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Here's one of those discs that throws multiple innovations at the listener, any one of which alone might have made sense but which are a bit overwhelming taken together. You may be puzzled to see four Bach violin concertos listed; what's happening is that two of them, BWV 1052 and BWV 1056, were transcribed from harpsichord concertos on the theory that Bach himself made similar transcriptions in the opposite direction. Tempos are quick, with a nervous, slightly pace-bending energy at odds with the usual tempo stability of Baroque instrumental music. Finally, the "orchestral" passages are taken with one instrument per part, in keeping with an approach more often heard in Bach's choral music (where the chorus consists of single voices) but sometimes mooted for concertos as well. This last decision seems especially debateable in music modeled on the concertos of Vivaldi, which were, on the testimony of none less than Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composed to be played by an orchestra of young women. If you grant that the experiment is worth trying, you may still find that it works markedly better in the two actual violin concertos than in the two transcriptions. Despite all of the booklet's claims for the violinistic quality of the melodies of the two harpsichord concertos, the music turns into a shapeless mess here. Violinist Amandine Beyer and the ensemble Gli Incogniti assert the novel approach that the polyphonic element in Bach's concertos ruled over the spectacular soloistic concept of the Italian style, and they reduce the emphasis on the solo part accordingly. It's an odd way to play these pieces, but competently and briskly executed, and the engineering from the new Zig Zag imprint of Harmonia Mundi is sharp. In all, though, anyone considering this disc should sample and compare extensively; the minority of listeners who are thoroughly experiment-minded are most likely to enjoy it.
© TiVo
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Concerto for Violin No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
Concerto for Violin No. 5 in G Minor, BWV 1056 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
Concerto for Violin No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
Concerto for Violin No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
Gli Incogniti, Performer - Amandine BEYER, Performer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
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Here's one of those discs that throws multiple innovations at the listener, any one of which alone might have made sense but which are a bit overwhelming taken together. You may be puzzled to see four Bach violin concertos listed; what's happening is that two of them, BWV 1052 and BWV 1056, were transcribed from harpsichord concertos on the theory that Bach himself made similar transcriptions in the opposite direction. Tempos are quick, with a nervous, slightly pace-bending energy at odds with the usual tempo stability of Baroque instrumental music. Finally, the "orchestral" passages are taken with one instrument per part, in keeping with an approach more often heard in Bach's choral music (where the chorus consists of single voices) but sometimes mooted for concertos as well. This last decision seems especially debateable in music modeled on the concertos of Vivaldi, which were, on the testimony of none less than Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composed to be played by an orchestra of young women. If you grant that the experiment is worth trying, you may still find that it works markedly better in the two actual violin concertos than in the two transcriptions. Despite all of the booklet's claims for the violinistic quality of the melodies of the two harpsichord concertos, the music turns into a shapeless mess here. Violinist Amandine Beyer and the ensemble Gli Incogniti assert the novel approach that the polyphonic element in Bach's concertos ruled over the spectacular soloistic concept of the Italian style, and they reduce the emphasis on the solo part accordingly. It's an odd way to play these pieces, but competently and briskly executed, and the engineering from the new Zig Zag imprint of Harmonia Mundi is sharp. In all, though, anyone considering this disc should sample and compare extensively; the minority of listeners who are thoroughly experiment-minded are most likely to enjoy it.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:59
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Gli Incogniti Amandine Beyer
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Label: Zig-Zag Territoires
- Genre: Klassiek
2007 Zig-Zag Territoires 2007 Zig-Zag Territoires
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