JS Bach - Harpsichord Concertos 1 & 2, The Art of Fugue
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4825187
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 10th March 2017
Contents
Works
Keyboard Concerto no.1 in D minor, BWV1052Keyboard Concerto no.2 in E major, BWV1053
The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV1080 (arr. Leonard Isaacs)
Artists
George Malcolm (harpsichord)Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Members of the Philomusica of London
Conductors
Karl MunchingerGeorge Malcolm
Works
Keyboard Concerto no.1 in D minor, BWV1052Keyboard Concerto no.2 in E major, BWV1053
The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV1080 (arr. Leonard Isaacs)
Artists
George Malcolm (harpsichord)Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Members of the Philomusica of London
Conductors
Karl MunchingerGeorge Malcolm
About
Scholars Donald Francis Tovey and Heinrich Husmann, working in the 1930s, and harpsichordists Isolde Ahlgrimm and Gustav Leonhardt in the 1950s, firmly established the work as a harpsichord piece (pedal harpsichord, in Ahlgrimm’s case). However, in his 1964 recording George Malcolm directed his colleagues of the Philomusica of London (an outgrowth of the Boyd Neel String Orchestra, founded in the 1930s) in English conductor Leonard Isaacs’s 1952 arrangement of the work for strings and winds (with some participation by Malcolm as harpsichordist). Leonard Isaacs (1909–1997) was, like Malcolm, a piano student of Herbert Fryer at the Royal College of Music.
Notes are by Peter Watchorn, an Australian-born, US-based harpsichordist, one of whose teachers, Harold Lobb, was also an associate of Malcolm. In Watchorn’s opinion, Malcolm’s greatest (and often over-looked) concerto recording was that of BWV 1052 and 1053 recorded in 1963 in Stuttgart with Münchinger’s celebrated chamber orchestra.
‘[a] finely directed performance … [Malcolm’s] instrumentalists are superb, so good that their playing and the variety of sounds sometimes diverted my attention from the amazing working of Bach’s mind!’ - (The Art of Fugue) Gramophone, February 1965
‘I give first prize to a record which took me out of my usual field: George Malcolm’s magnificent performance of Bach’s great Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor’ - Gramophone, December 1964 (Deryck Cooke, The Critics’ Choice)
‘this inspired harpsichord performance … superb skill and musical insight by George Malcolm … What a work and what a performance! And what a recording too’ - (Harpsichord Concertos) Gramophone, May 1964
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