Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto for Oboe and Violin, BWV 1060

- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 -- 28 July 1750) - Orchestra: Münchener Bach-Orchester - Conductor: Karl Richter - Soloists: Otto Büchner (violin), Edgar Shann (oboe) - Year of recording: 1963 Concerto for Oboe & Violin (or 2 violins), strings & continuo (reconstruction), BWV 1060, written in 1736. 00:00 - 1. Allegro 05:26 - 2. Adagio 10:59 - 3. Allegro Though the manuscript to this concerto was lost, a reconstruction of it was made possible because, in 1736, Bach had arranged it as the Concerto for two harpsichords and orchestra in C minor (BWV 1060), a work whose score survived and served as a model for the original. The identical relationship exists between the Concerto for three violins, strings & continuo in D major (BWV 1064R), and the Concerto in C major for three harpsichords (BWV 1064). Though the (modern-day) reconstructions are not the work of Bach, they are arguably as authentic a treatment of the music as the harpsichord transcriptions the composer later made. - The opening A
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