While employed as Court Director of Music to the young Prince Leopold of Anhalt-C?then, Bach wrote for the court orchestra a number of violin concertos, works that he later re-arranged for harpsichord. Three of these concertos also survive in their original form, the Concerto in A minor, the Concerto in E major and the famous Double Concerto in D minor, the slow movement of the last familiar from the sound-track of "Children of a Lesser God". Our recommended recording also includes an arrangement for violin and strings of Bach's E minor Violin Sonata by the 20th century Italian composer Respighi and the so-called Air on the G String from the third of the orchestral suites.
Recommended recording
Bach: Violin Concertos in A minor & E major, Double Concerto in D minor, Violin Sonata in E minor, Air on the G String, played by the Capella Istropolitana with Takako Nishizaki as soloist, joined, for the Double Concerto, by the violinist Alexander Jablokov, under the direction of Oliver Dohnányi.
Naxos 8.550194
