In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe).When Johann Sebastian Bach created his six-part corpus of harpsichord concertos in 1738 (BWV 1052-1057) he gave pride of place to the Concerto in D minor BWV 1052. It has long been thought for good reasons that this piece was based on a lost violin concerto in the same key that he had already transcribed on twoprevious occasions.The second 'forerunner' of BWV 1052 is the present harpsichord concerto. It was first published by Wilhelm Rust in volume 17 of the old Bach Society Gesamtausgabe (1869) and given the number BWV 1052a in the Schmieder catalogue. Rust felt that Johann Sebastian Bach himself wrote out the principal source a set of orchestral parts preserved in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek under the shelf mark Mus. ms. St 350 and therefore treated the piece as an authentic early version of BWV 1052. Today however we know that the scribe was Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach who is generally also regarded as the work's author.Urtext of the New Bach EditionParts (BA5231) two-keyboard reduction (BA5231-90) and study score (TP410) format 22.5 x 16.5cm (all 6 concertos) available for sale

Bach?s Harpsichord concerti extremely popular among pianists are presumably reworkings of pieces originally written for the Violin. Bach however succeeded in transferring the diverse idiosyncrasies of Violin technique to the keyboard with such ingenuity that most of today?s pianists also include these concerti in their standard repertoire. The first concerto in d minor is perhaps the most popular not least because of its jaunty outer movements and the eminently forceful solo part. Now as a prelude to a series of all of Bach?s Harpsichord concerti G. Henle Publishers presents a Piano reduction and study edition(score) of the d-minor concerto. None other than András Schiff the outstanding Bach expert has provided fingering suggestions.

Bach?s Harpsichord concerti extremely popular among pianists are presumably reworkings of pieces originally written for the Violin. Bach however succeeded in transferring the diverse idiosyncrasies of Violin technique to the keyboard with such ingenuity that most of today?s pianists also include these concerti in their standard repertoire. The first concerto in d minor is perhaps the most popular not least because of its jaunty outer movements and the eminently forceful solo part. Now as a prelude to a series of all of Bach?s Harpsichord concerti G. Henle Publishers presents a Piano reduction and study edition (score) of the d-minorconcerto. None other than András Schiff the outstanding Bach expert has provided fingering suggestions.

Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto pour clavecin n° 1 en ré mineur BWV 1052 Norbert Müllemann (Editeur) Johannes Umbreit (Réduction pour piano) Michael Schneidt (Doigtés) Les concertos pour clavecin de Bach tant aimés des pianistes sont probablement des transcriptions d??uvres originellement composées pour le violon. Bach a cependant réussi à reporter sur le clavier diverses spécificités de la technique violonistique avec un tel raffinement que même la plupart des pianistes contemporains considèrent ces concertos comme une partie indissociable de leur répertoire. Le premier concerto en ré mineur est peut-être le préféré ? ne serait-ce que par ses premier et dernier mouvements pleins d?élan, ainsi que par sa partie de soliste impressionnante. Avec la réduction pour piano et la partition d?étude (score complet) de ce concerto en ré mineur, les Éditions G. Verlag ouvrent une série consacrée à tous les concertos pour clavecin de Bach.