Bach's life was a searching for all that was best in his art to refine
it in the fire of his genius. -- *Grove's Dictionary of Music and
Musicians
*Bach's mastery of rhythm and harmony, inventiveness, and genius for
composition produced some of the richest and most beautiful music of all
time. Those qualities are strikingly evident in his early concerti,
which are among the most recorded and performed works in the baroque
repertoire.
This easy-to-read volume reprints, complete and unabridged, the master's
seven complete concerti for solo keyboard and orchestra from the
renowned Bach-Gesellschaft edition, still considered the primary source
for Bach's music. Composed in Leipzig (c. 1735), these elegant works are
almost completely based on earlier extant or lost concerti by Bach for
violin and wind instruments. The concerti reproduced here in full score
include Concerto in D Minor (BWV1052), Concerto in E Major (BWV 1053),
Concerto in D Major (BWV 1054), Concerto in A Major (BWV 1055), Concerto
in F Minor (BWV 1056), Concerto in F Major (BWV 1057), and Concerto in G
Minor (BWV 1058).
Musicians, students, and Bach devotees will applaud this clearly
printed, wonderfully affordable playing edition of classic compositions
by the supreme master of the baroque.