Bach: "More Bach, please!"

Alessandrini, Rinaldo, Concerto Italiano

OP 8454

Premiera 2024-10-11In addition to the French-style Overture BWV 831 arranged for two oboes, bassoon, strings and basso continuo (in Bach's original for harpsichord), two suites based on keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach are performed by harpsichordist and conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini. The musicians of the Concerto Italiano give a very lively and sensitive performance. And the same applies here: whether original works, transcriptions or arrangements, whether from the time of the cantor or later, whether by Bach or others: It doesn't matter. All roads lead to Bach, to his essence.

All good things come in threes - this also applies to a special series by Rinaldo Alessandrini on naive: first there was the concerto in the Italian style, BWV 971, rearranged according to the then modern disposition represented in Italy at the beginning of the 18th century (anthology "Concerti italiani", 2004). More recently, the Goldberg Variations, newly conceived for a small string ensemble, crowned a fabulous apotheosis in the land of variations ("Variations on Variations", 2017).

Now it's three completely original orchestral suites by Bach, created by a tongue-in-cheek Rinaldo Alessandrini, together with his Concerto Italiano. Partly guided by pragmatism, Bach regularly transcribed and recycled his own music. His numerous commitments in Leipzig in the 1720s and 1730s often forced him to consult the old in order to imagine the new, and he then made profound changes that were fixed in the course of a complex transcription. The French Overture (Clavier-Übung II), for example, could be imagined in its original form as a transcription of one or more orchestral works for harpsichord. In the end, however, one thing is certain: whether original works, transcriptions or arrangements, whether from the time of the cantor or later, whether by Bach or his successors: for Rinaldo Alessandrini it makes no difference. All roads lead to Bach, to his essence.

Works:

•Bach: Ouvertüre nach französischer Art in h-Moll, BWV831 (aus der Clavier-Übung II – 1735, transcribed for two oboes, bassoon, strings and basso continuo in D minor by Rinaldo Alessandrini)
• Bach: Partita für Traversflöte, Streicher und Basso continuo in D-Dur
• Ouvertüre für Streicher und Basso continuo in G-Dur
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CD x 1

Naive

8/26/24

3700187684549