"... recent research has shown that... including all the authenticated flute sonatas, almost certainly reached their final state in Leipzig, where bach spent the last 27 years of his life."
"The composer's growing family and the many visitors he received in his apartments at the school must also have provided incentives for composing chamber music."
"For his accompanies sonatas Bach usually preferred to write a fully composed part ofor the keyboard (as in the flute sonatas BWV 1020-1032 and in all three gamba sonatas), rather than leaving it to the player to supply the harmonies from a figured bass (as in the other sonatas recorded here). The result is a kind of trio for two players, encouraging that penchant for contrapuntal elaboration so strongly associated with the Bach style."
"... About the sonata in B minor, BWV 1030... this is the masterpiece among Bach's solo flute music. It begins with an unusually long and very beautiful Andante which seems at times to recall some of Bach's Passion music (one thinks, for example, of the aria 'Erbarme dich,' in the same key, from the St Matthew Passion)."
"The sonata in C, BWV 1033... it seems unable to decide whether it is a sonata or a suite, and for all its charm and style it rarely rises above a pedestrian level of inspiration of craftsmanship."
"His three sonatas for viola da gamba (or bass viol), on the other hand, were for an instrument which was already being superseded by the newer violincello."
"The sonata in G minor, BWV 1029... resembles in both form and style the Vivaldi type of concerto that Bac adopted and dveloped in his own concertos... One write has even dubbed the work a 'Seventh Brandenburg Concerto,' and those who know the Brandenburgs, will have no difficulty in spotting resemblances in the gamba sonata."
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