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Keyboard Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 4
ASMF / Murray Perahia pf (Sony) Rivals are plentiful, but credible contenders at this level of interpretation are rare. Andrei Gavrilov ‘out-Goulds’ Gould with his dry staccatissimo, and Gould himself was a good deal livelier in concert than on his rather sober commercial recording under Leonard Bernstein. Sviatoslav Richter plays with incredible control while keeping every note alive, but some might find his manner too austere. And while Edwin Fischer is consistently spontaneous, he is rathe...
Keyboard Concertos
Angela Hewitt pf Australian Chamber Orchestra / Richard Tognetti (Hyperion) These are not entirely modern-instrument performances. Angela Hewitt includes, as she says, ‘a harpsichord in its traditional role as continuo’. Combining old and new isn’t unusual because in the early years of period performing practices, the likes of Thurston Dart, Raymond Leppard and George Malcolm married a harpsichord to modern strings and wind. What’s unusual here is the melding of two different types of keyboar...
Violin Concertos
Isabelle Faust, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Harmonia Mundi) That Isabelle Faust and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin have let this Bach violin concertos album run to nearly 2 hours of music suggests a relish of their task that is mirrored triumphantly in the resultant music-making. Their choice of repertoire, too, feels driven by a desire to celebrate Bach’s life with the violin rather than document it. If they had wanted to be pedantically completist about it, we would have the Fifth B...
Lute works
Sean Shibe gtr (Delphian) The flow of the E minor Suite’s Prelude is subtly arrested by expressively arpeggiated chords which throw into sharp relief a cut-glass Fugue that attunes the listener to rippling yet clearly defined semiquavers and tastefully applied ornamentation in the following dance movements. I like, too, the pointing up of the similarities between the BWV997 Partita’s Fugue and the previous Suite’s Gigue, while the intelligent use of sweetness of tone and rubato, as in the exq...
Complete Sonatas for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord
Rachel Podger vn Jonathan Manson va da gamba Trevor Pinnock hpd (Channel Classics) Another recording of Bach’s violin sonatas, and at last one that really hits the spot. Rachel Podger has already attracted much praise for her recordings of the solo violin music, but is heard here to even better advantage in the Six Sonatas for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord, BWV1014-19, for which she is joined by Trevor Pinnock (of whose English Concert she is now the leader). The two make a fine match. Bot...
Cello Suites
Pablo Casals vc (Warner Classics) From the profound contemplative quality of the G major Sarabande or the C minor Allemande to the zest of the C major Bourree, the breadth and grandeur of the D minor Suite's Prelude and the gravity of its Sarabande, the lightness of the E flat Allemande and Bourrees or the C minor Gavotte, the raptness of the C minor Sarabande, and the lucidity of thought behind the elaborate D major Allemande, these performances remain the classic yardstick by which all late...
Sacred Cantatas
Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki (BIS) While John Eliot Gardiner performed his near-complete Bach sacred cantata ‘pilgrimage’ in the course of the great millennial year in 50 contrasting locations, Masaaki Suzuki’s 18-year journey has been a gradually unfolding musical voyage (a chronological rather than seasonal progression) and in the singular, luminous hallmark acoustic of the Shoin Women’s University Chapel in Kobe. Comparisons of two exceptional Bach projects are largely rendered od...
Cantatas Nos 82 and 199
Emma Kirkby sop Katharina Arfken ob Freiburg Baroque Orchestra / Gottfried von der Goltz vn (Carus) One of the world’s brightest Baroque ensembles performing with one of the world’s most admired Baroque sopranos sounds an enticing proposition‚ and so it should. What is more‚ the solo cantatas on offer here are two of Bach’s most moving: Ich habe genug‚ that serene contemplation of the afterlife; and Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut‚ a relatively early work with a text which moves from the wallowin...
Mass in B minor
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (SDG) Gardiner’s admiration for this work is palpable in every bar, perhaps over-curated for some; and if so the softer-hues of Cohen may be preferred. But in the grip of its conceits and its virtuoso executancy, captured in the strikingly immediate recorded sound of LSO St Luke’s, this High Mass joins a distinguished discography at high table... Jonathan Freeman-Attwood Read the full review
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- Minuet In G Major. First, we have Bach’s Minuet in G major. This is one of the most recognizable pieces in all of classical piano, and even if you aren’t sure exactly what this piece sounds like, there’s a good chance you have heard it before.
- Toccata And Fugue In D Minor. Okay, so Bach’s Toccata And Fugue In D Minor is actually a piece for the organ, but it is arguably his most recognizable composition.
- The Goldberg Variations: BMV 998. In general, as you move forward in music history, the pieces get more challenging; however, there are plenty of pieces that Bach wrote that are plenty challenging enough!
- The Italian Concerto In F. Bach wrote plenty of beautiful concertos during his time, and one of the most popular is the Italian Concerto. It has been featured on TV shows and movies before, so don’t be surprised if you have heard it before.
BWV 967 — Sonata in A minor. BWV 968 — Adagio in G major (arranged from 1st movement of BWV 1005 ) BWV 969 — Andante in G minor (doubtful) BWV 970 — Presto in D minor (spurious, composed by W.F. Bach) Italian Concerto, BWV 971. Keyboard arrangements of concerti by other composers, BWV 972–987.
- Concerto No.15 in G
- BWV 986 ; BC L 203
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Keyboard Concerto in G major
Concertos (592–597) BWV 592 — Organ Concerto in G major (arrangement of a lost violin concerto by Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar) BWV 592a — Harpsichord Concerto in G major (arranged from BWV 592) BWV 593 — Organ Concerto in A minor (arrangement of the Concerto for 2 Violins in A minor, RV 522, by Antonio Vivaldi ) BWV 594 — Organ ...
The keyboard concertos, BWV 1052–1065, are concertos for harpsichord (or organ ), strings and continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach. There are seven complete concertos for a single harpsichord (BWV 1052–1058), three concertos for two harpsichords (BWV 1060–1062), two concertos for three harpsichords (BWV 1063 and 1064), and one concerto for ...
