Complete Suites for Unaccompanied Cello and Sonatas for Viola Da Gamba [Paperback] Review

This is a clean, inexpensive copy of the Bach Gesselschaft edition, much less error prone than some of the the Gesselschafts. The only real problem here is the peverse clef choice. The cello parts are written with bass clef, occasionally using an alto clef when it goes up high, while the gamba sonatas use bass clef with the tenor clef for high parts. This is opposite of standard practices. As a viol player, I can read the cello parts with no problem (apart from the occasional drop below the range), but the tenor clef is completely confusing. There are alternative versions of the cello suites in the appendix with tenor, but the viol player is out of luck.

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The 6 cello suites (BWV 1007-1012) and 3 sonatas (BWV 1027-1029) (played most commonly today on the cello and harpsichord), richly demonstrating Bach's intuitive feel for the cello and his technical grasp of its capabilities for musical expression. Bach-Gesellschaft edition, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig.


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