Bach: Suites, Sonatas, Capriccios, Variations

Description

Apart from the Major cycles (partitas, French and English suites), a whole series of separate keyboard suites by Bach have come down to us, including individual sonatas or sonata movements, variations, and fragments of various sorts called Capriccios. None of them reached the degree of popularity of the aforementioned large collections. Most of them go back to Bach's youth and student years, to wit, to the years between 1700 and 1710, and do not yet reach the mastery of the later years. However, this is compensated by the enormous joy one derives in playing these works.

Pieces

• Suite in A Minor, BWV 818
• Suite in A Minor, BWV 818a
• Suite in E-flat Major, BWV 819
• Suite in E-flat Major, BWV 819a
• Overture (Suite) in F Major, BWV 820
• Suite in F Minor, BWV 823
• Suite in A Major, BWV 832
• Suite (Prelude and Partita) in F Major, BWV 833
• Second Minuet from French Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813
• Minuet from French Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 815
• Minuet, BWV 841
• Minuet, BWV 842
• Minuet in G Major, BWV 843
• Sonata in D Major, BWV 963
• Sonata in A Minor, BWV 967
• Sonata in A Minor (after Reinken), BWV 965
• Sonata in C Major (after Reinken), BWV 966
• Sonata (after the Violin Sonata A Minor) in D Minor, BWV 964
• Adagio after the Violin Sonata C Major (Sonata movement) in G Major, BWV 968
• Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV 992
• Capriccio in E Major, BWV 993
• Aria Variata in A Minor, BWV 989