Bach J. S. Transcriptions for 1, 2 and 3 guitars

It's difficult to find music without spiritual charge in the creations of J. S. Bach (1650–1750). Everything from menuet to oratorio is filled with thought and light. There is no doubt that the arranger and the performer of his compositions should feel the great responsibility.

Investigating Bach's music we can notice two curious moments: the first is that Bach often created one composition for different musical instruments — for example, klavir concerts, which had primerally the violin versions, two lute suites, that had violin and violoncello variants and the fuga from the First violin sonata, which had organ and lute versions. We can find a lot of such examples. The second moment is that Bach himself was an excellent arranger of the other composer's creations. For example he arranged the Alessandro Marcello's concert for klavir which had been written for oboe and violin orchestra in original variant Bach also did the same work with Vivaldy' s concerts.

Even these two noticed facts give more possibilities to the modem musician in solving the problems of transcriptions of the Great Master's works. 

This album includes transcriptions for mostly two guitars, that give an opportunity to express the author's idea fully accurately without breaking spatial and temporal life of the sounds.

Contents:

1. Preamble BWV 875a
2. Aria (Andante) BWV 1033/1
3. Gavotte BWV 816/IV
4. Largo BWV 1056/11
5. Menuet BWV Anh. 116
6. Adagissimo BWV 992/III
7. Fantasia BWV 912
8. Largo BWV 1005/111
9. Prelude BWV 929
10. Polonaise BWV Anh. 119
11. Fugato BWV 962
12. Aria BWV 515b
13. Adagio BWV 1005/1
14. Prelude BWV 935
15. Adagio BWV 974/11
16. Prelude BWV 936
17. Menuet BWV Anh. 115
18. Scherzo BWV 827/VI
19. Siciliana BWV 1001/111
20. Menuet I BWV 814/V
      Menuet II (trio) BWV 814/VI
21. Invention No 9 BWV 780
22. Bourree I BWV 831/VI
      Bourre II (trio) BWV 831/VII