ExclusiveBach: Organ Trio Sonata No. 5 In C Major, Bwv 529, I. Allegro

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Trio Sonata No. 5 In C Major, Bwv 529, I. Allegro. This beautiful piece was played by GarsuMene. It is a royalty free music provided by pond5.com.

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With his son Wilhelm Friedemann in mind – or maybe for a prestigious publication – Bach put together six magnificent sonatas for organ in the late 1720’s. The organ was probably the instrument on which he excelled the most. In this Sonata in C major, he reused a short slow work from his Weimar period, now surrounded by newly composed fast outer movements, each with an equally impressive structure. In addition, Bach cleverly integrated a variety of styles that should be mastered by a modern organist of the day.

The dynamic Allegro with an ABA structure and two themes filled with quick runs would work well as a galant trio for two flutes and a bass. The slow movement, which according to various early copies was often slipped between the very short Prelude and fugue, BWV 545, shifts the emphasis from rhythm to harmony. A sigh motif and a sort of implicit crescendo on repeated notes turn the first theme into intense basic material for what follows, while tension is provided by the chromatic counter-theme, filled with small harmonic steps. Bach may have taken inspiration for the theme of the last movement from Corelli, whose music had an immense impact. Even more so than in the first movement, the atmosphere here is determined by ‘fugal tricks’. Listen, for example, to how the ‘head’ of the theme regularly pokes through the musical web like a signal. Source: bachvereniging.nl

The video was shot in the Gasterental valley in Switzerland by Christian Schlegel. The video was edited by Wenjing Ma.

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