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J Bach B / Thuringer Bach Collegium- Orchestral Suites (CD)

SKU: 4022143977700
¥145.00
the album cover for J Bach B / Thuringer Bach Collegium - Orchestral Suites
the album cover for J Bach B / Thuringer Bach Collegium - Orchestral Suites

Johann Bernhard Bach's four Orchestral Suites, composed for the court orchestra of the cultured duke of Saxony-Eisenach, are amongst the most varied and sophisticated musical works of the high baroque period in Middle Germany. It was not by chance that Georg Philipp Telemann, a one-time Kapellmeister at Eisenach, commented retrospectively: "I have to praise this orchestra, arranged for the most part according to the French style, for it surpassed the very famous Parisian opera orchestra." From 1703, Bernard Bach was engaged as harpsichordist in this noble orchestra. His Orchestral Suites provide the only surviving "soundtrack" of the illustrious musical life at the Eisenach court during the 1710s and 20s. And what a soundtrack: cosmopolitan, and truly European, with sparkling virtuosic brilliance, as if written by a fiery Italian, whilst displaying the elegant taste of a noble Frenchman. In other words, the "mixed taste", for which the best German composers of the late baroque period were famous, in it's finest form. Little wonder then that Bernhard Bach's suites became core repertoire for Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig Collegium Musicum, also influencing his compositions. All this provides sufficient motivation for the Thuringian Bach Collegium to continue their exploration through the Middle German courts for their second recording and, with unbridled enthusiasm in their music-making, to bring these jewels of the early Thuringian orchestral music back to life. Bon Appetit!

Tracklist:

  1. Orchestral Suite No. 1: I. Ouverture
  2. Orchestral Suite No. 1: II. Air
  3. Orchestral Suite No. 1: III. Rondeau
  4. Orchestral Suite No. 1: IV. Loure
  5. Orchestral Suite No. 1: V. Fantaisie
  6. Orchestral Suite No. 1: VI. Passepied
  7. Orchestral Suite No. 2: I. Ouverture
  8. Orchestral Suite No. 2: II. Gavotte En Rondeau
  9. Orchestral Suite No. 2: III. Sarabande
  10. Orchestral Suite No. 2: IV. Bourrée: Gayement
  11. Orchestral Suite No. 2: V. Air: Grave
  12. Orchestral Suite No. 2: VI. Menuett
  13. Orchestral Suite No. 2: VII. Gigue
  14. Il Zelo Di Leonata: Ouverture (Used 1730 By Johann Sebastian Bach In A Performance With His Collegium Musicum As Final Movement
  15. Orchestral Suite No. 3: I. Ouverture
  16. Orchestral Suite No. 3: II. Air
  17. Orchestral Suite No. 3: III. Les Plaisirs
  18. Orchestral Suite No. 3: IV. Menuet I - Menuet II - Menuet I
  19. Orchestral Suite No. 3: V. Air
  20. Orchestral Suite No. 3: VI. Rigadon
  21. Orchestral Suite No. 3: VII. Courante
  22. Orchestral Suite No. 3: VIII. Gavotte En Rondeaux
  23. Orchestral Suite No. 4: I. Ouverture
  24. Orchestral Suite No. 4: II. Caprice I
  25. Orchestral Suite No. 4: III. Marche
  26. Orchestral Suite No. 4: IV. Passepied I - Passepied II - Passepied I
  27. Orchestral Suite No. 4: V. Caprice II
  28. Orchestral Suite No. 4: VI. Air: Lentement
  29. Orchestral Suite No. 4: VII. La Joye
  30. Orchestral Suite No. 4: VIII. Caprice III

UPC > 4022143977700

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Label > Audite

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J Bach B / Thuringer Bach Collegium- Orchestral Suites (CD)

SKU: 4022143977700
¥145.00

Release Date: 11.01.2019

 
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Johann Bernhard Bach's four Orchestral Suites, composed for the court orchestra of the cultured duke of Saxony-Eisenach, are amongst the most varied and sophisticated musical works of the high baroque period in Middle Germany. It was not by chance that Georg Philipp Telemann, a one-time Kapellmeister at Eisenach, commented retrospectively: "I have to praise this orchestra, arranged for the most part according to the French style, for it surpassed the very famous Parisian opera orchestra." From 1703, Bernard Bach was engaged as harpsichordist in this noble orchestra. His Orchestral Suites provide the only surviving "soundtrack" of the illustrious musical life at the Eisenach court during the 1710s and 20s. And what a soundtrack: cosmopolitan, and truly European, with sparkling virtuosic brilliance, as if written by a fiery Italian, whilst displaying the elegant taste of a noble Frenchman. In other words, the "mixed taste", for which the best German composers of the late baroque period were famous, in it's finest form. Little wonder then that Bernhard Bach's suites became core repertoire for Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig Collegium Musicum, also influencing his compositions. All this provides sufficient motivation for the Thuringian Bach Collegium to continue their exploration through the Middle German courts for their second recording and, with unbridled enthusiasm in their music-making, to bring these jewels of the early Thuringian orchestral music back to life. Bon Appetit!

Tracklist:

  1. Orchestral Suite No. 1: I. Ouverture
  2. Orchestral Suite No. 1: II. Air
  3. Orchestral Suite No. 1: III. Rondeau
  4. Orchestral Suite No. 1: IV. Loure
  5. Orchestral Suite No. 1: V. Fantaisie
  6. Orchestral Suite No. 1: VI. Passepied
  7. Orchestral Suite No. 2: I. Ouverture
  8. Orchestral Suite No. 2: II. Gavotte En Rondeau
  9. Orchestral Suite No. 2: III. Sarabande
  10. Orchestral Suite No. 2: IV. Bourrée: Gayement
  11. Orchestral Suite No. 2: V. Air: Grave
  12. Orchestral Suite No. 2: VI. Menuett
  13. Orchestral Suite No. 2: VII. Gigue
  14. Il Zelo Di Leonata: Ouverture (Used 1730 By Johann Sebastian Bach In A Performance With His Collegium Musicum As Final Movement
  15. Orchestral Suite No. 3: I. Ouverture
  16. Orchestral Suite No. 3: II. Air
  17. Orchestral Suite No. 3: III. Les Plaisirs
  18. Orchestral Suite No. 3: IV. Menuet I - Menuet II - Menuet I
  19. Orchestral Suite No. 3: V. Air
  20. Orchestral Suite No. 3: VI. Rigadon
  21. Orchestral Suite No. 3: VII. Courante
  22. Orchestral Suite No. 3: VIII. Gavotte En Rondeaux
  23. Orchestral Suite No. 4: I. Ouverture
  24. Orchestral Suite No. 4: II. Caprice I
  25. Orchestral Suite No. 4: III. Marche
  26. Orchestral Suite No. 4: IV. Passepied I - Passepied II - Passepied I
  27. Orchestral Suite No. 4: V. Caprice II
  28. Orchestral Suite No. 4: VI. Air: Lentement
  29. Orchestral Suite No. 4: VII. La Joye
  30. Orchestral Suite No. 4: VIII. Caprice III

UPC > 4022143977700

Format > New CD

Label > Audite

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