Bach Fantasia for recorder solo

JS Bach very probably never wrote a piece for solo recorder. But all recorder players need music by Bach. The composer himself gave numerous examples of how the same music could be transcribed into different scorings including solo versions without bass. This Fantasia (arranged after the model of Telemann’s Fantasias for flute) is an experiment and uses three movements of the second French Suite c-minor for harpsichord. In these movements the right hand on the harpsichord plays homophonic and harmonically self-explaining figurations that don’t urgently need the bass line for understanding. Feels great to play!
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