Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Performance material with the Urtext of the New Bach Edition
Brandenburg Concertos / Orchestral Suites
Cembalo Concertos · Violin / Viola Concertos · Oboe Concerto · Two Solo Instruments
Cantatas · Masses / Oratorios / Passions
Solo Concertos
(Ed. W. Breig)
In November 1999 Bärenreiter launched its complete edition of Bach’s concertos for solo harpsichord and orchestra. All eight concertos are presented in piano reductions with separate orchestra parts. Not only is the piano reduction suitable for conducting from the harpsichord, it also enables the works to be played on two harpsichords.
All of Bach’s solo harpsichord concertos are now available for performances with the »Urtext« of the New Bach Edition.
Concerto I in D minor BWV 1052
BA 5224a Piano Reduction. Strings available separately
Concerto II in E major BWV 1053
BA 5225a Piano Reduction. Strings available separately
Concerto III in D major BWV 1054
BA 5226a Piano Reduction. Strings available separately
Concerto IV in A major BWV 1055
BA 5227a Piano Reduction. Strings available separately
Concerto V in F minor BWV 1056
BA 5228a Piano Reduction. Strings available separately
Concerto VI in F major BWV 1057
BA 5229a Piano Reduction. Recorders, Strings available separately
Concerto VII in G minor BWV 1058
BA 5230a Piano Reduction. Strings available separately
Concerto in D minor BWV 1052a
version by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
First Edition
BA 5231a Piano Reduction. Strings available separately
New CD Recording using Bärenreiter Urtext Performing material:
Murray Perahia, Academy of St-Martin-
in-the-Fields (Sony)
Violin
Concerto in A minor BWV 1041
for Violin, Strings and Bc
(D. Kilian) / 15'
BA 5189
BA 5189a Piano Reduction (E. Salewski)
in TP 269 Study Score
Concerto in E major BWV 1042
for Violin, Strings and Bc
(D. Kilian) / 18’
BA 5190
BA 5190a Piano Reduction (J. Muntschick)
in TP 269 Study Score
Concerto in D minor for Violin, Strings and Bc. Reconstruction after BWV 1052
(W. Fischer) / 25'
BA 5144
BA 5144a Piano Reduction
Performance Material on Hire
Viola
Concerto in E-flat major for Viola and Strings. Reconstruction after the Cantatas BWV 169 & 49 and the Harpsichord Concerto in E major BWV 1053
(W. Fischer) / 19'
BA 5149
BA 5149a Piano Reduction (M. Töpel)
This Concerto in E-flat major for Viola, Strings and Basso Continuo is really something new.
It has been possible to reconstruct this lost work because fortunately it had been preserved in the form of arrangements by Bach himself. With these arrangements we refer to the Harpsichord Concerto in E-flat major (BWV 1053) and three cantata movements with obligato organ. The latter include the first movement (Sinfonia) and the second movement (Aria) » Stirb in mir, Welt« from the cantata » Gott soll allein mein Herze haben« (BWV 169) and the third movement (Sinfonia) from the cantata »Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen« (BWV 49).
In the past there were attempts to reconstruct several works by Bach. However they were based on the content of the Old Bach Edition which required significant revision. This reconstruction by Wilfried Fischer is based on a scholarly method which orientates itself on the handwritten sources of arrangements which Bach made himself for harpsichord (or respectively for organ). All autographs of these arrangements have been preserved and clearly conclude that the original on which these are based is the Viola Concerto.
Concerto in A major for Oboe d’amore (Oboe), Strings and Bc. Reconstruction after BWV 1055
(W. Fischer) / 21’
BA 5145
BA 5145a Piano Reduction (with Oboe and Oboe d’amore) (M. Biggam)
Double Concerto in D minor BWV 1043
for two Violins, Strings and Bc
(D. Kilian) / 16'
BA 5188
BA 5188a Piano Reduction (E. R. Barthel)
TP 284 Study Score
Concerto in C minor for Oboe, Violin, Strings and Bc. Reconstruction after BWV 1060
(W. Fischer) / 17'
BA 5147
BA 5147a Piano Reduction (J. Sommer)
Virtually all of Bach's harpsichord concertos are arrangements he made of his own violin and oboe concertos, of which some have survived and others are lost. One of the lost originals is the Concerto in C minor for oboe, violin, strings and basso continuo, which has survived only in Bach's arrangement for two harpsichords (BWV 1060). Wilfried Fischer's volume of reconstructions of lost solo concertos for the New Bach Edition (volume VII/7) draws on a special method of reconstruction developed from Bach's own technique of arrangement. This method has enabled Fischer to produce versions of the solo concertos as close as possible to the original.