Description
Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata in C major for Alto Recorder and Obbligato Harpsichord, arranged from the Sonata in A major for Flute and Obbligato Harpsichord, BWV 1032. Arranged, edited, and reconstructed by Michael Marissen.
Bach’s Sonata in A major for Flute and Obbligato Harpsichord is one of the most important chamber works in the flute’s repertoire.
But it has one big problem: 40 percent of the first movement is missing in Bach’s autograph manuscipt. The eminent Bach scholar (and recorder player) Professor Michael Marissen has completed this movement, based on Bach’s style and all the clues in the manuscript for the first time ever.
Now Instant Harmony presents his edition of the flute sonata in a transposition into C major for alto recorder and obbligato harpsichord. This differs from other people’s recorder transpositions of the work in being taken from his historically informed completion of the first movement.
