Bach: Concertos for Harpsichord & Strings, Vol. 1

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Soloist Suzuki, with the lively and responsive partnership of the Bach Collegium Japan provide invigorating performances. Their playing of the faster outer movements pulsates with energy. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 3rd Jul 2020
Catalogue No: BIS2401
Label: BIS
Length: 66 minutes

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Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV1052

Work length21:40

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Masato Suzuki
Bach Collegium Japan

I. Allegro

Track length7:23

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II. Adagio

Track length6:20

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III. Allegro

Track length7:57

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Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV1056

Work length9:25

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Masato Suzuki
Bach Collegium Japan

I. Allegro

Track length3:11

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II. Largo

Track length2:33

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III. Presto

Track length3:41

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Bach, J S: Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, BWV1059

Work length15:54

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Masato Suzuki
Bach Collegium Japan

I. Allegro

Track length6:17

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II. Siciliano

Track length6:05

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III. Presto

Track length3:32

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Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV1053

Work length19:29

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Masato Suzuki
Bach Collegium Japan

I. Allegro

Track length8:04

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II. Siciliano

Track length4:31

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$1.75

III. Allegro

Track length6:54

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The extant concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach for one harpsichord and strings were all composed before 1738, which makes them some of the first, if not the first keyboard concertos – a genre destined to become one of the most popular within classical music. In all likelihood Bach wrote them for his own use (or that of his talented sons) – probably to be performed with Leipzig’s Collegium Musicum of which he had taken over as director in 1729. The fresh and exuberant character one finds in the concertos seems to reflect how much Bach enjoyed the opportunity to engage with his fellow musicians. But much of the music itself was in fact not new – despite how idiomatic they may sound, many of Bach’s harpsichord concertos are almost certainly transcriptions of earlier works written for other instruments. Some of these original works are no longer extant, but it is nevertheless possible to trace the ancestry of BWV 1052 and the outer movements of BWV 1056 to lost violin concertos, while BWV 1053 is a reworking of three cantata movements which in turn probably hailed from a lost organ concerto. A similar case is BWV 1059, which is known to us in a nine-bar fragment in Bach’s original score. But an earlier version of the piece – a concerto for organ – has survived in the form of three movements of Cantata No. 35, Geist und Seele wird verwirret, and these have served as basis for Masato Suzuki's reconstruction of the work included on the present album. It is also Masato Suzuki who performs the solo parts, while directing his colleagues in Bach Collegium Japan.

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September 2020

Soloist Suzuki, with the lively and responsive partnership of the Bach Collegium Japan provide invigorating performances. Their playing of the faster outer movements pulsates with energy.

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