J.S. Bach - Oboe d'amore Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055r

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Oboe d'amore Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055r Composed around 1738; reconstructed for oboe d'amore by Wilfried Fischer (1938-2023) Performed by Douglas Boyd (b. 1959), oboe, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, directed by the soloist Recorded March 1989 at the Kammermusiksaal of the Berlin Philharmonie 0:00 I. (ohne Bezeichnung) 4:28 II. Larghetto 9:43 III. Allegro ma non tanto Johann Sebastian Bach’s Oboe d'amore Concerto in A major, BWV 1055r, derives from a surviving harpsichord concerto composed in Leipzig around 1738. While lacking direct precursors in Bach's surviving church cantatas, musicological consensus points to a lost original prototype written for the oboe d'amore during his earlier Cöthen period around 1721. Modern performances utilize reconstructions—such as the edition prepared for this recording by Hermann Töttcher and Gottfried Müller—restoring the piece to its intended woodwind coloring and idiom.