ExclusiveBach: Concerto for 3 Harpsichords in D minor, BWV 1063 - Complete Performance

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for 3 Harpsichords in D minor, BWV 1063 - Complete Performance. This beautiful piece was played by Ruggero Gerlin and Huguette Dreyfus. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through musopen.org.

The Triple Concerto in D minor, a somewhat more severe sounding piece than Bach's other multiple concertos, is thought to be based on a lost original for three instruments, perhaps three violins, although there is no general agreement about the original instrumentation. Unlike Bach's other concertos for multiple soloists, this work does not treat the three harpsichords equally. The first harpsichord gets most of the solo and virtuosic passage work in the first two movements, although each of the three takes a solo turn in the last movement. The writing suggests that Bach may well have written the first part for himself to play and had his sons or students play the second and third parts. There are a number of accounts of this concerto being played on pianos in the nineteenth century, perhaps the most notable one having Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt and composer/conductor Ferdinand Hiller as the three soloists.
Source: https://baroque.boston/js-bach-concertos-for-multiple-harpsichords

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