The Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Dmitry Sitkovetsky

The Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin are a set of six works for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed around 1720. They exemplify Baroque compositional techniques, combining contrapuntal writing and dance-form movements to extend polyphonic possibilities and technical demands for the solo violin, and they occupy a central place in Bach's output and the Baroque solo-string repertoire.
First released: 1994

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Sonata #1 in Sol Minor, BWV 1001 - Adagio
    4:20
  2. 2.
    Sonata #2 in La Minor, BWV 1003 - Grave
    4:46
  3. 3.
    Sonata #2 in La Minor, BWV 1003 - Fuga
    8:29
  4. 4.
    Sonata #2 in La Minor, BWV 1003 - Allegro
    4:30
  5. 5.
    Sonata #3 in Do Major BWV 1005 - Largo
    3:18
  6. 6.
    Sonata #3 in Do Major BWV 1005 - Allegro assai
    3:55