ExclusiveBach: Harpsichord Concerto no. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056 - II. Largo

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concerto no. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056 - II. Largo. This beautiful piece was played by Michel Rondeau. It has Creative Commons license (Attribution 3.0 Unported, CC BY 3.0 Deed) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Some of Bach's extremely popular harpsichord concertos were originally written as concertos for another solo instrument - the violin or a woodwind instrument. The F minor Concerto is also thought to have an earlier version, although it has not survived. A close examination of the sources suggests that the outer movements probably derive from a Violin Concerto in G minor. Recent research, however, suggests that Bach used the slow movement of an oboe concerto for the middle movement, which he also used for the sinfonia of the cantata BWV 156 "Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe". The text of the cantata fits perfectly with the melancholy mood of the Larghetto, which, with its gently swaying melody accompanied by string pizzicatos, is the famous centrepiece of the F minor Concerto. In addition to the autograph score, the Henle Urtext edition of this repertoire evergreen also draws on later manuscript source material documenting the final, considerably expanded version of the work. The piano reduction contains the solo part, sensitively fingered by Michael Schneidt, and a very playable accompaniment keyboard part, prepared for practical use by Johannes Umbreit.

Johann Sebastian Bach

For many musicians he is “the Alpha and Omega of all music” (Max Reger). Except for operas, Bach composed masterpieces for every ensemble and genre of his age. His catalogue of works contains almost 1,100 entries, including the great Passions of St. Matthew and St. Johan, the Goldberg Variations, the Brandenburg Concerti, or hundreds of singular cantatas. As organist in Mühlhausen and Weimar he creates primarily organ compositions, concerti, and works of chamber music. Later, as music director in Köthen and for the decades he serves as cantor in Leipzig, he composes chiefly sacred vocal compositions and keyboard works. His later, contrapuntally complex compositions exert an enormous influence on the compositional styles and practices of later generations.

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This was filmed by Christian or SImone Schlegel the video was edited by Wenjing Ma.





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