Bach J S - Flute Sonatas - Reyne Hugo (recorder)
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'There is something abnormal in almost all Bach's flute sonatas', wrote Frans Bruggen in the booklet note for his recording of these pieces in 1976. It is...
'There is something abnormal in almost all Bach's flute sonatas', wrote Frans Bruggen in the booklet note for his recording of these pieces in 1976. It is true that the flute sonatas do not constitute a homogeneous corpus within the composer's output. We do not possess the "six flute sonatas" as we have, for instance the "six sonatas for violin and harpsichord" or the "Six suites for unaccompanied cello". Each of his pieces for flute corresponds to a different creative period, and Bach did not take the trouble to assemble them in a single manuscript with a view of publication, for example. It was the first editors of these sonatas in the 19th century who divided them into two groups of three.
(Hugo Reyne)