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Concerto in A minor
- Instrument: Violin
- Sub Category: Violin & Keyboard
- Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Publisher: Bärenreiter
- Editor/Arranger: Manze, Andrew
- ISBN: M006466887
- RCM Grade: 8A
- Product #: BACH106
for Violin, Strings and Basso Continuo
Today the three violin concertos, BWV 1041–1043, are among Johann Sebastian Bach’s best known and most popular instrumental works and enjoy a permanent place in the concert repertoire.
The blending of ritornello and episode that typifies Bach’s concertos as a whole is especially evident in the densely contrapuntal first movement, where the concise main theme regularly recurs to accompany the solo violin. This somber opening movement is followed by a harmonically far-reaching Andante which develops an expressive cantilena above an almost ubiquitous theme in the bass. The finale is a fugal gigue dominated by a madcap 9/8 rhythm and ever-increasing virtuosity from the soloist.
This Urtext edition is based in the “New Bach Edition”. The revised violin and piano reduction includes an Urtext solo part as well as a second solo part with bowing, fingering and comments on performance by Andrew Manze.
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