BACH SONATAS FOR FLUTE
AND PIANOFORTE
Played by JOSEPH SLATER (Flute) and GORDON BRYAN
(Pianoforte)
Fourth Sonata, in C
THE last three sonatas are more simply constructed than the first three. Those were of the Concerto type. These resemble more the Suite, with its four or more Movements, and its broad contrasts of quick and slow pieces, of quite simple build (mostly in two portions, both using much the same material).
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There is less richness of treatment, less flowering of the Flute part, in these last Sonatas, though they have plenty of character, and the melodic lines are attractively bold and clear.
The C major Sonata begins with a Movement that, after a sedate Introduction, goes on to a very brief, capering Presto, and ends with a few slow bars, that lead into the running Second Movement, in the stylo of the agile Courante, one of the dance Movements that we know in the Suites.
Fourteen bars of very expressive slow music lead to a couple of Minuets, after the second of which, the first is repeated.