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JOHNSTONE – “BREAKING INTO BACH” (Albums of original Bach-influenced pieces for the young cellist) – Volume I – for Solo Violoncello

Other Identification: “Breaking Into Bach” is music very similar to Bach composed for young and/or less experienced cellists which sounds good and convincing on the cello but is actually a far bit easier than our maestro Bach himself! However, don’t view these pieces and expect to find exact Bach-like copies, or even original Bach undiscovered gems! That is not the purpose: the goal here is to create modern day ‘Bach ambience’ pieces, not academic Baroque period purities. These 18 pieces are conceived for the ‘modern’ cello. We are looking at NEW pieces featuring Bachian influences, in a way that those cellists who are still concentrating on more basic things with their teachers such as getting well into tune those position moves between the first position and fourth position, not yet absolutely fluid in the extensions forwards and backwards, perhaps starting to think of string crossing techniques for the first time, might still fully enjoy studying and indeed performing these pieces.

Movements or sections: V o l u m e I – All in 1 PDF!
1.. Sarabande in G (2’ 30”)
2.. Bourree in G (1’ 15”)
3.. Prelude in D (3’ 15”)
4.. Gigue in G (1’ 15”)
5.. Arioso in C (with optional 2nd cello) (2’ 45”)
6.. Courante in F (1’ 15”)
7.. Minuet in G (No. 1) (3’ 15”)
8.. Ouverture in G minor (Introduction) ( 3’ 00”)
9.. Toccata in C (3’ 00”)
Timings are very approximate, depending on individual interpretations!
Please see a further 9 pieces in Volume II, of slighter easier level …

Instrumentation: Solo Violoncello

Approximate difficulty: Part I ‘Medium to Advanced’ treats the type of technical needs approaching that of which cellists will encounter (a year or two later!) in the Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach. The pieces are somewhat more developed, including obvious binary and ternary structures, and a few almost looking forward to development sections in the second half of the work, as Bach himself verged on in his bigger solo works. All four positions – with extensions forwards and backwards – are used, along with the octave harmonic. String crossings are not excessively difficult but are considered to be of interest to the intermediate cellist, and all four strings are covered almost in equal importance.

Dedicatee of this presentation (if applicable): This whole project is dedicated to the international Bach-Day movement “Bach in the Subways”

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