Bach-Centricity – Concertos, Trios & Sonatas arranged for 2 harpsichords by David Ponsford

Artista: Ponsford / Hill

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: NMBA

Catalogo: 6454

Faixas: 1.2 Concerto in A minor (BWV 593) (after Antonio Vivaldi)~[Allegro]
1.11 Trio in C minor (BWV 585) (after J.F. Fasch)~Allegro
1.15 Brandenburg Concerto no. 6 in B flat (BWV 1051)~[Allegro]

The value of such arrangements is that they allow a wider perception into a composer’s compositional processes, and which have the potential for presenting new insights and different characteristics to particular pieces of music, which might not be evident in the originals. Hence these arrangements extend a practice that was normal in the early eighteenth century, and in this recording they are played on instruments with which Bach would have been entirely familiar. What revelations they reveal! David Ponsford