Bach Keyboard Concertos - Tianqi Du - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

These works range from there fined and elegant (Allegro and Larghetto of the A major Concerto , BWV1055) to the positively rambunctious (last movement of the D minor, and first of the Concerto BWV1054), and bear the mark of the Italian style that Johann Sebastian Bach had learned in his early years, almost in secret, while he was under the tutelage of his brother Johann Christoph. As Tianqi Du himself suggests, these works show the more approachable, more humane, and less intimidating side of Bach’s imposing genius. They were written specifically for public performances in the Café Zimmerman, Saint Catherine Street, in Leipzig. The Cantor would happily sit at the keyboard, as would some of his numerous children, students, or even family and friends. The atmosphere was relaxed, joyful, and for these moments of simple pleasure, Bach would create with in the decade of 1730 an impressive quantity of new works (often lost), as well as adaptations of older music originally written for violin, oboe, or even oboe d’amore.

Label: Naive | Origin: Holland