Bach Suites, Sonatas, Capriccios, Variations

Apart from the major cycles (partitas, French and English suites), a whole series of separate keyboard suites by Bach have come down to us, including individual sonatas or sonata movements, variations, and fragments of various sorts called Capriccios. None of them reached the degree of popularity of the aforementioned large collections. Most of them go back to Bach's youth and student years, to wit, to the years between 1700 and 1710, and do not yet reach the mastery of the later years. However, this is compensated by the enormous joy one derives in playing these works.

Suite A minor BWV 818 • Suite A minor BWV 818a • Suite E flat major BWV 819 • Suite E flat major BWV 819a • Overture (Suite) F major BWV 820 • Suite F minor BWV 823 • Suite A major BWV 832 • Suite (Prelude and Partita) F major BWV 833 • Second Minuet from French Suite C minor BWV 813a • Minuet from French Suite E flat major BWV 815a • Minuet I from the “Notebook for W. F. Bach” G major BWV 841 • Minuet II from the “Notebook for W. F. Bach” G minor BWV 842 • Minuet III from the “Notebook for W. F. Bach” G major BWV 843 • Sonata D major BWV 963 • Sonata a minor BWV 967 • Sonata after Reinken A minor BWV 965 • Sonata after Reinken C major BWV 966 • Sonata D minor BWV 964 after the Violin Sonata A minor d minor BWV 964 • Adagio G major BWV 968 after the Violin Sonata C major (Sonata movement) G major BWV 968 • Capriccio sopra la Iontananza B flat major BWV 992 • Capriccio E major BWV 993 • Aria Variata a minor BWV 989.