Suite in G minor played by Walter Gerwig (lute) on gramophone records
This work is better known as the Suite No. 5 in C minor for unaccompanied cello. The autograph manuscript of Bach's arrangement for lute, written on two staves like keyboard music, is in the Royal Library in Brussels. Another manuscript, in lute tablature, to be found in Leipzig, is in the hand of a copyist. Otlher works for the lute attributed to Bach indude suites in C minor, B minor, and E; he aito wrote a part for the lute in the St. John Passion and in the Trauer-Ode. J.L.