Johann Sebastian Bach
15 pieces · 35 editions · Baroque
Cello
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major
The first of six suites for unaccompanied cello. Composed during Bach's tenure as Kapellmeister in Cothen, the suite consists of six movemen...
Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor
The second of Bach's six suites for unaccompanied cello, set in D minor, lending it a darker and more introspective character than the first...
Cello Suite No. 3 in C major
The third suite returns to a bright, expansive key and is the most extroverted of the set. The Prelude's brilliant scale passages and bariol...
Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat major
The fourth suite marks a shift in technical demands, with the key of E-flat major requiring less resonant string crossings and more careful ...
Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor
The fifth suite requires scordatura tuning (the A string lowered to G), giving the instrument a darker, veiled sonority. The Prelude opens w...
Cello Suite No. 6 in D major
The final and most technically demanding of the six suites, likely written for a five-stringed instrument (viola pomposa or violoncello picc...
Violin
Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor
Contains the monumental Chaconne, a 15-minute set of variations that is often considered the greatest piece ever written for solo violin. Th...
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor
The first of Bach's three sonatas for solo violin, structured as a sonata da chiesa. The monumental four-voice fugue is one of the most tech...
Violin Concerto in A minor
One of only two surviving solo violin concertos by Bach. The hauntingly beautiful Andante middle movement features the solo violin singing o...
Violin Partita No. 3 in E major
The last of Bach's three solo violin partitas, opening with the famous Preludio, a perpetual-motion tour de force of unbroken sixteenth note...
Piano
Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major (WTC I)
The opening piece of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I. The Prelude's flowing broken chords became the foundation for Gounod's Ave Maria. Th...
Goldberg Variations
A monumental set of an aria and thirty variations, originally composed for two-manual harpsichord. Every third variation is a canon at incre...
Italian Concerto in F major
Bach's brilliant imitation of an Italian orchestral concerto for solo keyboard. Written for two-manual harpsichord, the contrasts between fo...