Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings Academy of Ancient Music Christophe Rousset, Harpsichord Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Christopher Hogwood, Conductor Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings ...
It’s not all about the Brandenburg Concertos – but it’s a good place to start! Discover the magic behind Bach’s fantastic Baroque orchestral music. Of Bach’s mammoth output of more than 1100 ...
JS Bach wrote, or rewrote, seven solo harpsichord concertos. Most of them began life as showpieces for other instruments – violin, oboe d’amore – and occasionally their potted history makes for an ...
If the Kilkenny Arts Festival has whetted rather than sated your appetite for Bach, here’s Andreas Staier swinging into view with new versions of seven harpsichord concertos on two mid-price CDs. The ...
Jane Jones tells how Bach found a new harpsichord, a new wife and looked for a new job. At the beginning of the 18th century, all the decent music jobs were linked with either church or state, and ...
The stormy writing of JS Bach's son has been dismissed as "the all-too-easy surprises of a style where anything can happen", but this pair of concerto recordings show him as a mature, thoughtful and ...
From obscurity to outer space, the second ‘Brandenburg Concerto’ has come a long way.
No one needs to be told why “The Messiah” or “The Nutcracker” have become Christmas perennials. There are, of course, further Christmas-themed works of glory galore. It’s time we dig out Bach’s joyous ...
Like many another composer, Bach was an avid recycler. Two of the harpsichord concertos here – the ones in F, BWV1057, and G minor, BWV1058 – are better known in their original guises, as the Fourth ...
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