J.S. Bach - Three-Part Invention | No. 1 in C major BWV 787

J.S. Bach - Three-Part Invention (Sinfonias) | No. 1 in C major BWV 787 (string trio arrangement) Violin: Alex Fortes Viola: Kaya Katarzyna Bryla - Weiss Cello: Thapelo Masita "Late in life, the great poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reflected about his experience of J.S. Bach’s music, that it was as if “eternal harmony were conversing with itself, as it may have done in the bosom of God before the Creation of the World. So likewise did it move in my inmost soul, and it seemed as I neither possessed nor needed ears, nor any other sense – least of all, the eyes”. This quality of the intrinsically musical–of moving, intertwining voices in dialogue with one another– is exquisitely embodied in the two and three-part inventions (Inventions and Sinfonias) that J.S. Bach devised as a cornerstone of keyboard playing and springboard to the two books of his Well-Tempered Clavier. All of these marvelous inventions embody such ingenious musical conversations, while surveying a wide range of musical character. It is no wonder that Bach’s Inventionen and Sinfonien have exerted such fascination on so many subsequent composers, and continue to inspire and challenge musicians today, nearly three centuries after they were conceived by Bach." William Kinderman Video courtesy of Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York, NY