Bach: Italian Concerto & Goldberg Variations (guitar ver.)

( About "office M" )
At "office M," we focus on music production on the computers, primarily centered around classical music, especially piano pieces. We add performance instructions to the original sheet music and perform it on the computer. There are many things that can be done precisely because it's on a computer, and it's a joy to discover new charms in familiar classical pieces.

( About the performance)
This time, we used a guitar sound source that has a tone similar to the harpsichord, which is a plucked string instrument. The performance instruction sheet was created with "Scoremaker (KAWAI)," the DAW used is Logic Pro X, and the sound source is the classical guitar sound from Pianoteq (Modartt).

(About the pieces)
"Italian Concerto" BWV 971
This is a work for the harpsichord by J.S. Bach (1685~1750). It consists of three movements and was published in 1735 as "Concerto in the Italian Style" along with the "French Overture BWV 831" as part of "Clavier-Übung II." A concerto typically features a solo instrument competing with an ensemble, but rather than the Romantic concerto image, it might be easier to think of it as composing a concerto similar to Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" on a single keyboard instrument. This "Italian Concerto" is still widely performed today on solo keyboard instruments such as the piano and harpsichord and is one of Bach's representative keyboard works.
"Goldberg Variations" BWV 988
This is another work for the harpsichord by J.S. Bach (1685~1750). Published in 1741, it is the fourth volume of the "Clavier-Übung," comprising 32 pieces structured as an aria, 30 variations, and a return to the aria. The piece gained its pleasant-sounding title from the anecdote that a young man named Goldberg played it for a count who suffered from insomnia. The special image of this collection has been enhanced by Glenn Gould's two recordings and the way the aria has been featured in films.