Bach - 3 Sonatas for Gamba BWV 1027-1019. Edition for viola

Three Gamba Sonatas BWV 1027-1019 by Jean-Sébastien Bach for viola and harpsichord.

Editor : Ernst-Günter Heinemann.

Fingering: Klaus Schilde.
Fing. Va.: Jürgen Weber

Bach's gamba sonatas form an important addition to the repertoire for low-register string instruments. Each of the three sonatas was composed as a separate piece and has come down to us in that form. In short, unlike so much of Bach's chamber music, the gamba sonatas do not constitute a unified cycle. Nonetheless they have several features in common : they are consistently written in three obligato voices (the sporadic continuo interpolations can be safely disregarded) and all three are arrangements of works originally intended for other combinations of instruments. (...)