Johann Sebastian Bach - Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor, BWV 1058

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) - Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor, BWV 1058 (1738) I. [0:00] II. Andante [3:37] III. Allegro assai [9:34] Murray Perahia, piano Academy of St Martin in the Fields (2001) Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor is a work in three movements typically lasting around 13 minutes. “In only four cases do the concertos upon which J.S. Bach based his harpsichord concertos of the 1730s survive (there was no such thing as a harpsichord concerto until Bach began transcribing old violin and oboe concertos for performance by the Leipzig Collegium Musicum), and three of them are the famous three violin concertos (BWV 1041, 1042, and 1043, the last for two violins, and likewise for two harpsichords in the adaptation). It is the first of those violin concertos, the Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041, that Bach reshaped into the Harpsichord Concerto No. 7 in G minor, BWV 1058. The harpsichord version of the concerto, which is, of course, t