Johann Sebastian Bach

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is a masterpiece from the library of Johann Sebastian Bach. Originally composed as a chorale for one of his Cantatas, Bach's well known melody contains a standard classic t...

Bach's Two Minuets published by Santorella Publications are masterfully arranged into one brilliant display of counterpoint. Each minuet is clearly stated then intermingled in a crowd pleasing finale....

In an arrangement for violin, this celebrated movement concludes both parts of Bach's Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben ('Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life'), composed for the revised version of...

The famous J.S. Bach Toccata in D minor for organ BWV 565 is arranged here for solo violin by Japp Schröder, with introductory essay by Peter Williams.

Ave Maria is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin prayer Ave Maria, originally published in 1853 as Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach. The piece consists of a melody by...

Originally published in Bach for Violin, this is a lovely arrangement of a contrasting pair of dances. The first is lively and in a major key, and the second more sombre in the tonic minor.

Arranged here for solo violin, this pair of short menuets begins cheerfully with arched phrases before moving on to a more sombre dance in the tonic minor. Bach's music for solo string instruments is...

This is the middle section of a substantial organ piece, and takes the form of a highly expressive melody over a realized accompaniment. The violin line is filled with chromatic inflections, wide inte...

In this arrangement by Kathy and David Blackwell, the original Aria melody is played by the violin in sections A and C, while sections B and D form a kind of decorated repeat, with the melody swapped...

This celebrated Gigue concludes the third partita, a genre built on a sequence of dance movements like Bach's the suites. With busy semiquaver runs at a lively tempo, this piece is perfect for practis...

This Sonata is the opening movement of a cantata, rearranged here for solo violin. The dotted rhythms recall the style of a French overture, a form often associated with pageantry and procession, and...

The well-known movement from Bach's Advent cantata was first performed in Leipzig in 1731, and rearranged here for solo violin by Kathy and David Blackwell. The first line translates literally as 'Awa...

With lively semiquavers and well-crafted melodies, this set of two passepieds by Bach is arranged here for violin by Kathy and David Blackwell, who are award-winning authors of OUP's educational strin...

With lively quavers and stately rhythms, this Gavotte by Bach is arranged here for violin by Kathy and David Blackwell, who are award-winning authors of OUP's educational string series. Originally pub...

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this prelude is an arrangement of the fourth of a set of six preludes for harpsichord by Bach, skillfully arranged here for violin and piano.

This arrangement for violin and piano of a keyboard piece carries the three-part contrapuntal texture typical of Bach's sonatas for violin and keyboard. From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 3...

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