Works for Violin Solo: Sonatas, Partitas, Préludes & Fugues

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Max Reger & Sayaka Shoji

Works for Violin Solo is a collection of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed around 1720. These Baroque pieces explore polyphonic writing and dance-derived forms for unaccompanied violin, presenting significant technical and contrapuntal demands that mark an important phase in Bach's instrumental output and the development of the solo violin repertoire.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Prelude & Fugue in G minor, op. 117 no. 2: Prelude
    3:54
  2. 2.
    Prelude & Fugue in G minor, op. 117 no. 2: Fugue
    3:28
  3. 3.
    Sonata no. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: Adagio
    4:34
  4. 4.
    Sonata no. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: Fuga
    5:17
  5. 5.
    Sonata no. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: Siciliano
    3:22
  6. 6.
    Sonata no. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: Presto
    3:58
  7. 7.
    Prelude & Fugue in B minor, op. 117 no. 1: Prelude
    3:37
  8. 8.
    Prelude & Fugue in B minor, op. 117 no. 1: Fugue
    2:26
  9. 9.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: Allemande
    7:06
  10. 10.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: Double
    3:03
  11. 11.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: Courante
    3:42
  12. 12.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: Double Presto
    3:42
  13. 13.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: Sarabande
    4:18
  14. 14.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: Double II
    2:12
  15. 15.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: Bourree
    3:41
  16. 16.
    Partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: Double III
    3:55

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Chaconne in G minor, op. 117 no. 4
    12:15
  2. 3.
    Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Allemande
    4:46
  3. 4.
    Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Courante
    3:11
  4. 5.
    Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Sarabande
    4:28
  5. 6.
    Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Gigue
    4:29
  6. 7.
    Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Chaconne
    14:51

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