J.S. Bach - Concerto in D minor after Alessandro Marcello, BWV 974 II. Adagio / Summer 2020 Sessions

Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto in D minor after Alessandro Marcello, BWV 974 II. Adagio Another performance of famous music - Adagio by Marcello, arranged by Bach. Although it is quite difficult to say who actually wrote this piece (see description below), one thing is certain - having met an exotic and rare Pleyel grand piano on my way, I definitely could not pass by without playing this instrument. *The Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935, is an early 18th-century concerto for oboe, strings and continuo attributed to the Venetian composer Alessandro Marcello. The earliest extant manuscript containing Johann Sebastian Bach’s solo keyboard arrangement of the concerto, BWV 974, dates from around 1715. As a concerto for oboe, strings and continuo its oldest extant sources date from 1717: that year it was printed in Amsterdam, and a C minor variant of the concerto, S Z799, was written down. Bach’s keyboard version was published as an arrangement of a concerto by Antonio Vivaldi in the 19th century. In 1923 the C minor version of the oboe concerto was published as a composition by Benedetto Marcello, Alessandro’s brother. In the second half of the 20th century several publications indicated Alessandro again as the composer of the piece, as it had been in its early 18th-century print, and the oboe concerto was again published in its D minor version. In the 20th and 21st centuries the concerto developed into a well-established repertoire piece, as well as an oboe concerto as performed on keyboard. #Coversart #Summer2020sessions #Pleyel