18-05-2025
Bach: Keyboard Concertos, BWV 1052, 1053, 1054 & 1056
Italian pianist Beatrice Rana explores the universal qualities of Johann Sebastian Bach's music with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta in this week's Feature Album on ABC Classic. Rana performs four of Bach's Keyboard Concertos, BWV 1052, 1053, 1054 and 1056, with the musicians of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta led by concertmaster Candida Thompson.
'For me, the universal quality of this music opens up the question of choosing between the harpsichord of Bach's own time and the modern piano,' Rana says. 'I sincerely hope Bach would have liked his concertos performed on the piano. Certainly, the evidence is that his music succeeds on every kind of instrument. We need only think of all the arrangements of his compositions for various ensembles and of those taken into the jazz repertoire, for example.'
