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Dorothee Oberlinger has chosen a congenial partner with the lutenist Edin Karamazov for her new album with music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Karamazov became world famous and known to a wide audience through his album with the pop singer Sting, and on the new album he can also prove his talent as an arranger. Because for the album he and Oberlinger rewrote works by Bach for recorder and lute.

En 1994, dans le cadre de son contrat Sony, Cyprien Katsaris se rendait à Hamburg, dans la belle acoustique de la Friedrich-Ebert Halle, pour enregistrer plusieurs œuvres de J. S. Bach où se dévoile l’empreinte, forte, de la musique italienne de la fin du XVIIe et du début du XVIIIe, et ses violons concertants flamboyants et virtuoses. Sony avait publié une partie des œuvres enregistrées, en 1995, au sein du récital « Italy in Bach ». En regroupant aujourd’hui ces gravures Sony restantes, inédites, avec une autre partie de session également non publiée à ce jour, réalisée en 2000 au studio Van Geest – et complétant ainsi le « Bach Recital » paru sur Piano 21 en 2009 (P007) – Cyprien Katsaris nous offre une belle sélection d'oeuvres qu'il aime de l’auteur des Concertos brandebourgeois, des plus réjouissantes.

With this volume 4 in a complete recording of Bach’s keyboard works whose ingenuity has been underlined by every reviewer, Benjamin Alard continues to explore the Weimar period, known as that of his ‘early mastery’. After “à la française”, we turn to Italy, where the Vivaldian concerto reigned in Venice. The young Bach created here a wonderful space of freedom between the transcriber and the improviser. For ‘if transcription is a matter of freedom, it is also a matter of powerful imagination: each piece on this recording transports us into a Venetian universe that fascinated Bach as much as it inspired him’, as Benjamin Alard demonstrates on three exceptional instruments.

Throughout his entire life, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great number of arrangements, transcriptions, and “parodies”. Baroque violinist Annegret Siedel and the organist Ute-Gremmel Geuchen are experimenting this field with great joy in playing a varied spectrum of Bach's compositions on violin and organ, violon solo, or organ solo.

Johann Sebastian Bach hat leider kein Trompetenkonzert hinterlassen, von dem wir heutzutage wissen. Der Trompeter Matthias Höfs hat Abhilfe geschaffen und eine Reihe Bach’scher Solokonzerte für sein Instrument arrangiert. Mit seiner modernen Piccolotrompete ist es ihm – anders als mit der ventillosen Barocktrompete – möglich, den brillanten Klang der Trompete in den anspruchsvollen Melodien der Konzerte zum Strahlen zu bringen.Matthias Höfs versetzt damit ein Instrument, dessen Klang Bach seinerzeit schon bekannt gewesen ist, in das Hier und Jetzt. Die berühmten Melodien der Bach’schen Solokonzerte glänzen so auf ganz besondere Art und Weise, wie man sie noch nie gehört hat. »Es war ja damals schon üblich, ein Stück für das eigene Instrument anzupassen.« Zusammen mit der Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie Bremen hat er so ein Album geschaffen, das eine lange Tradition fortsetzt. Darüber hinaus zeigt er wieder einmal, wozu ein bekannt geglaubtes Instrument an Wandlungsfähigkeit und Farbgebung noch im Stande ist.

For his new Deutsche Grammophon album, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson explores the wellspring of Johann Sebastian Bach’s keyboard music, delivering experimental, innovative and timeless performances: Víkingur Ólafsson is a musical free spirit with a mission. He first made the classical world sit up and listen in early 2017 with his recording of solo piano works by Philip Glass – a fascinating journey through the time and space of their minimalist structures. Glass is now followed by Bach. Set for release in September, Ólafsson’s second Deutsche Grammophon album, the pithily entitled Bach, contains a mixture of original works and transcriptions, which the pianist has woven together in intriguing style.

Dorothee Oberlinger hat sich für ihr neues Album mit Musik von Johann Sebastian Bach mit dem Lautenisten Edin Karamazov einen kongenialen Partner ausgesucht. Weltberühmt und einem breiten Publikum bekannt wurde Karamazov durch sein Album mit dem Pop-Sänger Sting, und auf der neuen CD kann er auch sein Talent als Bearbeiter unter Beweis stellen. Denn für das Album hat er zusammen mit Oberlinger Werke von Bach umgeschrieben für Blockflöte und Laute: Eingeleitet wird das Album »Dialoge« mit dem Choralvorspiel »Nun kommt der Heiden Heiland« BWV 659, hier zu hören – und nicht minder zu Herzen gehend als das Original – eben mit Blockflöte und Laute.

Mstislav Rostropovich One of the great cellists as well as one of the leading conductors of the 20th century, Mstislav Rostropovich's passionate and virtuosic performance style sometimes seemed to reflect the turbulent events in his life, including his exile from his native Soviet Union. In addition to his ability to project with notable fullness in all registers of his instrument, he had complete command of the styles of all the musical eras and national schools in the standard cello repertoire of the time. A strong supporter of new works, he premiered over 100 pieces as a performer, including Sergey Prokofiev's Cello Sonata in C, Op. 119 in 1950, which was composed for him. In 1959 and 1966, respectively, Dmitry Shostakovich's first and second cello concertos were written for and premiered by the esteemed cellist. In the meantime, he made his conducting debut in Gorky in 1962, and five years later, he made his Bolshoi premiere conducting Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. In 1970, Rostropovich's open letter in support of dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn led to canceled concerts and, eventually, his exile from the Soviet Union.

Mstislav Rostropovich One of the great cellists as well as one of the leading conductors of the 20th century, Mstislav Rostropovich's passionate and virtuosic performance style sometimes seemed to reflect the turbulent events in his life, including his exile from his native Soviet Union. In addition to his ability to project with notable fullness in all registers of his instrument, he had complete command of the styles of all the musical eras and national schools in the standard cello repertoire of the time. A strong supporter of new works, he premiered over 100 pieces as a performer, including Sergey Prokofiev's Cello Sonata in C, Op. 119 in 1950, which was composed for him. In 1959 and 1966, respectively, Dmitry Shostakovich's first and second cello concertos were written for and premiered by the esteemed cellist. In the meantime, he made his conducting debut in Gorky in 1962, and five years later, he made his Bolshoi premiere conducting Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. In 1970, Rostropovich's open letter in support of dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn led to canceled concerts and, eventually, his exile from the Soviet Union.

Above the album worked the 'Bach: L'Extase Musicale ', and his release took place on 2021. The album has got songs with a total duration of more than an hour. A compilation is a compilation of original music.