Bach - Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001{Grumiaux}
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Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 - 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites and Brandenburg Concertos; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations, The Well-Tempered Clavier and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.
Sonata for solo violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 (1720)
1. Adagio (0:00)
2. Fuga: Allegro (3:48)
3. Siciliano (9:02)
4. Presto (11:28)
Arthur Grumiaux, violin
Description by Blair Johnston [-]
The first work in J.S. Bach's Sei Solo a Violino senza Basso accompagnato, Libro Primo (Six Solos for violin without accompaniment, Book 1, all composed in 1720 -- pity that he never fashioned a "Book 2") is also the most frequently played of the lot: the Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001. Of the three sonatas in the volume (there are three sonatas and three partitas), the G minor is technically the simplest and also the shortest, making it a good entry-point for the violinist looking to tackle this magnificent volume of music. However, its greater accessibility vis-à-vis the other two sonatas in no way implies that it is somehow a less sophisticated piece of music -- indeed, its riches run as deep as those of any of the other pages in the volume, the great Chaconne of BWV 1004 included. Each of the three sonatas for solo violin is set in the slow-fast-slow-fast four-movement pattern of the sonata da chiesa, and in each the second movement is a fugue. In BWV 1001 the movements are: Adagio, Fuga, Siciliana, and Presto.
The Adagio is a wildly, but very elegantly, embellished progression of harmonies. All the embellishments -- and embellishments mean not only little turns, appoggiaturas, and the like, but also whole melodic gestures, scales, and small arpeggios -- are written out quite carefully by Bach -- the result is a work that might sound improvised but is most definitely not. The G minor Fuga is the most compact of the three fugues in the volume (and note that these are not in fact fugues in the proper sense of the word, but rather a kind of fugue/Baroque-concerto hybrid form). It was transcribed for lute by Bach at some later time (BWV 1000). The Siciliana is a gentle thing in B flat major; the main melody is played in the lowest register of the instrument while a warm commentary unfolds in the upper register. The Presto finale is a moto perpetuo in sixteenth notes whose 3/8 meter has at times a hint of cross-rhythm to it.
Pulisher info:
Alfred Dörffel (1821-1905)
Publisher Info.:
Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 27
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1879. Plate B.W. XXVII.
Copyright:
Public Domain
if this is in G minor, why is the Key Signature in D minor?
+TheViolinLife It was a notational convention of the Baroque era to use the key of D minor for G minor, it means that it is not necessarily in the Dorian mode.
+TheViolinLife In fact the piece has written on Dorian scale not major nor minor :)
+Yyy Ddd Dorian is minor not major. So yes minor either way.
The "rules" of notation were still not definite as we know them today. In fact in his sharp key pieces he indicates the F # twice and other sharps as well, in his original hand written that is, also the treble clef was movable which he would move in order to write higher notes. Similar to Mozart later using tenor clef in his piano sonatas in the left hand.
Maestro Prodigy The double f# notation if also present in other manuscripts, it's not just a Bach thing!
"My father's music has higher intentions, it isn't made to please (literally: "fill") the ear but to get the heart into movement."
- C. F. E. Bach, one of Bach's sons.
It does both to me, he might've been talking about the suites like this that are about dancing. Or it was just played completely different. Idk
@@mariedagoult1 Bach's music uses a lot of (borderline) dissonances.
He invented well tempered tuning to make it possible to change through all keys without sounding horrible. He effectively "dirtied" music up by making the distances between intervals imperfect to make the entire system capable of conveying more emotion.
I can only imagine how different his music must have impacted at the time, contrasting everything that had ever been made before.
Baroque was also a lot about dance so I imagine that plays a major role in how music was seen and used too.
I'm no expert in music history though, just my 2 cents.
@@Bassalicious I would argue that even today, JS Bach's solo violin music is an acquired taste. Saying that as a hobby violinist who plays or practises solo Bach!
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Eddy plays it so much that I need to listen to it
Maria: The Demon Barber of TH-cam SAME
Ling Ling can play this for 40 hours a day😂
MMLF 7619 Anything wrong with that?
same here lmao
Me to
He always manages to capture your attention in the first 3 seconds, genius.
Frédéric François Chopin so true, that change in colour in the first measure itself is so beautiful and sad at the same time
Thank you Fred, you do the same in every mazurka of yours
Shreenidhi Deshpande I love the change of color right at the 5th measure.
the sonata is called violin sonata in g minor. and played in the key in d minor !!!!!!!
Strange I'm already bored and it's been 2 seconds. Amazing.
Can you imagine what was going on inside of bach brain when writing this .this is amazing
Never thought about it that way... 🤔
a humongous amount of neurons firing! sorry i'm a nerdy Bach fan
his wife and one of his kids had just died so he wasn't the happiest
Um, I think I’ll just sprinkle some accidentals here and there and everywhere
I believe the music was delighted to find a channel.
This is amazing. I find it hard to believe that there is only one violin playing.
I find it hard to believe there are dislikes with one violin playing xD
It should be master or professional level violinist could playing this kind partiture very well.. and a soloist..
It sounds like a chamber orchestra. That's exactly the way how Bach does it.
You should listen to paganini’s caprice 6 if you think this is good.
I actually thought when I heard this by the first time that there was a full string orchestra playing
If you see a fugue for solo violin, you know its Bach.
What about Ysaye
@@gregwong9205 I was thinking that same exact thing!
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What were all these? Dances?
What about Bartok
0:00 Adagio
3:48 Allegro
9:02 Siciliano
11:28 Presto
thank you
Ula Chmielewska bless you. but quick correction, 3:48 is the fuga
thoyo It says Allegro below Fuga
jakob schoonover the name of the movement is Fuga. The time is allegro.
Thank you for that :)
The gold standard for all Bach solo recordings.
After listening to many, many renditions of this, I am inclined to agree with you.
The 2nd movement is just absolutely mind blowing genius!
I tried to do this part on a guitar years back. Someone transcribed it as a somewhat simplified version in A minor for guitar
This fugue, the d minor chaconne, and the E major prelude are probably the 3 best movements in the whole sonata/partita collection. Absolutely beautiful works.
Absolutely amazing
What is the 2nd movement about?
You mean the fugue? If so, then I totally understand. It’s so catchy, and also very VERY hard. How is it on only one violin?
Such unbelievable chords in the fugue!
100% playing skills, no editing.
I’m learning this piece on the mandolin and the chords still give me trouble!! And the mandolin has frets!!!!
@@natespringer9934 did you learn it? I'm interested to hear your progress!
@@apostolismoschopoulos1876 Oh I’m still working on it haha, it’s really difficult, I’m at the point now where I can go from beginning to end without having that many problems it just doesn’t sound that great if that makes sense
the fuge is sublime
All Bach's work is :)
I thought this said fudge
Fugue*
I'm a beginner pianist, didn't know it was possible to play fugues in the violin XD
4:19 is my favourite moment. So passionate yet with so much character
i thought i was the only one that loved those 2 measures
Saaaaaame!!!
3:59 the 4th bar of allegro is my favourite
this guy plays it absolutely perfectly
My favorite is 8:41 to 9:00. I couldn’t tell you why though, I just like the run, and the chord before that.
This piece is Magical. Normally, 14 mins goes by for me slowly, but this, it didn't feel like 15 mins. It was played well and the piece itself almost just brings you to another place. Thank God For Bach.
One of the best versions of this I've ever heard. So in tune and clear. No interpretive exaggeration either. Just perfect.
The tone and perfection in those chords!! Speechless....
The triple and quadruple stops...I am speechless.
@@liamford4806 When you play multiple strings on a bowed string instrument. Yes, it’s a chord, but the technique is vastly different than, say, a guitar.
@@borisvandruff7532 still a chord
I'm really in the mood for Bach chamber music at the moment, wow!
Sonata en el menor violín Bach
I must complement you fully for your own excellent sonata for solo violin mr. Bartok!
Literally my favorite piece of all time
This is brilliant… being able to bring out different voices with just one violin is such a mesmerising skill.
That’s called a fugue, which is synonymous with J.S Bach.
@@alixx_legenddark_xx2819 was referring more to the performer. I’m not a violinist but that seems like an awfully difficult technique
This is hands down the most beautiful violin tone I have heard to date...
This performance of this piece tells me I know NOTHING for the playing of this exquisite instrument, the violin!
This is a really big help. I'm trying to learn this piece. Very tricky.
did you find it?
I'm also learning this piece, I'm on the middle, veryyyyy difficult D':
Im learing this by my self veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy harrrrrrd
Same! I got the 1st couple measures down, than afterwards, it's a mess.
@@RicChess what do u find hard?
Too fast, too slow, too much vibrato, not enough vibrato, too this, too that. Welcome to TH-cam land.
you're literally at 69 likes
@@tulloGS Nope, he is at 139
@@Alessandro90933 BRUH that comment was from a month ago
@@tulloGS Just a stupid joke BRUH
@@path4606 Nope, he is at 187
I found this by searching “That one Bach violin piece” 🤣🤣
😂lol
It'll always work
I would have thought that's the Chaconne from Partita in D minor...
ha,ha🥴
Thank you for saying piece instead of fricking SONG
The quality of the sound, the clarity of the fast passages are incredible. And the interpretation is unique!!!
6:55 - one of my favorite parts 😁love how the lower notes come through
Thanks for using this version to put the score to. The purest musicianship for the purest music.
The dislike button was hit because they were practicing the piece on their device.
Hiyori Williams hahah I am on here to help me play this song like this 😂😂😂
@Evellyn Caydens show me this violin app that u speak of lmao
😄😄😄😄😄😃😃😁😊
Bach you are simply a GENIUS , this violinist as well !! So beautiful speechless
Thank you for letting me follow along with the music. It helped me hear the notes more clearly as well.
This is just amazing. I've grown to love this piece. I'll admit I was once turned off by the way it started, but it was mostly because I didn't know what was going on. I gave it another chance, and now that I understand the phrases and whats going on a bit more I've really grown into it. Truly a work of art. It sounds Godly. I also love the bit of info you gave about the piece itself. Really enjoy reading informative stuff like that about music
Same here, the opening was…….a bit subpar, I’ll admit, but I decided to listen to the rest, and I loved it. I still hate the opening btw.
I'm a violist going on five years, wanting to learn violin as well. My chamber director (who is a natural violinist) played a few measures of the beginning of the Fuga today and I have fallen so in love with it. Bach is absolutely fantastic. If only I had a violin as well. 🎻
@dejuren Lmao it is a very difficult instrument to find sonatas and such for. Half the time they end up being cello sonatas translated onto a different clef. But yes, i can sure say any viola player simply walked into being the most underwhelming instrument the string orchestra can provide.
@dejuren what an inspiring idea!! I may follow up on that one of these days, I've dabbled just a little in composing smaller pieces.
Im also a Viola student, and I ve been training into mentally transposing different clefs for Viola
In this case, just imagine the g from the treble clef (the second lowest line) is your middle c, and play like that, it will sound a fifth lower, with no need of searching weir arrangements or changing to violin 😁
Hope this is useful
This piece inspired me a lot when I was younger, always special to me.
This piece is beautiful. Mournful and eerie, but with a touch of acceptance. It's wonderful.
Love your channel. I thank you for all the work you have put in.
I really loved Goldberg Variations and played some on piano too but this sonata makes me think I didn't play Bach before. Grumiaux plays Bach perfectly.
I am learning this piece on the violin right now - thank you so much for uploading!
So delicate, so beautiful, yet so hard.
When I was in college in the seventies I looked to order a recording of the Bach solo violin sonatas and partitas. Because I had a good stereo system, bad vinyl pressings drove me nuts, so I only ordered from labels that used good vinyl. One was Philips, so the version I ended up with was the Grumiaux. It remains my favorite. For one thing, he takes it easy with the rubato. I don’t want the flow interrupted every time the violinist goes for a chord. And he voices the fugue great.
It’s just incredible. Just masterpiece after masterpiece. Bach was a genius. It’s just a joy to discover every piece of his.
Is very interesting all the comments, no one mention the intensity and the blood, hot blood that this master is able to put into this work
I’m coming over and over and every time there is a different nuances MAGIC
This makes my heart feel bigger than my chest
Thanks sam
wow same it describes my feeling perfectly
Bach says ,
it's hard to find melodies that resonate as pleasantly in your ears and mind as these fabulous performances of my works with splendid skill and specutacular technique and makes you feel peaceful and calm
From
Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵 .
Grumiaux is impeccable as most of the time although I don't remember when he isn't and I don't care so I will just make a toast to George Enescu, his teacher and the greatest classical composer of not only 20th century who was also a genius fiddler as well as a pianist and a Romanian and a human being that embodied music to it's totality. Grumiaux is one of the proofs that it is so. What a blessing!
Didn’t realize Enescu was his teacher. He taught Menuhin also.
He is the student of ALFRED DUBOIS, himself being the student of Eugene Ysaie... not Enesco.
Grumiaux studied COMPOSITION with Enesco for a short period of time. The "divorce" was pretty acrimonious. I never found out the reason. It was fashionable to take a couple of lessons with Enesco ( they weren't cheap !) but let me stop here....@@marcvilleneuve1889
Nachdem ich bisher gedacht habe, dass nur Hilary Hahn diese Sonate beherrscht, habe ich durch diese Interpretation einen völlig neuen Durchblick, besonders vom 1. Satz.
man this sounds so good to my ears
this is by far my favourite sonata
Lovely and beautiful music.
the most beautiful musk. Great, I love it.
Thanks for sharing the beautiful musk!
It's my sleepover, I get to choose the music.
El carácter, la profundidad de la música de Bach; el pensamiento se encadena, se nutre, de sus sentidos.
Crystal clear interpretation, oh wow. Adagio is my absolute favourite, and currently attempting to learn it. Since I am self-taught, this post is tremendous help, thank you! :-)
I saw that other violin players play the fugue (changing some little parts)
this version is the most pure, according to the original version, very good, I'll use it to finish to learn this piece, thanks!!
That was heavenly!
How on earth can 68 people not like this ?
Alex Pond I know right?
jealous people that can’t play it
Absolutly one the best from the Master and the violinist plays very occurate. My personal opinion Bach had a many different (good) faces but this sounds like : you are in my soul😌
One person tried to hit the like button and missed
If you waited you would have been #45, that would've fitted you exactly.
No emotion??? You must be joking. Grumiaux although playing a Guarnerius, which also helps although he himself is a virtuoso, plays in such a way that his genius conveys the mysticism of the work, not being driven by emotion as many performers who play as for themselves and do not transmit the message of the music. But if you hear more carefully, then you will understand that the emotion is present in that mysticism.
I didn't know that sheet music could have emotions.
vibrato on violin sounds amazing
Grumiaux and francescatti are the only two to ever make me question if I was truly listening to the violin or another instrument. Middle and higher register notes sound like a horn instrument.
TWOSETVIOLIN introduced me to such beautiful pieces of classical music. I seriously can't thank them enough. I would love to meet Eddy and Brett some day.
Same
I'm in love with this piece 😍
Thank you so much! Love this score!
So Beautiful ! Thank you !
This so wonderful music I’m going to say that I’ve never heard music so good like this
Is it strange that this moved me to tears of joy?
I cry every time I listen to the fugue. especially the quiet modulating arpeggios towards the end
No, that’s just Bach :D
11:35 is my favorite part
Why is this even so beautiful
Gorgeous!!!
very beautiful music
masterpiece of humanity
The first chord sounds like how falling in love feels like.
thankyou bb...a beautifully presented and v inspiring bach with violin part.........
I am a junior high school student,I am going to play this at the school orchestra concert,I hope I can play this as beautiful as him
05:28 activates something in the back of my brain. I can't wait til I can play this part at tempo!
Chloe said this was the hardest piece she ever played so i came.
Yeap me too. And I'm starting this piece soon. Sooooo wish me luck
@@Poreckylife good luck
Magic .
thank you~!
Grumiaux was a master.
His chords are amasing
Perfection!!!
Marvelous!
Ling ling would be proud
Been a year. Hi again
Maravilhosa expressão do sentimento mediante o som solitário de uma mente inata!!!
If you enjoy this kind if music then you can appreciate the intricacies of the intention in every note. Not just sounds put together to sound good. But the sounds tell a story
It's also crazy to think someone came up with this way of writing sound as a language we can see. A visual representation of sound
Me deshago, me quiebra. Impresionante la catarsis que uno experimenta con Bach
All symphonies, operas, etc, are like disco music for teenagers, compared to this..... JS Bach, greatest artist and composer ever in earth... and in the universe....
Это шедевр. Вся музыка в каждом звуке. Интересно,что было на Душе у этого гения ,когда он писал это? Думаю ,много всего здесь.
Я в странном состоянии Души,все встревожено внутри.
i just tried following the notes and i couldn´t, how can someone play this :O AMAZING
I love this music
5:18 to 5:25 Vivaldi lives here 😍
Yes 💩👻
Adagio 0:00
Fugue 3:51
Siciliano 9:05
Presto 11:30
beautiful piece (:
My religious is this music… this music is holy!!!!
Why are bach violin piece so light and charming
Wow!! It sound like two violins, but it's only one!
Dios Santo..... Nada iguala a Bach.....
Chopin, personalmente, lo supera:
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kazallaADS Yo no me puedo decidir entre ambos.
Es un maestro, esta fuga es bellisima.
8:23 is just beautiful
Legendary
Certifié intergalactique!