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Reviewer: Bradley
Lehman Having about 20 other recordings of the Bach multiple-harpsichord concertos, including the older one led by Pinnock with Mortensen’s participation, I was not in the market for another one. The compositions are well served so many times over. Nevertheless, this new set recorded in 2011 and 2013 is terrific, and it compelled me to go buy the two earlier discs where Mortensen plays the single-harpsichord concertos (recorded 2002 and 2005). This is so good that I’d recommend it to friends who don’t have any other recordings of the pieces, for the joy of the music played energetically. Concerto Copenhagen (“CoCo”) and the harpsichordists make everything sound natural and vital, with moderate tempos and no eccentricities. Mortensen is their stand-up director regularly, but he leads all of these from a harpsichord. This is some of Bach’s most visceral music, especially the two concertos for three harpsichords, written for public
entertainment at a
coffeehouse. Another high point is the slow movement of the double concerto
in C minor that is usually played in D minor on violins: Mortensen and
Pinnock have their left hands on manuals registered with buff stops, letting
the more sustained melodies in their right hands project through the texture
more clearly. The Triple Concerto is the one with violin, flute, and
harpsichord, arranged by Bach by recycling a harpsichord solo prelude and
fugue and one of the organ trio sonatas. Katy Bircher and Manfredo Kraemer
play the flute and violin solos. It shows how Bach as orchestrator added new
contrapuntal parts imaginatively on top of already-complete pieces, along
with inserting new sections. In the slow movement Bach has the violin and
flute exchange parts on the repeats. Does this have implications for
organists changing stops or manuals on repeats in the original trio sonatas?
Most of the concertos are played with strings in a hefty-sounding
configuration of 4-4-2-2-1 and two of them with only one player per part.
Mortensen did it both ways in the single-harpsichord concertos of this
series, too: three concertos with single strings, the rest with bigger
sections. Some other lithe one-per part performances not to miss are the
multiharpsichord set led by Pieter-Jan Belder (Brilliant), and the Triple
Concerto by Rachel Podger (Channel SACD). | |
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