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Artists : Loris Barrucand and Clément Geoffroy, harpsichord
Program : Johann Sebastian bach concerti BWV 593, 1060 et 596, “Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland”, BWV 659, “Wachet auf, ruft uns due Stimme”, BWV 140, Sonatina from Actus Tragicus BWV 106, Pedal-Exercitium, BWV 598, Passacaglia, BWV 582
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Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto BWV 1060 - Allegro |
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Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto BWV 596 - Largo espiccato |
Press round up :
"So this disc is to be welcomed, not only for its musicianship, but for its reminder of the extraordinary multi-layered sound world in which Bach composed, adapted and re-purposed his music." David Stancliffe - early music review
"Una gioiosa libertà anima questa musica a cui danno voce gli splendidi strumenti di Émile Jobin et Jean-François Chaudeurge, come in un sogno ombreggiato dai tigli del Caffè Zimmermann." Ferruccio Nuzzo - Grey Panthers
Overview :
“Tomorrow, Wednesday 17th June [1733], Bach’s Collegium Musicum will be resuming its activities in the garden at Zimmermann’s. [...] there will be a harpsichord of a kind that has never been heard here before; music lovers and virtuosos will have the pleasure of meeting one another there.”
Although we shall probably never know what this amazing harpsichord was like, we can imagine it being played by Bach, one of his sons, Carl Philipp, Wilhelm Friedemann, or a talented pupil such as Johann Ludwig Krebs. It was actually at this time that Johann Sebastian Bach’s harpsichord concertos were composed, and three concertos for two harpsichords, two concertos for three harpsichords and one concerto for four harpsichords have come down to us through the ages, giving some idea of what an incredible craze for the instrument there must have been! All of these works are highly atypical for the period, or even the only ones of their kind. It seems likely that they made a real impression on both listeners and performers given that all of Bach’s sons - and a number of his pupils - went on to compose for two harpsichords, making them the most prolific of all musical dynasties in this field.
Although we can see that concerts with three or four harpsichords must have been fairly unusual, it is hard to believe that they managed to get through more than six hundred concerts by performing just three works for two harpsichords! So what might the audience at the Grimma Gate or in the Katharinenstrasse have heard being performed?
The aim of this programme was to try to come up with an answer.
Clément Geoffroy
