Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Bertali, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Arcangelo Corelli, Johann Georg Pisendel
Performer: Nadja Zwiener, Johannes Lang
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ramée
Catalogue: RAM2202
Release: 2023
Size: 2.48 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Bach: Violin Sonata in G major, BWV1021
01. I. Adagio
02. II. Vivace
03. III. Largo
04. IV. Presto
05. Biber: Violin Sonata No. 5 in E minor
Corelli: Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 6 in A major
06. I. Grave
07. II. Allegro
08. III. Allegro
09. IV. Adagio
10. V. Allegro
Bach: Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV1023
11. I. [–]
12. II. Adagio ma non tanto
13. III. Allemanda
14. IV. Gigue
Bach: Prelude, Largo and Fugue in C Major BWV 545 / 529
15. I. Prelude in C major, BWV545
16. II. Largo (Arr. for Violin and Organ by Johannes Lang)
17. III. Fuga
Pisendel: Violin Sonata in E minor
18. I. Largo
19. II. Moderato
20. III. Scherzando
21. Bertali: Ciaccona in C Major
Johann Sebastian Bach, the newly appointed Cantor of the Thomaskirche, undertook his first official journey from Leipzig to nearby Störmthal in 1723, where he and his Thomanerchor inaugurated the beautiful new organ built by Zacharias Hildebrandt, a pupil of Silbermann. Bach was thrilled by the instrument’s splendid timbres and tonal beauty. A particularly beautiful violin was made by the German luthier David Tecchler in Rome — 1400 km from Störmthal — during that same year. Both instruments have survived and have been excellently restored; now, three hundred years after their creation, they meet for the first time. Nadja Zwiener, leader of The English Concert and Johannes Lang, the current organist of the Thomaskirche here celebrate the 300th anniversary of these two instruments and Bach’s investiture in Leipzig with a florilegium of works by Bach himself, his contemporaries and his predecessors. A splendidly colourful musical firework!