In Brief

Here are historically informed performances at their best, with alert and vigorous tempos in the outer movements and songful expression in the middle. Manze is the primary soloist and demonstrates fleet virtuosity, sinuous grace and subtle dynamics and phrasing. Podger is decidedly an equal, in two double concertos. Both communicate joy in their playing. The arrangement of BWV 1060 is a gamble. The work currently exists in two versions--one for two harpsichords; another for violin and oboe. Manze (and others) posits a lost original for two violins, heard here, and makes a case for it with spirited playing.