6-suites-for-solo-cello","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}