Tag: Sonata for Cello & Piano in D Major Op. 102 No. 2

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ALBAN GERHARDT & STEVEN OSBORNE

    PROGRAM NOTES: ALBAN GERHARDT & STEVEN OSBORNE

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    Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV 1008 The instrumental suite, with its predictable allemande-courante-sarabande-gigue sequence of dances and its un-predictable addition of various galanteries (minuets, bourrées, gavottes, etc.), was a staple of the Baroque. Arising from neither of the period’s two great wellsprings of musical emotion – religious piety and…