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Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH

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RECORDER CONCERTO

Flauto dolce principale


due Violini, Viola e Basso

Arrangement of
Flute Concerto in A Major (Wq.168, H.438)
Cello Concerto in A Major (Wq.172, H.439)

Flauto dolce Solo

Ed. Joseba Berrocal Bilbao 2020


Introduction
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, unlike his father Johann Sebastian and his
godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, did not compose concerted works with the
recorder as protagonist. Actually, few authors wrote recorder concertos, even
in the first half of the 18th-century.
In the decades during which CPE Bach was active as composer, Europe saw
how the traverso became the hegemonic representative of the flute family.
Nevertheless, and although decreasing, a certain number of professionals and
amateurs continued to play the recorder. Just as an example, the popular
treatise Reglas y Advertencias Generales by Minguet y Yrol, dated 1754 and
reprinted in 1774, includes the fingering chart for it.
This edition offers a new Recorder Concerto by CPE Bach that aims to increase
the repertoire from a period not so well represented in the history of the
instrument.
The story of this concerto is complex and interesting. Plausibly written in 1753
as a Cello Concerto (Wq 172), it was soon arranged twice: for flute (Wq 168)
and for harpsichord (Wq 29). As he used to do, CPE revised the work decades
later. The genesis of the three versions are described in the introductions of
the respective editions: cello (Robert Nosow), flute (Barthold Kuijken) and
harpsichord (Jane R. Stevens). All of them can be downloaded at [Link] .
The present edition for recorder uses the traverso version as its main source.
When musical interest has suggested so, some octave transpositions have been
made, and also several substitutions taken from the cello version.

Performance
When Johann Sebastian Bach made contact with the new woodwinds of
French origin, he had to make a decision to solve the problem of the different
pitch between the winds, the strings and the organ. His solution, the first
times, was to write these new woodwinds as transposing instruments. This was
the case of the recorders in the Cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit BWV
106, or the oboe in the Cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131.
Furthermore, in this edition the recorder plays in B flat Major -using an
instrument in 415 Hz- while the strings play in A Major –in a pitch of 440 Hz-
using the original parts of the Traverso Concerto Wq. 168. These string parts
are also freely available on [Link] .
The performance is also possible with a recorder in 392 and strings in 415.
This way, the original writing for the strings by the composer is preserved. The
tessitura of the traverso part has allowed a transposition of a minor second,
instead of the usual minor third that separates traverso and recorder music.

Joseba Berrocal Bilbao, 2020


Concerto per il Flauto dolce
  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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      
Allegro
       
 

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 
   
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                   
3 3

   
              
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         
                           
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 
   
                                 
   


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 
3 3 3

    
3

     
               
  
48 3

            
3 3 3 3 3

     3  
3 3 3


3 3

 
3

    
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 
     
3

                            
3 3

  

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 
                   
3 3

   
      
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           

              
     
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    
                    
80

               

To be played on a 415 Hz Treble Recorder; using the ripieno parts in 440 Hz from the Flute Concerto in A Major (Wq.168, H.438)
Ed. Joseba BERROCAL 2020 viulunzel@[Link] Non-commercial copying welcome
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2

            

84

                               
  
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             
                  
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      
     
                            
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          
       
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     
 
                       

95

           
        
         
   
 
   

97


3 3 3 3


             
             
102


3 3

                      
             
  
 
105

3 3 3 3 3

    
           

109

         
   
                  
  
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    
     
3

          
  
        
123


             
     
                  
128


                     
 
133
        

                                 
  

139


3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

       
                   
142



3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

      
         
      
     
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 
3 3 3 3 3 3
3 3 3 3

  
                                    
148


 
3 3 3

    
3 3

  
3

 
3 3

                

153


3 3 3 3 3 3 3

    
3

            
     
     
156

3 3 3 3 3 3


3 3

             
3 3


            
  
  
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         
3 3 3

            
    

 
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4

 
Largo con sordini. Mesto

    
 
                             
  
     
   
  
                         

29
 
 
           
                     
38
    
 
 
  
                         
  
  
44

 
3



56
        
            
   
      
  
 
                                        
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  

                           
        
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   
   
                        

    

       
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  3


 
                           
84

    
     
                         
     
    
91

 
   
     
       
           

      
97
  
          

5

 
Allegro assai

       
 
3
3

                                
59

 
   
3


3

              
         
67

                      
             
73


             
    
 
          
   
79

  3

                 

                  
86

   

            
                  
94


 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

      
3

           
          
99


3 3 3 3 3
3 3

    
   
         
133

  
         
143

 
3 3 3

            
3 3 3

       

151


3 3 3 3 3
3
               
6

          

158


3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

                   
         
163


3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

                      
     

168

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

                                     
173


3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

 
3

 
     
        
       

178


3 3 3 3

   
3 3 3 3

               
          
184


3 3 3

                          
    
192


3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3


                            

197




3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

 

       
   

        
203

3 3 3

         
3

           
 
  
221

                            
230

   

  
7

 



      
      

   
238

                 
        
246

                             
   

259

3 3 3 3

                     
    
  
267

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

             
 
273
              

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

                   
   
   
  
278


3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

                      
      
283


3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

                      
     
  
288


3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

                  
           
293



3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3


298
                        
  

3 3 3 3

 
3

  
3

   
3

                 
3


303

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