Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 the concerto to the set of "Brandenburg Concertos" in 1721 he had reworked it for a two-manual harpsichord, expanding the accompaniment with an additional cello part. Because of the limited input of the violin and flute solo parts, as compared to that of the harpsichord, the concerto can be seen as a harpsichord concerto, moreover, the first harpsichord concerto ever written. Nonetheless, the structure of the concerto and the soloist material of the harpsichordist are greatly indebted to violin concertos such as Vivaldi's "Grosso mogul" (which Bach had transcribed for organ, BWV 594) and Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar's G major
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