In this volume Sonata No. 4, in D major, has a lively opening movement in a kind of ‘two-part invention’ texture; at one point it takes the violin up to seventh position. Then comes a march-like air, followed by a slow sarabande, a gigue-like movement, and a massive final chaconne in cut time (chaconne à deux temps) employing a bass pattern identical with one used in Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus, RV 594, Couperin’s trio sonata L’Espagnole and the first strain of the Aria in Bach’s Goldberg Variation...