Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Combattimento
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Etcetera
Catalogue: KTC1806
Release: 2024
Size: 841 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1063r
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Alla Siciliana
03. III. Allegro
Concerto for Violin in G Minor, BWV 1056r
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Largo
06. III. Presto
Concerto for Three Violins in D Major, BWV 1064r
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Adagio
09. III. Allegro
Partita for Violin and Lute in G Minor, BWV 997r
10. I. Preludio
11. II. Fuga
12. III. Sarabande
13. IV. Gigue
14. V. Double
Concerto for Harpsichord in D Minor, BWV 1059r
15. I. Allegro
16. II. Adagio
17. III. Presto
We know from an anecdote recorded in the early 19th century that Johann Sebastian Bach’s wrote his two concerti for three harpsichords and strings (BWV 1063-64) with the express purpose of playing them with his two eldest sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. In all likelihood these pieces originated in the early 1730s, when both brilliant youngsters were still at home, possibly with an eye to introducing his sons via these concerti to the Leipzig Collegium Musicum, of which father Bach had assumed leadership in 1729.
This pair of triple concertos undoubtedly form arrangements of lost originals with solo melody instruments. But in contrast with the concertos for a single harpsichord (as well as two of the concerti for two harpsichords), no autograph sources are known for them. They only survive in copies, the earliest of which are by Bach’s pupil Johann Friedrich Agricola, who made them made around 1740 (Concerto in C major BWV 1064) and after 1750 (Concerto in D minor BWV 1063) respectively.
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