Johann Sebastian Bach: Air on the G String: Piano: Instrumental Work

Flexible String Ensemble-A set that provides easy yet wonderfully satisfying arrangements of three famous chorale harmonisations.Grade: 3 - 4

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. 50 original piano works and arrangements of great music from iconic Baroque composer J.S. Bach / Date parution : 2023-06-02/ Recueil / Piano

In 2001 Bärenreiter issued a newly engraved keyboard reduction and solo parts to this concerto based on the acclaimed New Bach Edition.The present expanded publication goes a step further in that it offers not only the two solo violin parts as presented in the New Bach Edition but also two additional parts with fingerings and bowings by the baroque specialist Andrew Manze.Manze also offers players enlightened comments (English/German) on historical performance practices dealing with how the instrument was held fingerings bowing shifting the use of open strings and much much more.

 Arrangements de Régis Prudhomme Quatre danses extraites du ' Petit livre d'Anna Magdalena Bach ', adaptées pour quintette à cordes,Polonaise, Menuets et Musette,Ce recueil est constitué de pièces musicales faciles composées ou transcrites par Johann Sebastian Bach et offert à sa femme Anna Magdalena en 1725, Les oeuvres pédagogiques de J S Bach sont essentiellement pour orgue ou clavecin, La transcription étant une pratique courante à l'époque, il a semblé intéressant d'adapter pour cordes certaines des danses, les plus faciles et les plus appréciées des jeunes instrumentistes, Collection Le Temps des Basses / Quintette A Cordes

Par HYUNG-KI JOO RICHARD. Hyung-ki Joo composed his first string quartet for the graduation concert during his last term at the Yehudi Menuhin School in 1990. In it, he pays tribute to six different artists from music, painting and literature: Henry Purcell, Samuel Beckett, Ludwig van Beethoven, Edvard Munch, Johann Sebastian Bach and Arnold Schönberg. This edition is the study score. For the set of parts please click here: UE36967/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

10 Fugues For String Quartet Vol. 2-The idea for these arrangements came to me whilst listening to the Hagen Quartet's beautiful recording of the fugues that form part of Haydn's 'Sun Quartets' Op. 20. The spirit and influence of J.S. Bach in particular his Well Tempered Clavier Book II courses through these three miraculous Haydn fugues. Like the viol consort the string quartet suits this kind of composition (the fugue) with all four instruments sufficiently similar in character to each other to match the extraordinary unity and economy of the counterpoint. A string quartet playing Bach fugues is a good example of a harmonious relationship between form andcontent: just as there is a unifying principle behind the construction of the four string instruments so there is (usually) a single theme or subject that unifies the construction of a four-part fugue. Thus the form enacts the content telling you something about the text and message within. Apart from Haydn's and a handful of other composers' wondrous creations there's little fugal writing for string quartet at least in comparison with the abundance of other forms. This was another reason to make these arrangements. The quartet offers a melodic independence impossible to achieve on a single instrument. And I believe the technical and interpretative challenges posed by this repertoire – lightness of sound and rhythmic fluidity for example - will be very valuable to quartets seeking the holy grail: a unified sound. Perhaps the simplest and most compelling reason for this work is that I just love this music more than I can say. These dazzling pieces mostly fast bright and in major keys show Bach at his most playful funny and mischievous composing for an instrument rarely associated with these qualities. And so I'm very happy to offer string quartets these little know fugues written by my favourite composer - a violinist and violist himself but above all a master