Concerto in D major
BWV 972 performed by Richard Egarr
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Behind the music
Story
Story
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Credits
A personal twist
Bach couldn’t resist adding something of himself as well
In 1713, Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar returned from the Netherlands full of enthusiasm. He had heard lots of good music and brought back many new music publications to Weimar. His enthusiasm was shared by Johann Sebastian Bach, who was 28 at the time and working at Weimar as court organist and chamber musician. Sometimes on commission from Johann Ernst and sometimes of his own accord, he arranged a great number of concertos from Italy for organ or harpsichord. And when Bach arranged something, or rather rewrote it, he couldn’t resist giving it a personal twist. This was also the case with this Concerto in D major, a harpsichord version of Vivaldi’s Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra, RV 230 (concert no. 9 from Vivaldi’s collection L’estro armonico). Harpsichordist Richard Egarr explains, for example, how Bach added an interesting part for the left hand in the third movement, and how in the first movement he fitted a whole string orchestra onto one harpsichord, while also making the music more appropriate for keyboard.
- BWV
- 972
- Title
- Concerto in D major
- Instrument
- harpsichord
- Genre
- harpsichord works
- Year
- 1713-14
- City
- Weimar
- Special notes
- Transcription of a concerto by Vivaldi (RV 230)
Extra videos
Vocal texts
Original
Translation
Credits
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- Release date
- 17 September 2020
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- Recording date
- 11 May 2018
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- Location
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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- Harpsichordist
- Richard Egarr
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- Harpsichord
- Johannes Ruckers, 1640
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- Director and editor
- Bas Wielenga
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- Music recording
- Guido Tichelman, Bastiaan Kuijt, Pim van der Lee
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- Music edit and mix
- Guido Tichelman
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- Camera
- Ramon de Boer, Tim van der Voort, Bart Krimp
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- Lights
- Zen Bloot, Henry Rodgers
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- Camera-assistant/grip
- Robin Noort
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- Assistant director
- Ferenc Soeteman
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- Set technique
- Alex de Gier
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- Data handling
- Kira Falticeau
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- Project manager videobrix
- Peter Hazenberg
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- Interview
- Onno van Ameijde, Marloes Biermans
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- Producer concert
- Imke Deters
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- Producer film
- Jessie Verbrugh
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