Daniel Estrem JS Bach on 8 string guitar, vol 1 Total time: 75:32 Release date: 2/13/2010 Location of artist: MN, USA This artist has 4 other albums

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The more I study and play the music of J. S. Bach the more I realize how incredibly adept he was at assimilating a variety of styles and somehow making it all his own. Each piece has its own unique flavor and when listening to a lot of western music written after Bach's time (regardless of genre) much of it seems to be derived from the master.

The 8-string allowed me to preserve the intervals and keep the music true to the composer's intentions. The only way for me to maintain Bach's polyphonic lines was to multi-track 2 or 3 parts. Most of the pieces required the time-consuming task of transposing the music into guitar-compatible keys. I used an 8-string guitar made by Stephen Kakos for the lower notes and a 6-string guitar made by German Vazquez Rubio for the higher end.

m3u audio streams (if the flash player above doesn't work for you): [hifi lofi] Play all tracks as an m3u audio stream (or xspf, ogg, mp3 file) [hifi lofi] 01-Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring from Cantata BWV 147 (3:25) [hifi lofi] 02-Gavotte from French Suite No.5 BWV 816 (1:23) [hifi lofi] 03-Allemande from French Suite No.5 BWV 816 (3:16) [hifi lofi] 04-Sinfonia 11 BWV 797 (3:25) [hifi lofi] 05-Sleepers Awake (Wachet Auf) BWV 645 (3:29) [hifi lofi] 06-Sinfonia 2 BWV 788 (2:29) [hifi lofi] 07-Air on the G String from Orchestral Suite No 3 BWV 1068 (4:14) [hifi lofi] 08-Invention 4 BWV 775 (1:08) [hifi lofi] 09-Prelude 1 Book 1 Well-Tempered Clavier BWV 846 (2:09) [hifi lofi] 10-Invention 6 BWV 777 (2:53) [hifi lofi] 11-Sarabande from French Overture BWV 831 (3:01) [hifi lofi] 12-Bourree 1 and 2 from French Overture BWV 831 (3:23) [hifi lofi] 13-Arioso Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 156 (3:45) [hifi lofi] 14-Sinfonia 13 BWV 799 (2:07) [hifi lofi] 15-Ich Ruf Zu Dir BWV 639 (2:45) [hifi lofi] 16-Sheep May Safely Graze from Cantata BWV 208 (4:56) [hifi lofi] 17-Prelude 12 Book 1 WTC BWV 857 (3:50) [hifi lofi] 18-Bourree 1 and 2 from English Suite No.2 BWV 807 (5:53) [hifi lofi] 19-Sarabande from English Suite No.2 BWV 807 (2:57) [hifi lofi] 20-Gigue from English Suite No.2 BWV 807 (1:49) [hifi lofi] 21-Aria from Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (3:09) [hifi lofi] 22-Variation 1 from Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (2:37) [hifi lofi] 23-Sinfonia 7 BWV 793 (2:29) [hifi lofi] 24-Minuet from Anna Magdalena notebook (1725) BWV Anh 118 (1:10) [hifi lofi] 25-Fantasie BWV 904 (3:50)