JS Bach: Concertos for Organ and Strings

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Bach may actually have known the Thomas Organ in the Church of Our Lady and St Leodagar, Bornem and Jacobs makes full use of its transmissions, letting loose his creativity and flair for colour... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Feb 2019
Catalogue No: RAM1804
Label: Ramée
Length: 79 minutes

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Bach, J S: Concerto in D Major After BWV 169 and BWV 49

Work length19:25

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Bart Jacobs, Les Muffatti

I. (Allegro)

Track length7:52

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II. Siciliano

Track length5:03

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III. Allegro

Track length6:30

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Bach, J S: Concerto in D minor for organ, oboes, strings and continuo from BWV 1052, 146 & 188

Work length22:08

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Bart Jacobs, Les Muffatti

I. (Allegro)

Track length7:49

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II. Adagio

Track length6:13

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III. Allegro

Track length8:06

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV156 'Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe': I. Sinfonia

Work length2:39

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Bart Jacobs, Les Muffatti

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV75 'Die Elenden sollen essen': Sinfonia

Work length2:25

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Bart Jacobs, Les Muffatti

Bach, J S: Sinfonia in D Major After BWV 120a and BWV 29

Work length3:41

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Bart Jacobs, Les Muffatti

Bach, J S: Concerto in D Minor After BWV 35 and BWV 1055

Work length15:17

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Bart Jacobs, Les Muffatti

I. Allegro

Track length5:51

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II. Larghetto

Track length5:42

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III. Presto

Track length3:44

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Bach, J S: Concerto in G Minor After BWV 1041 and BWV 1058

Work length14:13

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Bart Jacobs, Les Muffatti

I. Allegro

Track length3:55

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II. Andante

Track length6:33

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III. Allegro assai

Track length3:45

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Although we know of at least five concertos J.S. Bach wrote for solo organ we have no surviving Bach organ concertos with orchestral accompaniment. Contrast this with the 200+ cantatas: of these, 18 feature organ obbligato, which Bach uses as a solo instrument in arias, choral sections and sinfonias. The most obviously conspicuous date to 1726. In May to November of that year, Bach composed six cantatas which assign a prominent solo role to the organ. Most of these are reworkings of movements of lost violin and oboe concertos written in Bach’s time at Weimar and Köthen. Why Bach wrote such a number of obbligato organ cantatas in such a short period remains unknown. One possible explanation may lie in Dresden, where Bach had given a concert on the new Silbermann organ in the Sophienkirche in 1725. Some scholars think that, in addition to other organ works, he also performed organ concertos, or at least a few earlier versions of the sinfonias, with obbligato organ and strings in order to show off the organ. From the cantatas mentioned above, along with the related violin and harpsichord concertos, it is perfectly possible to reconstruct a number of three-movement organ concertos of this type. By using this method, we hope to bring some of the music which Bach may have performed in Dresden in 1725 back to life on this CD.

Reviews

May 2019

Bach may actually have known the Thomas Organ in the Church of Our Lady and St Leodagar, Bornem and Jacobs makes full use of its transmissions, letting loose his creativity and flair for colour across an array of stop combinations…If I yearned for greater whimsy, dynamic, or rhetorical variation from the strings, especially in robust ritornellos, these are certainly energetic and precise performances.

July 2019

Once over the shock of hearing familiar music in very different circumstances, the performances are thoroughly enjoyable and rather convincing. There is rarely a bar’s rest in Jacobs’s organ parts, yet he deftly guides us through some of Bach’s finest moments, ably propelled by intelligent and energetic playing from Les Muffatti.

3rd March 2019

These performances are irresistible, the silvery sounds of the solo instrument delighting the ear, the strings thrilling and warm-toned.

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