Bach - Flute sonata in A major BWV 1032 - Root and Van Delft | Netherlands Bach Society

Bach’s Flute Sonata in A major, performed by Marten Root and Menno van Delft for All of Bach, has a complicated past. Bach notated the work himself on a series of remaining empty staves at the bottom of pages of a piece of music he had written earlier. Later on, pages were lost from the manuscript, along with many bars from the first movement. So here, too, reconstruction was necessary. The sonata as a whole was probably also a ‘reconstruction’ of an earlier work. Notes made on the manuscript suggest that it was preceded by another version – probably a ‘real’ trio sonata for recorder, violin and basso continuo. Recorded for the project All of Bach on May 22nd 2020 at the art museum Mauritshuis, The Hague. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel and consider donating This recording was made possible by our sponsor Deloitte. For more information on BWV 1032 and this production go to All of