Category: Baroque
Music of the Baroque style.
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Tunes Recomposed by Gabriel Martins
Cellist Gabriel Martins have been recomposing tunes from the past written for other instruments into new arrangements suitable for self-accompanied cello. His inspirations include Romantic solo piano, Irish harp music, Baroque work for viola da gamba, and more. Free sheet music is freely-downloadable from his website gabrielmartinscello.com. [YT: I_2y_nYUXA4]
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Bach Cello Suite 7: Jessica Korotkin
Jessica Korotkin joked that J.S. Bach didn’t write Bach Cello Suites 7 through 12. She did. Her 6 unaccompanied cello suites were inspired by Bach, and composed through a rigorous methodology, documented in her thesis: Building on Bach: 6 New Suites for Solo Cello, and summarized in an Early Music America article. Our project “Bach Wrote What?!” applauds her multi-year effort dedicated to this work. [YT: BDLakK51nro]
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11 Capricci by Joseph dall’Abaco
Joseph Dall’Abaco was born 25 years after J.S. Bach. He was a celebrated cellist and wrote many cello music. But few of his solo compositions survived. Fortunately we do have a 19th-century copy of his 11 Capricci for solo cello, even if the copy contained obvious errors, and recorded only half of the last piece. These 11 unaccompanied cello pieces evoke in one, the same feelings from listening to Bach’s cello suites. [YT: jK32VBOkIvs]
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The Chaconne In Cello’s Range
Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No. 2 BWV 1004 for Solo Violin is so great, it is simply known as “The Chaconne”. Some brave cellist rearrange this great music to be played in a cello’s natural range, transposed down a fifth to G minor. This is the same spirit that our project “Bach Wrote What?!” embraces. Instead of boxing Bach’s music in, we should expand it as we see fit, to best render it for this moment. [YT: T9EZNteSbhg]