violin
Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 — Preludio
Johann Sebastian Bach
Arosh — violin
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- Recorded
- Length
- 0:08
- Where
- Recorded at home
Programme note
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The Preludio is unbroken semiquavers from the first bar to the last, with no rest anywhere for the right arm. Bach thought well enough of it to reuse the whole movement twice more, once with a full orchestra behind it.
Played on a single violin the piece has to imply harmony that is never actually sounded — the ear assembles chords out of a line that only ever plays one note at a time. Getting that to work is mostly a matter of which notes are allowed to ring and which are cut.