The opening of this sonata in D minor, performed by Matthias Havinga for All of Bach, has an uncertain and emphatically andante sound. To the ears of seventeenth and eighteenth-century musicologists the key of D minor represented melancholy, devotion, solemnity and seriousness. Following this tentative start, Bach launches into experimentation, by juggling motifs almost wildly and searching for new keys.
Recorded for the project All of Bach on September 21st 2016 at the Sint-Bavokerk, Haarlem. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/2uZuMj5.
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Matthias Havinga, organist
Organ: Christian Müller, 1738
J. S. Bach
Cantatas:
BWV 109 [25:11]
BWV 38 [16:29]
BWV 98 [13:20]
BWV 188 [23:40]
Soprano:Joanne Lunn
Counter-tenor: William Towers
Tenor: Paul Agnew
Bass: Gotthold Schwarz
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage:
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, England
Volume 11 Cd 2
Johan Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Concentus Musicus Wien
Peter Schreier — Tenor
Robert Holl — Bass
Soloists of the Tolzer Knabenchor
Chorusmaster: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden
Fisrt Part: Cantatas No 1 — 3
