Johann S/Bernhard/Ludwig Bach: Ouvertures For Orchestra

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Alessandrini’s new recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites may well be the danciest ever...he has turned to these four noble creations and infused them with a choreographic shape and swing that... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

Release Date: 8th Nov 2019
Catalogue No: OP30578
Label: Naive
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

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For several decades, as solo harpsichordist and director of his ensemble Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini has been exploring not just the Italian repertoire that he is so passionate about but also the works of Bach - as in his benchmark recording of the Brandenburg Concertos in 2005. In this new recording, Alessandrini has mounted a challenge to all currently available recordings of those four Orchestral Suites that Bach called ‘Overtures’, after their imposing opening movements. It’s uncertain when these dance suites were composed or where they were first performed but they were certainly played in Leipzig at the time Bach was directing its celebrated Collegium Musicum.

Here Alessandrini has once again sifted all available sources, putting the composer’s entire output under the microscope to identify the most authentic details of style and orchestration. The result is a subtle balance between Bach’s intricate contrapuntal writing and the spontaneity of his dances, with their French and Italian influences. Together with these majestic, festive, radiant works by JS Bach, Concerto Italiano presents two Overtures in the same instrumental mould by Johann Bernhard and Johann Ludwig Bach - two composer cousins with whom Johann Sebastian enjoyed lifelong ties of mutual friendship and esteem. During his Leipzig years he had their Overtures copied out, so he could perform them with the Collegium Musicum. Here then is a welcome opportunity to hear these two superb orchestral pieces in the contemporary context of Bach’s own music.

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December 2019

Alessandrini’s new recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites may well be the danciest ever...he has turned to these four noble creations and infused them with a choreographic shape and swing that ought to make it hard for listeners to keep still...Alessandrini shows that he has no auto-pilot for these pieces, only lively ideas in plenty.

Johann S/Bernhard/Ludwig Bach: Ouvertures For Orchestra

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