Wolfgang Rübsam - Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio Sonatas BWV 528, 529 and 530; Prelude & Fugue BWV 547 (1993)

Posted By: ArlegZ

Date: Jan. 10, 2025

The six Trio Sonatas for organ seem to belong to the earlier years of Bach's period in Leipzig, dated conjecturally to 1727, apparently devised for the use of the composer's eldest son Wilhelm Friedemann, who became one of the most distinguished organists of his generation in Germany. The sonatas demand clarity of performance and distinct enunciation of the two melodic lines and bass pedal part.
The fourth of the sonatas, in E minor, opens with a motif entrusted to the upper part, immediately imitated by the lower in a brief Adagio introduction. The lower part proposes the theme of the following Vivace, imitated at the octave by the upper part. The following B minor Andante is of increasing elaboration and complexity in figuration and leads to a triple time final movement. The sonata is arranged from the 1723 cantata, Der Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, The Heavens are telling. The fifth sonata, in C major, opens with a concerto-like movement, with a relatively limited bass accompaniment, its closing bars over long-held pedal notes. There is a slow movement in A minor with melodic lines elaborately embellished, and a final C major Allegro that continues to make technical demands on the performer. The G major sonata opens in the manner of a Vivaldi concerto, with the two upper parts in unison, before going on to brief antiphonal imitation on of the other. The upper part is entrusted with the aria melody of the E minor slow movement, the opening later re-appearing in the key of A minor, before leading, through E minor, to a final return to G major in a movement in which once more there is a miraculous interweaving of parts.
Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 547, is strikingly different from much of the composer's work of this kind. Written apparently after 1723, the Prelude opens with a three-voice contrapuntal composition for the manuals in 9/8 metre, with an unusual bass part for the pedals, including a distinctive rhythmic figure when it enters. The same rhythmic figure ends the Prelude. The first 48 bars of the fugue make no use of the pedals, which are used only in the concluding 24 bars, the last five and a half providing a tonic pedal-point. The first pedal entry is in fact in augmentation of the opening of the fugal subject, which itself is treated with the greatest contrapuntal ingenuity.

Performer:
Wolfgang Rübsam, organ

Tracklist:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Trio Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528
01. I. Adagio - Vivace
02. II. Andante
03. III. Un poco allegro
Trio Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529
04. I. Allegro 00:06:26
05. II. Largo
06. III. Allegro
Trio Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530
07. I. Vivace
08. II. Lento
09. III. Allegro
Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547
10. Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547

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