They are among the first concertos for keyboard instrument ever written. In many cases, only the harpsichord version has survived. In addition, there is a nine-bar concerto fragment for harpsichord BWV which adds an oboe to the strings and continuo.

There are seven complete concertos for a single harpsichord BWV -three concertos for two harpsichords BWV -two concertos for three harpsichords BWV andand one concerto for four harpsichords BWV Two other concertos include solo harpsichord parts: the concerto BWVwhich has solo parts for harpsichord, violin and flute, and Brandenburg Concerto No. Pages 27 and 28 are missing.The harpsichord concertosBWV -, are concertos for harpsichordstrings and continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach. This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. Editor Wilhelm Rust - Bach-Gesellschaft AusgabeBand 17 pp. These file s are part of the Werner Icking Music Collection. Performers Robert-Veyron-Lacroix harpsichord - Orchestre de chambre et dir. Duration 12 minutes Composer Time Period Comp. Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 3. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. This conductor, btw, is a composer and an inveterate arranger for strings of almost anything, from the 14th century to Stravinsky, which we are liable to find in front of us at no notice whatsoever! Good for sight-reading.PDF typeset by editor Budeanu.

It worked, although technically not easy - several sections are on a par with the later string quartets. Several recordings are in the Naxos Catalog.Ī couple of years ago the conductor of a small chamber ensemble I play in placed in front of us at a rehearsal his own transcription for strings of Beethoven's 'Diabelli' Variations for piano. One unexpected transcription, which imo doesn't come off particularly well compared with the original, was Beethoven's own arrangement of his violin concerto as a piano concerto, Op 61a. What is useful is flute (oboe, recorder) to violin transcription, which was done frequently in the 17th and 18th centuries by composers of the time, and is generally successful. Whether cello-to-violin transcriptions necessarily always work musically is another matter, mainly because the cello can naturally take advantage of resonances that just don't exist on the violin - Kodaly Op 8 again comes to mind in this respect. There are obvious examples in Kodaly's Op 8 for solo cello involving the use of the thumb position high up the fingerboard. It works quite well.Īlthough most cello music can be transcribed to the violin (or viola, witness Elgar's viola version of his cello concerto) there are some aspects of cello technique at the virtuoso level that would be difficult to transcribe 'as is' onto the violin.

There is a modern cello version (in Schirmer) of one of Mozart's flute concertos - he never did get round to writing a cello concerto :( - with the slow movement taken from an oboe quartet.

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