JS Bach on Solo Ukulele Volume 2 by Daniel Estrem Daniel Estrem : JS Bach on Solo Ukulele Volume 2.
 Colorful classical guitar.

Many of the instrumental works of Johann Sebastian Bach have the magical ability to be performed on a number of different instruments in addition to the ones they were composed for. The sonatas heard on this recording are from the Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin. The instrument used is a tenor ukulele with an unconventional tuning that has the same intervals as the violin (fifths).

Bach wrote these works around 1720 while he was Kapellmeister at the court of Anhalt- Cothen and with this collection firmly established the technical capability of the violin as a solo instrument. It is speculated that Bach himself gave the first performance. According to his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (C.P.E. Bach), "in his youth, and until the approach of old age, he played the violin cleanly and powerfully." It was during this period that he also composed the Brandenburg Concerti, the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Six Cello Suites.

The Sonatas and Partitas were first published in 1843, nine decades after the composer's death. The original manuscript was famously saved after nearly being used as butcher paper.

Songs:

1. Adagio from Sonata 1 BWV1001 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
2. Fuga (allegro) from Sonata 1 BWV1001 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
3. Siciliana from Sonata 1 BWV1001 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
4. Presto from Sonata 1 BWV1001 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
5. Grave from Sonata 2 BWV1003 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
6. Fuga from Sonata 2 BWV1003 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
7. Andante from Sonata 2 BWV1003 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
8. Allegro from Sonata 2 BWV1003 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
9. Adagio from Sonata 3 BWV1005 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
10. Allegro Assai from Sonata 3 BWV1005 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

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Release date: 12/14/2013
Daniel Estrem lives in Minnesota USA

Tagged as: Classical, Baroque, Instrumental, Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ukulele

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