Kreutzer Number 4
Sonata No. 1 in G-minor: Presto
I love the way this movement flows from the Siciliano. When I practice the end of the Siciliano, I usually keep going to the first few measures of the Presto. The last note of the Siciliano is a D-B-flat doublestop, an inversion of the movement's tonic chord, B-flat major. Those two notes, D and B-flat also happen to belong to a G-minor chord, which is the tonic chord of the Presto. I think that's why it is satisfying to segue into the Presto. When I continue from one movement to the next, I like to linger a bit on the open G at the bottom of the arpeggio, more than either of the artists I referenced here did. I think the beginning of the Presto is a good end to the Siciliano.
The Adagio doesn't particularly lead to the Fuga, in my opinion, even though the two movements are in the same key, and the Fuga doesn't particularly lead to the Siciliano. For some reason, there's a special connection between the Siciliano and the Presto. Music's mysteries again.
For another version of the Presto, watch Hilary Hahn play it as an encore in this YouTube video. She played Bach as an encore to Mozart's 4th Violin Concerto, the concerto featured in my favorite book, the Mozart Season.
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