Bach's Concerto for Two Violins BWV 1043

Bach's concerto for two violins BWV 1043 is a popular work, especially for violinists. The earliest of the 19 recordings I possess dates from 1915 (Kreisler and Zimbalist). A friend recommended a YouTube performance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leTVfMb2uME) given by Arabella Miho Steinbacher and Akiko Suwanai, filmed at a concert in the Louvre in Paris in 2010. A truly delightful rendition, with the two young women plainly enjoying their dialogue and choosing, to my mind, exactly the right tempi in all three movements. Their “period instruments” (“Booth” Strad of 1716, and “Dolphin” Strad of 1714) sound superb played, thank goodness, in a thoroughly modern manner. The slow movement almost merits the over-used epithet “heavenly”. And not forgetting the accompanying band of Sergey Khachatryan, Manrico Padovani, Yuki Manuela Janke, Kazuhide Isomura, Danjuro Ishizaka, Maggie Cole. This goes to the very top of my 19 recordings of the work, despite the limitation of compressed YouTube sound. This is how Bach's double concerto ought to sound. Coincidentally, the work was composed within a few years of the date the two Strad violins played here were made in Cremona.