Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach left Weimar in 1717. Many of Bach's orchestral harpsichord concertos are adapted from a model with one or more violin solo parts. Several of these earlier models are extant. The oldest of these is Vivaldi's concerto for four violins, RV 580, published in 1711, model for Bach's concerto for four harpsichords, BWV 1065. Bach replaced the part of his fourth "Brandenburg Concerto", BWV 1049, composed in 1721 or earlier, by a harpsichord part when he reworked it to the harpsichord concerto BWV 1057. Bach's extant violin concertos BWV 1041–1043, two for a single violin soloist and one for two violin
Concertos (Michael Nyman album) Concertos (Michael Nyman album) Concertos is the 31st album by Michael Nyman, released in 1997. It contains three concerti commissioned from Nyman, the Mazda-sponsored "Double Concerto for Saxophone and Cello", featuring John Harle and Julian Lloyd Webber, the "Harpsichord Concerto" for Elisabeth Chojnacka, and the "Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra" for Christian Lindberg. The album was intended as the first in a series of Nyman recordings, as it reads "NYMAN EDITION No1: Concertos" on the EMI label, but Nyman's only other release on EMI (until "The Actors" in 2003), "The Suit and the Photograph" does not have such designation. The