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Bach G Minor Violin Concerto BWV 1056 - CD Recommendations?

Jo Sharp

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Looking for a good recording of this work, but there seem to be very few on e.g. Amazon.

Grateful for recommendations.

Jo
 
The samples of Alina Ibragimova are very promising; I'll order that CD (I hadn't looked at the Presto website) - thanks for the suggestion.

And I think it is time to buy the Menuhin disc as well; it will be an interesting contrast to my Julia Fischer CD (which hasn't the G minor piece).
 
Violinist Monica Huggett and Ton Koopman's Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra on Erato (as was).

Warm, gutsy (literally, given the period instruments) performance, and a lovely recording in a Utrecht church. I'm happy with this one.
 
Why is this not in the classical section as well as the Glenn Gould thread? I find it rather annoying; IMO if you have classifications stick to them.

mat
 
The reason there are few recordings of this is perhaps that BWV1056 has come to us primarily as a keyboard concerto. As most of Bach's keyboard concerti started out as something else, musicologists have tried to go back to what might have been. The first and third movements seem to be from a violin concerto (now lost). The middle movement is very similar to (and perhaps a development by Bach of) a theme in a Telemann flute concerto. There are recordings of BWV1056 as a flute concerto.

As an alternative to the recordings mentioned, Amandine Beyer has recorded it with her ensemble Gli Incogniti on the ZigZag Territoires label. Beyer is a big baroque specialist and it's a HIP sort of record with a very small orchestra (one instrument per part). I like it. Have it on a CD with 1041, 1042, & 1052, as part of a larger box set with sonatas etc.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-Violin-Concertos-Amandine-Beyer/dp/B000OY6ISK/ref=sr_1_1_twi_aud_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1462616087&sr=8-1&keywords=beyer+bach+1056

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-Music-violin-J-S-C-P-E/dp/B00NB6P3LG/ref=sr_1_1_twi_aud_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1462616234&sr=8-1&keywords=beyer+bach
 
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I am a huge fan of these works and have heard quite a few versions, and I am still waiting for a modern one to match the 1960 Menuhin version. Listen to this and you'll know what Menuhin's interpretations were about.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006BBDOSC/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

Among the Bach violin performances of that era I always liked Szeryng. Beautiful, non nonsense performances. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to have recorded 1056, perhaps because in the 60s you got mostly 1041,1042 and 1043 and that was about it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-Sonatas-Partitas-Solo-Violin/dp/B00000E561/ref=sr_1_5_twi_aud_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1462616930&sr=1-5&keywords=szeryng+bach
 
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I am a huge fan of these works and have heard quite a few versions, and I am still waiting for a modern one to match the 1960 Menuhin version. Listen to this and you'll know what Menuhin's interpretations were about.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006BBDOSC/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21


Of the Bach violin concertos I own, this Menuhin version is my favorite. There's others I like very much but this one is so special for me. I have it on both vinyl and CD and in this case prefer the LP, although the cd is fine. I absolutely adore this Menuhin/Bach disc.
 
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Koch/Schwann produced a CD from a live recording of reconstructed Bach concertos which included 1056 on violin with Rainer Kussmaul and the Berliner Barock Soisten. A good concert with BWV 1064 for 3 violins, BWV 169/49/1053 as a viola concerto and 1060 an an oboe concerto with Albrecht Mayer playing. German Radio co-production from 2002
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