Franzosische Suite-The French Suites were written in 1722. But it was not until Bach biographer Johann Forkel prepared an edition in the early nineteenth century that the pieces became known by the collective title French. It is true that Bach gave each of the dance movements a French title but it was Forkel who declared that they were 'written in the French taste with an emphasis on tunefulness…

revised edition hard cover-Johann Sebastian Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias are rightly considered as indispensable to every pianist. In his famous preface to the collection Bach himself called it an“Instruction” which teaches students and keyboard lovers to “treat correctly” both two and three voices to “achieve a singing style in playing” and to &ldqu…

As in his days Johann Sebastian Bach's Inventions form an integral part of the Piano teaching literature even today. The three selected examples with facsimile give an insight into Bach's teaching workshop and his aim to teach his pupils 'to cultivate a cantabile style of playing and to gain from the beginning a strong foretaste of composition'. The edited musical text of the new edition is based…

O Taste and See

Johann Sebastian Bach could not have wished for a better accolade. A Tribute to Bach is a daring arrangement of Bach's Partita no.2 for pianoforte and a homage to the grandmaster of Baroque in a modern orchestration. Arranger Axel Norman has achieved this by adding percussion tastefully to the original. The woodwind section of the band however plays the leading parts.

Le 1725 Notebook de Anna Magdalena Bach est principalement célèbre pour les pièces telles que les deux Menuets en sol mineur majeur et G (nos 4 et 5 de la collection actuelle) et l'Aria di Giovannini. Ces trois, en effet, la majorité des pièces, n'étaient pas composés de j. s. Bach, mais par d'autres, souvent assez inconnus musiciens. Bien que commencée par son mari, Anna Magdalena Bach compilé le…

Cantata No.211: Schweigt stille plaudert nicht (Be quiet chatter not) BWV 211.The Coffee Cantata (BA 10211) and the Peasant Cantata (BA 10212) both on librettos by Picander are among the best-known and most frequently performed of Bach’s secular cantatas.Written in or around 1733 the Coffee Cantata deals humorously with the importance of the newly fashionable beverage. This is demonstra…

Revised edition of HN 1064 without fingerings-Bach?s Inventions and Sinfonias are rightly considered as indispensable to every pianist. In his famous preface to the collection Bach himself called it an ?Instruction? which teaches students and keyboard lovers to ?treatcorrectly? both two and three voices to ?achieve a singing style in playing? and to ?acquire a strong foretaste of composition?. T…

Transcription-Jean Guillou did not change a single note for this arrangement. He just distributed the different parts to the manuals and the pedal in a way that guarantees a clear and varied registration in harmony with the architecture of the work and the fingerings and pedallings of difficult passages. The registration only serves as a suggestion since the ways of using the instruments are as v…

Par BACH JOHANN-SEBASTIAN. It was 1995 when I had the fortune to listen to the freshly published recording of the suites performed by Mstislav Rostropovich. I would have given anything to be able to play them, and this was what inspired me to study the bass clarinet. The series of diverse emotions which I subsequently experienced made me see Music in a completely new way. I began learning them slo…