Gerard de Wit - Transcriptions 5 sonatas for obbligato harpsichord or organ and recorder (2020)

Bach often reuses (parts of) his compositions, both in terms of vocal (text parody) and instrumental music. Sometimes Bach converted his music for another instrument into a different musical key. A specific example can be found in the aria 'Leget euch dem Heiland unter' from the cantata 'Himmelskönig sei willkommen' BWV 182, composed in 1714. Ten years later, Bach made changes to the recorder part in order to improve the playability in a new key. ease. This is a valuable and inspiring example for any attempt to rediscover lost chamber music through transcriptions. This CD uses material from the repertoire for various instruments, such as Bach's trio sonatas for organ (BWV 525-530), violin sonatas (BWV 1014-1019), gamba sonatas (BWV 1027-1029) and finally, and not surprisingly, his flute sonatas. The autograph of the first movement of the flute sonata BWV 1032 has only been handed to us in fragments; much of the first part is missing. Gerard de Wit made a reconstruction for this based on the remaining material. Gerard de Wit: “With this CD my wife and I hope to serve two purposes: firstly to expand the chamber music repertoire for recorder with a reconstruction BWV 1032 and transcriptions for BWV 525, 1016, 1027; secondly, to have answered the question of how Bach's chamber music for recorder sounded.