Sonorous Phrases J S Bach keyboard concertos - heard by ROBERT ANDERSON '... a delightful and appropriate lightness.'

The accomplished soloist in these concertos, Peter Seivewright, spends much of his booklet essay refuting the long-accepted view that Bach's seven keyboard concertos are mostly arrangements of violin works. Since three of them certainly are (most notably the Fourth Brandenburg Concerto), I am dubious of his case. The keyboard part in the Fifth Brandenburg, with its extended 'cadenza', shows Bach in full virtuoso flight. There is nothing comparable here...

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

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