J. S. Bach: Three Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord BWV 1027-1029

6 March 2026. 6:00 pm
Budapest Music Center - Library
1094 Budapest, Mátyás utca 8.

Bach's three Gamba Sonatas are one of the densest, most complete cycles of instrumental chamber music. The works were written on the borderland between Weimar and Köthen, at a time when the composer was searching for the purest forms of instrumental thinking. Here the viola da gamba and harpsichord are not in an accompaniment-solo relationship: the musical fabric is shaped by a continuous dialogue between two independent, equal instruments.

The Sonatas are at once contrapunctual in discipline and rhetorical in speech. Their slow movements open up a particularly concentrated world that demands inner attention, while in the fast movements formal clarity and instrumental virtuosity form a close unity.

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