Simon Heighes introduces a concert given by La Follia and Ensemble Polyharmonique at the Regensburg Early Music Days festival in Germany. The music all has a Bach connection, although we’re hardly going to hear a note by the man himself, because we’re entering the shadowy world of ‘Bach the arranger’. Many of his arrangements are now amongst his best-loved works, like his keyboard versions of Vivaldi’s concertos, and tonight we're going to hear his tinkerings with the works of Francesco Durante, Marco Peranda and Francesco Conti.
JSB did tinkerings, did he?
JSB did tinkerings, did he?