Sonatas (M42) (v.1) (BWV1034-35) (e,E) (with CD)

JS Bach Flute Sonatas (Volume 1) by JS Bach
Edited by Paul Edmund-Davies for Flute and Piano
Includes score and parts, CD

Contents:

Sonata in e minor (BWV1034)
Sonata in E Major (BWV1035)

The sonatas in this performing edition, with a keyboard realization by John Alley, represent some of the finest music ever written for flute and have long claimed their place in the core repertoire of the instrument. This book comes with a FREE CD recording which includes complete performance and backing tracks.

Increasingly, teaching both at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then the Royal College of Music, I found that students were intimidated by the Baroque movement and often were terrified of approaching music by Bach or Telemann, for fear of “getting it wrong”.  This of course, was absurd, but it made me realize that something had to be done to encourage my students to review these feelings.  My editions of Bach, Handel and Telemann, with dynamics and slurs, came about simply to encourage modern flute players to investigate further and to appreciate that it was possible to perform these great works on modern, metal flutes, if a degree of sympathy and understanding of the style of the period in question, was adopted.  — Paul Edmund-Davies