Bach, J S: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1-7 BWV1052-1058

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They’ve recorded all seven of Bach’s concertos from his Liepzig years with a sense of playfulness and dynamic interplay … outstanding communication between them all in the seven Bach concertos... — CD Review, 29th August 2015 More…

Release Date: 28th Aug 2015
Catalogue No: HMC902181/82
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

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

Work length22:59

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I. Allegro

Track length7:48

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II. Adagio

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III. Allegro

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

Work length19:52

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Track length8:31

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II. Siciliano

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III. Allegro

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Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor, BWV1058

Work length13:28

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Track length3:36

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II. Andante

Track length5:46

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III. Allegro assai

Track length4:06

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Bach, J S: Concerto No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1054

Work length17:01

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Track length7:41

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II. Adagio e piano sempre

Track length6:39

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III. Allegro

Track length2:41

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Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major, BWV1055

Work length13:58

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I. Allegro

Track length4:24

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II. Larghetto

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III. Allegro ma non troppo

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

Work length9:21

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Track length3:05

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II. Largo

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III. Presto

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Bach, J S: Concerto No. 6 in F Major, BWV 1057

Work length15:14

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Track length6:52

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II. Andante

Track length3:32

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III. Allegro assai

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The seven fabulously inventive concertos for solo harpsichord and orchestra mark a key stage in the history of the concertante form. The set was compiled during Bach’s Leipzig years, when he directed the city’s Collegium Musicum, and requires unfailing virtuosity and imagination of its performers. The contagious, invigorating pleasure one feels in the interpretations of Andreas Staier and the Freiburger Barockorchester restores the full range of meanings to the word ‘play’!

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CD Review 29th August 2015

They’ve recorded all seven of Bach’s concertos from his Liepzig years with a sense of playfulness and dynamic interplay … outstanding communication between them all in the seven Bach concertos here.

Early Music Review October 2015

This is as near as it comes to superlative playing from all concerned, and that coupled with exceptional recording and editing makes this a very fine version. I recommend it unreservedly.

September 2015

If you're looking for fun, abandon…and luminosity, then maybe this is not for you. However, it's still probably the most brilliant executed of any version in the catalogue, one whose tough, intellectual, aesthetic and geometric logic celebrates Bach with sustained and impressive consideration.

18th October 2015

Staier possesses both the wisdom of experience and an enduringly youthful sense of delight in discovery to make these accounts the more deeply compelling; the phrasing is fresh, but never mannered.

27th August 2015

Andreas Staier’s grit, flair and expressive freedom, plus Freiburger Barockorchester’s athletic ensemble playing, makes these performances bounce and swing. Staier embraces the chunky chordal textures gained over the single-line originals and gives them a thick, meaty attack that is great fun.

October 2015

These concertos can feel severe and hectic in some performances, but here they are stylish and rhythmically energised. The orchestral players make the unstoppable onrush seem springy and light, rather than relentlessly motoric. They play up the huge variety of tone, from the dark severity of the Fifth Concerto to the lightness of the Second, which on this recording trips along with a lovely soft-edged delicacy.

Early Music Today March/May 2016

Staier and the Freiburger Barockorchester bring a…serious creativity to their performances: they imbue fast movements with a purposeful yet buoyant swing and keep the delicately sketched slow movements taut and focused … the recorded sound is excellent, judiciously balancing harpsichord and orchestra in their exhilarating and joyous exchanges.

28th August 2015

The playing bristles with energy, and both the harpsichord and the period instruments of the Freiburgers are presented in larger-than-life, hyperreal close focus rather than the balances of the concert hall.

Herald Scotland 16th December 2015

Grit, flair and expressive freedom from Andreas Staier in Bach’s seven solo harpsichord concertos, with Freiburg Baroque giving athletic ensemble backing. The attack is irresistibly thick and meaty.

Bach, J S: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1-7 BWV1052-1058

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