Bach - Suite 1

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J.S. Bach
Suites for Solo Cello
Suites 1
-
3
Transcribed
for
B
Trumpet
f
By
Jay Lichtmann
………………..
Notes on this Edition
“We stopped at an old music shop near the harbor. I began browsing through a bundle of
musical scores. Suddenly I came upon a sheaf of pages, crumbled and discolored with
age. They were unaccompanied suites by J. S. Bach– for the cello only. I looked at them
with wonder:
Six Suites for Violoncello Solo
. What magic and mystery, I thought, were
hidden in those words. I had never heard of the existence of the suites; nobody– not
even my teachers – had ever mentioned them to me. I hurried home, clutching the suites
as if they were crown jewels, and once in my room I pored over them. I read and reread
them. I was thirteen at the time, but for the following eighty years the wonder of my
discovery has continued to haunt me. Thosesuites opened up a whole new world…I
studied and worked at them every day for the next twelve years. Yes, twelve years would
elapse and I would be twenty-five before I had the courage to play one of the suites at a
public concert. Up until then, no violinist or cellist had ever played one of the Bach suites
in its entirety (in concert). They had been considered academic works, mechanical,
without warmth. Imagine that! They are the very essence of Bach, and Bach is the
essence of music.”
•
Pablo Casals
“She liked to practice three hours a day: some Bach– which she found as necessary to her
well being as other people find jogging or swimming or yoga– and whatever new music
she had decided to learn.”
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Helen Epstein about violinist - Cecylia Arzewski
from
Music Talks
“The Bach suites are addressed directly to the performer as technical and intellectual
exercises of the greatest genius. The audience really ‘overhears’ the performer. It is hard
to imagine Bach composing them for a public occasion. The burden of communicating
their beauty falls heavily on the artist with sufficient courage to take them on.”
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Pianist - Richard Goode
What is it about the unaccompanied music of Bach that is so absorbing and satisfying? I
will always remember an insightful comment about Bach by my teacher Mario Guarneri.
At one point during my lesson, while I was playing a piece from the Gisondi/Bach book,
he remarked:
“You know, one never gets tired of practicing Bach. You can study it your
whole life and it is always fresh, a challenge every time you pick it up.”
This is so true! I
get tired and annoyed practicing and performing so many things, but it’s always fun to
work on Bach. My favorite and most tattered books are Bach transcriptions for the
trumpet. I really love Bach but believe me, I’m just a regular guy, not a Bach fanatic or
freak like some:
“Like cold showers and hot baths, Bach’s music is an almost satisfactory substitute for sex.
Its purity grips minds slightly too rarified to be properly religious. It must be listened to,
sung and played and discussed with an expression of ineluctable piety. Compared with
the music of Bach; Beethoven’s and Mozart’s efforts are the soiled product of the dirty
human hand. It is possible to like Bach and nothing else – it is even likely. Yet in spite of
the clinical and demanding nature of his music, it is tremendously popular. If you happen
to meet a real Bach addict it would be better to faint, or pretend that you have to get
home because of the babysitter. Any suggestion that you like other composers just as
much, or even more, but can take Bach as good clean fun and enjoy listening to a
recording of his cello suites while you lie in the bath, can earn you a very nasty reputation.
You must take Bach seriously or not at all!
•
Peter Gammond
from
Bluff Your Way in Music
It has been a great pleasure working on these Suites for Solo Cello over the past four
years. After much consideration I have come to the conclusion that the first three suites
are the most suitable for performance (as complete suites) on the trumpet. In this
edition I have tried to edit these suites so that they are publicly performable. To that end
I have made some changes that purists might object to:
1) Because of the trumpet’s limited range and because of the extreme change in tone
quality in each of its registers, I have had to transpose these suites from their original
keys. I have also eliminated many of the awkward octave-
plus
interval jumps so that
these pieces will stay in the optimum tessiturra for the instrument. In several places I
have changed the pitch of a note to an auxiliary note in the chord, to facilitate the
execution of a passage.
2) I have eliminated most of the double stops that help outline the harmonic structure of
these pieces. While these double stops are meaningful to the execution of these
suites (some would argue that they are essential) I have felt that, on a wind
instrument, the substitution of grace notes for double stops is unsatisfactory. Grace
notes interrupt the fluidity of the solo line and the awkward interval jumps that one
must execute to imply these harmonies sound disturbing to my ear.
3) I have eliminated notes here and there and have made a large cut in the Prelude of
the third suite. In transcribing string and keyboard music for brass instruments,
finding adequate places to breathe without distorting the musical line is always an
issue. I have removed selected notes so that one may take a satisfactory breath
without having to resort to the – ritard, inhale, a tempo – routine for every respiration.
In doing so, I have tried to not change the implied harmonies or distort the melodic
line. The cut in the Prelude of the third suite is to eliminate a long section of
arpeggiated string crossings that frankly, sound tedious (even ridiculous) on the
trumpet.
I have added tempo indications, breaths and slur markings but little else. The Italian
tempo notations are attempts to give the performer an idea of the character of the
individual movements. The breath & slur markings are the ones I have come to use
(though they are always in flux) and will not work well for every player, but do give a clue
as to how one might phrase these pieces. I have not included breath marks where they
are all too obvious (i.e. immediately before repeats). I have also avoided including
dynamics, varied articulation markings or extraneous score markings (besides the
occasional
cédez
,
ritard
or
piu mosso
) because these musical determinations are quite
individual, and I did not want to clutter this edition with too many markings.
4) I have included all repeats that occur in the original manuscript, though for obvious
endurance reasons, the performer may opt to eliminate some or all of these
repetitions in performance.
Finally, it is my hope that you will derive as much pleasure studying and playing these
remarkable compositions as I have.
Jay Lichtmann
Avon, CT
Summer ‘99
First Suite
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