JS Bach - Bach-Centricity: Concertos, Trios & Sonatas arr. for 2 Harpsichords | Nimbus - Alliance NI6454

JS Bach - Bach-Centricity: Concertos, Trios & Sonatas arr. for 2 Harpsichords

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Label: Nimbus - Alliance

Cat No: NI6454

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 3rd January 2025

Contents

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Aria in F major, BWV587 (after F Couperin) (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Brandenburg Concerto no.6 in B flat major, BWV1051 (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Organ Concerto in A minor, BWV593 (after Vivaldi) (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Organ Concerto in C major, BWV595 (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Organ Concerto in D minor, BWV596 (after Vivaldi) (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Organ Concerto in G major, BWV592 (after Johann Ernst) (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Trio in C minor, BWV585 (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Trio in D minor, BWV583 (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Viola da gamba Sonata in G major, BWV1027 (arr. for 2 harpsichords)

Artists

David Ponsford (harpsichord)
David Hill (harpsichord)

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Aria in F major, BWV587 (after F Couperin) (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Brandenburg Concerto no.6 in B flat major, BWV1051 (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Organ Concerto in A minor, BWV593 (after Vivaldi) (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Organ Concerto in C major, BWV595 (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Organ Concerto in D minor, BWV596 (after Vivaldi) (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Organ Concerto in G major, BWV592 (after Johann Ernst) (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Trio in C minor, BWV585 (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Trio in D minor, BWV583 (arr. for 2 harpsichords)
Viola da gamba Sonata in G major, BWV1027 (arr. for 2 harpsichords)

Artists

David Ponsford (harpsichord)
David Hill (harpsichord)

About

‘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

‘The Two Davids’, as they have sometime been called, began playing together in 2020 when they recorded Bach’s Six Organ Trio Sonatas (NI6403) on two harpsichords. This recording elicited the following review in Choir & Organ: ‘The recording conveys a compelling sense of dialogue and sociability between two virtuoso musicians, equally at one with the material, and the alternation between instruments makes great sense of Bach’s antiphony and repeats.’ Since then they have played at the St Albans and Cambridge Festivals, as well as for music societies in various parts of the country, including The Athenaeum Club in London.

David Ponsford is an organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and conductor, and an authority on keyboard music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In March 2024 he was awarded The Medal of the Royal College of Organists, its highest honour, ‘in recognition of distinguished achievement in organ performance and scholarship’.

Renowned for his fine musicianship, David Hill is widely respected as an organist, conductor and educator. He is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music and a recipient of the Medal of the Royal College of Organists. He is a regular contributor to the publication Choir and Organ.

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