BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN, TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR CLASSIC GUITAR, transcribed arranged Javier Calderon. LIBRO E CD
LIBRO DI MUSICA CLASSICA, CON CD,
SPARTITI PER CHITARRA CON PENTAGRAMMA.
CONTIENE LA FAMOSA ''Chaconne in D Minor BWV 1004'' DI BACH. TRASCRITTA PER LA PRIMA VOLTA PER CHITARRA DA SEGOVIA.
Product Description:
Absolute, universal, and harmonious - Bach's music is as profoundly satisfying and uplifting today as it was in his era. One of the most eloquent and expressive guitarists of our time, Javier Calderon, presents these timeless pieces, expertly arranged and transcribed for the classic guitar. Selections include: Sonata BWV 1001 (Adagio, Fugue, Siciliano, and Presto); Chaconne in D Minor BWV 1004; Prelude in D Minor, Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro BWV 998; Suite for Lute BWV 996 (Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bourree, and Gigue); Prelude for Lute BWV 999; and Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Written in standard notation only with minimal, unobtrusive left-hand fingering. The attached performance CD presents the author's exquisite rendition of every selection in the book.
Javier Calderon
J.S.BACH Transcriptions for Guitar
It is difficult to imagine how a composer of the stature of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) could have lived for 65 years, having written some of the world's most universally accessible and beautifully original compositions in every manner and for practically every instrument of the late Baroque period, in relative obscurity. Trained initially by his father and later by his elder brother, Johann Sebastian is now considered the greatest in a long line of noteworthy musicians and composers of the Bach family. Neither tormented by the specter of financial ruin nor obscured by less competent musical pedagogues, Bach was nevertheless no more well known than a host of other reasonably successful musical functionaries of his time. He was often influenced in his composing career more by external circumstances than by any driving internal impulse to create. And yet, the element of genius is indisputable evident in his music, a fact which elevates his work above that of his equally dedicated contemporaries. His music is as profoundly satisfying and uplifting today as it was in his own time, yet he fit in to his world as comfortably and as unremarkably as the average citizen of any era, he was no brooding outcast seeking to shatter the foundations of his own creative medium, an image that so often accompanies the notions of genius and artistry Indeed, what makes Bach's greatness especially recognizable is the extent to which it celebrates and improves upon the very spirit of his age. Absolute, universal, and harmonious, Bach's music reflects back the sum total of its essential parts, devoid of their imperfections. It is as though he had refined or purified the very elements that made up his world and, by doing so, crystallized them into their immortal expression. It is no wonder that, upon listening to his music, one is transported back to an age largely unfamiliar to him and yet simultaneously immersed in an intangible musical realm whose existence is everlasting. Bach, in this way, was not the artistic antithesis of his age but rather its ultimate revelation. If his music still recalls the religiosity of his day, it is no less as the sanctification of itself as the structure of musical perfection.
The Music
The Sonata, (BWV 1001) originally intended for solo violin was composed in 1720 in Coethen . It is well known that this piece was influenced by Bach's experience in composing for the lute, an instrument which, by Bach's time, had already seen its prime. Wistful, even reminiscent of early music, the Adagio begins with a slowness that is, at the same time, resolute - not yet echoing the multi-voiced scenarios that in large part define and punctuate Bach's vast musical repertoire. The Adagio is much more self-contained, without the obvious symmetry so pervasive in other pieces, suggesting a simpler composition.
The Fugue which follows begins the standard cascade of evenly patterned voices, livelier and yet balanced even as it breaks into centrally placed, almost rhapsodic variations that come into blossom throughout the movement. In the Siciliano we are met with an almost folksy, song-like melody, simple without yet being simplistic, sitting in the work itself like an island away from the more serious themes that dominate the prior and proceeding movements. In the final Presto, we encounter once again the lively exuberance of the Fugue. Full of energy and continuing the merriment of the Siciliano with a wilder, less introverted pacing, it is nevertheless neither hurried nor lacking in the synchronization that brings full circle the three prior episodes.
The Chaconne (BWV 1004) from Bach's solo violin Partita in D minor written in Coethen around 1720 and arranged for Lute, is one of the most famous works in this series. According to Donald Grout in A History of Western Music, Bach here "demonstrated his ability to create the illusion of a harmonic and contrapuntal texture by means of multiple stops or single melodic lines which outline or suggest an interplay of independent voices, a technique going back to the Lute composers of the Renaissance and related to the style of the French Lutenists and Clavecinists ofthe middle and late Baroque". The stillness of the full chords which announce this composition suggest the discipline and control which only mastery over this technique could produce. The Chaconne is neither morose nor worldly. In places practically devoid of emotion, removed from either joy or sorrow, it nevertheless breaks again and again into a beauty, haunting in its appeal. While both dramatic and outspoken, the repetition of movement to overtake the ...
Format: Book/CD Set
Contents:
SONATA BWV 1001 - ADAGIO -- J. S. BACH
SONATA BWV 1001 - FUGUE -- J. S. BACH
SONATA BWV 1001 - SICILIANO -- J. S. BACH
SONATA BWV 1001 - PRESTO -- J. S. BACH
CHACONNE IN D MINOR BWV 1004 -- J. S. BACH
PRELUDE IN D MINOR -- J. S. BACH
PRELUDE - FUGUE & ALLEGRO BWV 998 - PRELUDE -- J. S. BACH
PRELUDE - FUGUE & ALLEGRO BWV 998 - FUGUE -- J. S. BACH
PRELUDE - FUGUE & ALLEGRO BWV 998 - ALLEGRO -- J. S. BACH
SUITE FOR LUTE BWV 996 - PRELUDE -- J. S. BACH
SUITE FOR LUTE BWV 996 - ALLEMANDE -- J. S. BACH
SUITE FOR LUTE BWV 996 - PRELUDE -- J. S. BACH
SUITE FOR LUTE BWV 996 - ALLEMANDE -- J. S. BACH
SUITE FOR LUTE BWV 996 - COURANTE -- J. S. BACH
SUITE FOR LUTE BWV 996 - SARABANDE -- J. S. BACH
SUITE FOR LUTE BWV 996 - BOURREE -- J. S. BACH
SUITE FOR LUTE BWV 996 - GIGUE -- J. S. BACH
PRELUDE FOR LUTE BWV 999 -- J. S. BACH
JESU, JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING -- J. S. BACH
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