Bach, J.S.: Concertos for Harpsichords, Recorders and Violins
7/12/1996, 12 Tracks, 1:06:54
Featuring
Helmut Müller-Brühl
Felix Reimann
Ingeborg Scheerer
Andreas Spering
Eva Morsbach
Nadja Schubert
Robert Hill
Gerald Hambitzer
Christoph Anselm Noll
Elisabeth Kufferath
Christine Pichlmeier
Winfried Rademacher
Kölner Kammerorchester
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Compositional Technique
The Triple Concerto, BWV 1044, is unique among Bach's concertos as it was created by extensively reworking earlier solo harpsichord and organ pieces, rather than transcriptions of violin or wind concertos.
Performer Biography
Winfried Rademacher, a violin professor, was deeply influenced by the Amadeus Quartet and Nathan Milstein, and plays a Nicolò Gagliano violin from 1733.
Composition History
The Concerto in D minor, BWV 1063, for three harpsichords, may have been written by Bach for himself and his two eldest sons, Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, to develop their performance talents.
Composer Biography
Bach's career is typically divided into three main periods: Weimar (1708-1717), Köthen (1717-1723), and Leipzig (1723-1750).
Compositional Technique
Bach was deeply influenced by the works of Antonio Vivaldi, whose concertos he transcribed for organ and harpsichord, and whose fast-slow-fast structure he adopted.
Composition History
Many of Bach's concertos are arrangements of earlier works, often originally for different solo instruments, which he adapted for the harpsichord.
