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105. Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsichord Concertos (c.1739)
Recording
Title: Concertos
Performers: The English Consort
Director/Soloist: Trevor Pinnock
Year: 1979-84
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes (First 3 CDs of 5 CD box set)
Review
We might have heard several of these 13 harpsichord concertos before in other ways on this list, in fact all but one concerto here are transcriptions from other works to fit the harpsichord concerto format. So you get bits from the Brandenburg Concertos and Violin Concertos as well as other works.
Interestingly Bach seems to extend the pieces for work with the harpsichord giving them a different dimension, both in length and in how it is played. It ends up being a superb collection of very interesting concerts, sometimes for 1 harpsichord but sometimes for 2, 3 or even and most spectacularly 4 harpsichords!
The performances are flawless in an early collection of period instrument music by Trevor Pinnock making the music exciting and accessible, unfortunately Bach did not compose so much secular music like this as he did sacred music, but he was a talented harpsichord composer indeed and with the addition of an orchestra of which he was a master you get some very good listening indeed.
Final Grade
9/10
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