Bach - Sonata for violin and harpsichord no. 3 in E major BWV 1016 | Netherlands Bach Society

If any Adagio deserves the label ‘melodious’, then it is the third movement of the Sonata for violin and harpsichord in E major, performed by Shunske Sato and Menno van Delft for All of Bach. Bach’s son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, referred to Bach’s six sonatas as “Clavier trios”, as the violin and the right hand of the harpsichord are equal partners, while the left hand plays a separate bass part – so they are real trio sonatas. Recorded for the project All of Bach on October 17th 2015 at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel and consider donating For the interview with violinist Shunske Sato on BWV 1016 go to For more information on BWV 1016 and this production go to All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society / Nederlandse Bachvereniging, offering high-quality film recordings of