JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Sei Suonate à Cembalo certato è Violino Solo, BWV 1014-1019

CD I

Sonata I (B minor), BWV 1014
1 Adagio
2 Allegro
3 Andante
4 Allegro

Sonata II (A major), BWV 1015
5 (Dolce)
6 Allegro assai
7 Andante un poco
8 Presto

Sonata III (E major), BWV 1016
9 Adagio
10 Allegro
11 Adagio ma non tanto
12 Allegro

CD II

Sonata IV (C minor), BWV 1017
1 Largo
2 Allegro
3 Adagio
4 Allegro

Sonata V (F minor), BWV 1018
5 (Largo)
6 Allegro
7 Adagio
8 Vivace

Sonata VI (G major), BWV 1019
9 Allegro
10 Largo
11 Allegro
12 Adagio
13 Allegro

Sonata VI, BWV 1019a
14 Adagio
15 Cantabile ma un poco Adagio

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About this CD

Two rising stars in today’s firmament of Baroque music performance, Leila Schayegh and Jörg Halubek, join forces to record one of the major challenges in their joint repertory: the six Bach Violin Sonatas, BWV 1014-1019.

The collection’s title, Sei Suonate à Cembalo certato è Violino Solo, reflects the close partnership demanded of the violin and harpsichord players, with Bach moving away from the idea of continuo support for a solo instrument and constantly making new technical demands on the musicians and thereby approaching the concept of the triosonata. Completed by around 1725, most of these richlycharacterful works combine the slow-fast-slowfast sequence of movements found in Italian works and a cantabile tone with elements of German contrapuntal style.

The artistic partnership of Schayegh and Halubek, now in its tenth year, has seen them record chamber music by Jean-Marie Leclair, CPE Bach and Giovanni Mossi but the Bach Violin Sonatas represents their first joint recording for Glossa (Schayegh took part in the recent much-acclaimed recording of Caldara Trio Sonatas, Op 1 with Amandine Beyer for the label, as well as regularly having featured on many of La Risonanza’s Glossa releases). As Schayegh and Habulek mention in their shared booklet essay guiding the listener through the Violin Sonatas (and through the 12 represented keys which are also reflected in the set’s graphic design), they have added two movements from the earlier version of the final Sonata, BWV 1019a as a kind of cheerful and delightful encore.