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AJ 0832
Bach: Ouvertures-Suites
Label Catalogue Number:
ALPHA832
ALPHA832
Running Time: 77:20
Release Date: June 2022
Originally recorded in 2021
Originally recorded in 2021
Genre:
Classical
Classical
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About
The orchestral suite, sometimes simply called ‘overture’ because of the imposing dimensions of its opening movement, enjoyed great popularity in the early eighteenth century, especially in central Germany. Bach had discovered the genre in his youth and cultivated it until his late period in Leipzig. This recording assembles his four overture-suites, including the famous Suite no.2 BWV 1067, which belongs among the late works. Numerous copying errors in the instrumental parts suggest that this piece was originally written a tone lower – in A minor – and therefore probably for a solo instrument other than the transverse flute: in the present recording, this first version, reconstructed from the clues mentioned above, is performed with solo oboe.
‘This is a work of austere beauty, in which contrapuntal skill and melancholic expression are combined in a highly original way with the carefully calculated dance rhythms’, writes Peter Wollny in the accompanying booklet article.
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Reviews
“…I really like the spirited performances here. The tempos are brisk and the articulation of strings and winds is crisp. I particularly enjoy listening to the continuo. The sound is vigorous; and the definition in Julien Debordes’s bassoon playing is remarkable…”
Peter Loewen – American Record Guide – November/December 2022
**** Excellent Album
Philippe Venturini – Classica magazine (France) – September 2022
Performance **** Recording ****
“… these performances are both vibrant and instrumentally and wonderfully responsive, as is clearly evident at the start of the first Overture… The instrumental contribution is delightful throughout with plenty of ear-catching detail, notably Julien Debordes’s superb bassoon playing. Matthew Loux, the oboe soloist - … in the second Overture, is also magnificent; his subtly unequal phrasing in the ‘Bardinerie’ is a rare delight.”
Jan Smaczny – BBC Music magazine – September 2022
“…Excellent performances and initiative, but as a supplement to, rather than replacement of, Bach’s revisions.”
Michael Greenhalgh – MusicWeb-International.com – 27 July 2022
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