Harpsichordist Francesco Corti offers fine performances of Bach's piano concertos, sometimes with quite brisk tempi. It is silly to say that haste was necessary, but in fact it was. The recording sessions were under great pressure, because Italy went into lockdown a day later. According to Corti's own words, these were the last professional notes he and his ensemble would play for a long time. With
… this second album (and, of course, the previous one from 2019), Bach's 'official' keyboard concertos have been recorded on CD. Bach composed most of them in Leipzig in the 1730s. For this he recycled older concertos, originally mostly for violin. (HJ)more
