Happy Sunday! We continue to cover concertos for harpsichord that Bach composed practically while he lived in Cöthen, although they were later retouched. Some are preserved reconstructed although they do not stop having that quality that always exists in the music of Eisenach.
That composer is none other than Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) German composer born in Eisenach. Of all the books owned by the master, only those on theology were collected in detail in the inventory (from 1750), and they lead us to wonder if the collection was even larger. However, it is more intriguing to know why the other books are not picked up. Perhaps the simplest answer is that those books were removed from the middle before that inventory was drawn up, leaving only the theological ones. For the teacher, theology and music were two sides of the same coin: the search for divine revelation or, ultimately, the search for God.
Let’s enjoy your Concerto for harpsichord, oboe, strings and continuo No. 8 in D minor, BWV 1059. Only the first nine bars of the original work remain, although reconstruction is possible because Bach reused the work. It is possible that the work was already an adaptation of an oboe concerto. Before the concert, it is very possible that he adapted the first movement as the opening symphony of the cantata BWV 35 (they share those nine measures). To reconstruct the concerto, two instrumental movements of the same cantata are usually taken with some adaptation: the first aria for solo alto and the symphony with which the second half of the cantata begins, and which would constitute the third movement.
The score of the composition can download here.
The interpretation is of François Leleux (oboe) and the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
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Bach, harpsichord concerto BWV 1059