J.S. Bach - Concerto III for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1062 (1736)

[@jhonwask]

This has one of the most lyrical second movements I've ever heard.

[@lucpraslan]

Also known as the C minor oboe and violin concerto 👍🏻👍🏻 Such a great work.

[@user-ol1ib1ss2b]

No it's the double violin concerto in d minor BWV 1043.

[@Mabbdaa]

You’re thinking of the wrong piece

[@lucpraslan]

You're correct! Thank you. This is also the concerto for two violins in D minor. ​@@Mabbdaa

[@lucpraslan]

​@@user-ol1ib1ss2bThank you, my mistake!

[@Mabbdaa]

@@lucpraslan I’ve also confused the two before - both arrangements are for 2 harpsichords in C minor

[@_PROCLUS]

Muchas gracias y un profundo aprecio por su hermoso trabajo 💝💝💝

[@christianwouters6764]

Idd, that figures. Harpsichord range in Bachs' days just 4 octaves from C tot c 3

[@christianwouters6764]

The original concerto was in d minor. I wonder why Bach allways transposed concerto's when he transcribed them for harpsichords( or maybe the other way around, we don't know the chronology). The E major violin concerto exists in a keyboard version in D, the 4th Brandenburg in G has a keyboard alternative in F. Sth to do with easier fingering maybe?

[@bartjebartmans]

The answer is simple, is has to do with the range of the keyboard.

[@christianwouters6764]

Of course, I should have known that. Range of harpsichord was only 4 octaves.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

@@christianwouters6764 Depends upon which harpsichord -- the harpsichords he was using in concertos had limited range, but harpsichords did exist at the time that had 5 octaves of range. And occasionally he didn't transpose, as in the concerto for violin and oboe in C minor(*) that stayed in C minor when he rearranged it for 2 harpsichords. (*)This was mistakenly transcribed UP to D minor when reconstructing it in the past, as was available in the 1970s.

[@ceticobr]

To my ears Bach's in concertos for 2+ harpsichords, the soloist instruments sound like they are doing the soloing and the contiuo at the same time.

[@stefanocrosazzo3262]

Exactly because it's pretty much what they do

[@millennial8441]

Even to Mozart's keyboard concertos the fortepiano acted both as soloist and continuo.

[@johnchessant3012]

First

[@millennial8441]

I know this concerto as that on D minor for two violins. I really hate these arrangements the composers did on those times for their own works.

[@bartjebartmans]

You hate Bach's own arrangement of his own concertos for his own use with his sons and students? How messed up.

[@saldana7395]

​@@bartjebartmanslmao