The booklet notes by Ton Koopman, who produced this release, issued it on his Antoine Marchand (that's French for "Ton Koopman") imprint, and featured on keyboard his wife, Tini Mathot, speak of "an effort to recover some of the lost chamber music of the Leipzig cantor," Johann Sebastian Bach. It's indeed likely that Bach wrote a lot of chamber music that has since been lost, but this arrangement of Bach's organ trio sonatas is really something other than a pure attempt at transcription. There are quite a few arrangements ...
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The booklet notes by Ton Koopman, who produced this release, issued it on his Antoine Marchand (that's French for "Ton Koopman") imprint, and featured on keyboard his wife, Tini Mathot, speak of "an effort to recover some of the lost chamber music of the Leipzig cantor," Johann Sebastian Bach. It's indeed likely that Bach wrote a lot of chamber music that has since been lost, but this arrangement of Bach's organ trio sonatas is really something other than a pure attempt at transcription. There are quite a few arrangements of these trio sonatas for chamber ensemble; naturally enough, for Bach was himself imitating a chamber genre on the keyboard in this set of works. The majority of such arrangements, however, use the typical trio sonata grouping of two melody instruments (often two violins, or violin and flute). This one, along with various others, uses one melody instrument plus keyboard, with the right hand of the keyboard part serving as a partner to the melody instrument rather than to its own left...
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