JS Bach - Complete Concertos
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95303
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 9
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 20th May 2016
Contents
Works
Brandenburg Concertos nos 1-6, BWV1046-51 (complete)Concerto for 2 keyboards in C major, BWV1061
Concerto for 2 keyboards in C minor, BWV1060
Concerto for 2 keyboards in C minor, BWV1062
Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV1043
Concerto for 3 keyboards in C major, BWV1064
Concerto for 3 keyboards in D minor, BWV1063
Concerto for 3 violins, BWV1064R
Concerto for 3 violins in D major, after BWV1064
Concerto for 4 keyboards in A minor, BWV1065
Concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord in A minor, BWV1044
Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor, BWV1060
Concerto for viola da braccio in G major, BWV1055
Keyboard Concerto no.1 in D minor, BWV1052
Keyboard Concerto no.8 in D minor, BWV1059
Keyboard Concertos, BWV1052-1058 (complete)
Oboe Concerto in A major, BWV1055
Oboe Concerto in F major, BWV1053R
Oboe Concerto in G minor, BWV1056R
Oboe d'amore Concerto in A major, BWV1055R
Oboe d'amore Concerto in G major (arranged after 3 cantatas BWV100, 170 & 30)
Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV1052
Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV1056
Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, BWV1041
Violin Concerto no.2 in E major, BWV1042
Artists
Pieter‐Jan Belder (keyboard)Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord)
Andrius Puskunigis (oboe)
Musica Amphion
Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum
Netherlands Bach Ensemble
Amsterdam Bach Soloists
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra
Works
Brandenburg Concertos nos 1-6, BWV1046-51 (complete)Concerto for 2 keyboards in C major, BWV1061
Concerto for 2 keyboards in C minor, BWV1060
Concerto for 2 keyboards in C minor, BWV1062
Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV1043
Concerto for 3 keyboards in C major, BWV1064
Concerto for 3 keyboards in D minor, BWV1063
Concerto for 3 violins, BWV1064R
Concerto for 3 violins in D major, after BWV1064
Concerto for 4 keyboards in A minor, BWV1065
Concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord in A minor, BWV1044
Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor, BWV1060
Concerto for viola da braccio in G major, BWV1055
Keyboard Concerto no.1 in D minor, BWV1052
Keyboard Concerto no.8 in D minor, BWV1059
Keyboard Concertos, BWV1052-1058 (complete)
Oboe Concerto in A major, BWV1055
Oboe Concerto in F major, BWV1053R
Oboe Concerto in G minor, BWV1056R
Oboe d'amore Concerto in A major, BWV1055R
Oboe d'amore Concerto in G major (arranged after 3 cantatas BWV100, 170 & 30)
Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV1052
Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV1056
Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, BWV1041
Violin Concerto no.2 in E major, BWV1042
Artists
Pieter‐Jan Belder (keyboard)Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord)
Andrius Puskunigis (oboe)
Musica Amphion
Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum
Netherlands Bach Ensemble
Amsterdam Bach Soloists
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra
About
Although J.S. Bach used the word ‘concerto’ to refer to many of his church cantatas (the ones that he did not call, simply, ‘Stück’, or ‘piece’), the word’s Italian etymology usually denotes an ensemble work in which a particular element comes to the fore. Bach familiarised himself with the early Italian instrumental concerto tradition, produced by composers such as Albinoni and Torelli, with his characteristic thoroughness even before producing the Brandenburg concertos which he wrote while Kapellmeister in Weimar, in vain hope of preferment to a more glamorous posting to the court of the eponymous Margrave in Berlin.
The concertos of Antonio Vivaldi swept across Europe from 1711 onwards with the publication of his Op.3 set, ‘L’Estro Armonico’. Vivaldi set the standard for the shape, the style and the virtuosity of what we understand today as the concerto form, perfected in Bach’s own output in the D minor harpsichord concerto, BWV 1052. Bach himself transcribed several of Vivaldi’s concertos, both for solo keyboard and for chamber groupings – most famously the B minor concerto, originally with four solo violin parts, which Bach thrillingly amplified for four harpsichords. All this music is contained within this indispensable 9-CD set.
The performances here are all historically informed in style, if not all played on instruments either from or closely modelled on those used in Bach’s time. ‘Modern’‐instrument performances include the concertos which survive in versions for solo violin – though Bach probably wrote them originally with the harpsichord in mind – in which Thomas Zehetmair is both soloist and director of the Amsterdam Bach Soloists with his characteristically bold and incisive sound and interpretative insight. The oboe concerto recordings are Lithuanian in origin, with Andrius Puskunigis again soloist/director with the St Christopher Chamber Orchestra, in sprightly and mellifluous readings.
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