Galerija Božidar Jakac

Transcriptions, re-workings, transpositions and arrangements were part of baroque musical life and Bach was no stranger to these practices. A contemporary commented that Bach would play the solo violin Sonatas and Partitas on the harpsichord adding as much in the way of harmony or basses that he found necessary. We have examples of Bach’s arrangements of other peoples’ compositions as well as his own. When Bach wrote for the lute he did not write new works especially for the instrument but reworked compositions of his that already existed in other forms. Instead of labouring over perpetuating the idea that the so-called lute pieces of Bach are proper lute pieces Edin Karamazov prefers to take the works for unaccompanied violin or cello and make them into new works for lute, keeping (as much as possible) to the original text, musical intention, phrasing and articulation, yet transforming them in a way particular to the lute so that they are satisfying to play and to hear.

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