Prinz Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar: Concerti Thüringer Bach Collegium

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Album-Release:
2019

HRA-Release:
08.07.2019

Label: audite Musikproduktion

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

Artist: Thüringer Bach Collegium

Composer: Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar (1696-1715)

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  • Prinz Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar (1696 - 1715): Violin Concerto No. 3 in E Minor:
  • 1Violin Concerto No. 3 in E Minor: I. Vivace01:54
  • 2Violin Concerto No. 3 in E Minor: II. Pastorella02:42
  • 3Violin Concerto No. 3 in E Minor: III. Presto01:09
  • Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Minor:
  • 4Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Minor: I. Adagio - Presto01:43
  • 5Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Minor: II. Allegro - Adagio01:56
  • 6Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Minor: III. Vivace01:10
  • Violin Concerto No. 7 in G Major:
  • 7Violin Concerto No. 7 in G Major: I. Allegro assai02:25
  • 8Violin Concerto No. 7 in G Major: II. Adagio02:13
  • 9Violin Concerto No. 7 in G Major: III. Presto e staccato01:10
  • Violin Concerto No. 5 in E Major:
  • 10Violin Concerto No. 5 in E Major: I. —02:10
  • 11Violin Concerto No. 5 in E Major: II. Siciliana01:55
  • 12Violin Concerto No. 5 in E Major: III. Allegro02:16
  • Concerto in C Major (after Prince Johann Ernst IV of Sachsen-Weimar), BWV 984:
  • 13Concerto in C Major, BWV 984: I. —02:58
  • 14Concerto in C Major, BWV 984: II. Adagio e affettuoso02:13
  • 15Concerto in C Major, BWV 984: III. Allegro assai02:29
  • Violin Concerto No. 8 in G Major:
  • 16Violin Concerto No. 8 in G Major: I. Adagio01:25
  • 17Violin Concerto No. 8 in G Major: II. Allegro01:59
  • 18Violin Concerto No. 8 in G Major: III. Adagio01:12
  • 19Violin Concerto No. 8 in G Major: IV. Allegro02:01
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major:
  • 20Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major: I. Allegro01:49
  • 21Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major: II. Adagio - Allegro03:04
  • 22Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major: III. Un poco presto01:41
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in A Minor:
  • 23Violin Concerto No. 2 in A Minor: I. Allegro02:11
  • 24Violin Concerto No. 2 in A Minor: II. Largo04:56
  • 25Violin Concerto No. 2 in A Minor: III. Andante02:24
  • Violin Concerto No. 6 in G Minor:
  • 26Violin Concerto No. 6 in G Minor: I. Vivace02:35
  • 27Violin Concerto No. 6 in G Minor: II. Recitativo01:32
  • 28Violin Concerto No. 6 in G Minor: III. Allegro03:02
  • Sonata for Trumpet in D Major:
  • 29Sonata for Trumpet in D Major: I. Vivace00:52
  • 30Sonata for Trumpet in D Major: II. Largo01:20
  • 31Sonata for Trumpet in D Major: III. Allegro01:10
  • Total Runtime01:03:36

Info for Prinz Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar: Concerti



The violin concertos of the Prince Johann Ernst IV of Sachsen-Weimar: This release is the debut recording of the Thüringer Bach Collegium and marks the beginning of its co-operation with audite. A second album (works by Johann Bernhard Bach) will be released in autumn 2019 and further projects are being planned.

Prince Johann Ernst IV of Sachsen-Weimar (1696-1715) was taught by Johann Gottfried Walther; Johann Sebastian Bach also perused the young prince's compositions and arranged some of Johann Ernst's concertos for keyboard instruments for his own use. Georg Philipp Telemann put the finishing touches to the violin concertos. The results are unmistakeably Italianate: at times brilliantly virtuosic, at other times contemplative and lyrical - composed by the 'Thuringian Vivaldi' who died far too early.

The Thüringer Bach Collegium, directed by Gernot Süßmuth, have recorded the six violin concertos by Prince Johann Ernst - as posthumously published in 1718 by Telemann - with exuberant enthusiasm. These works are combined with two further concertos whose original Weimar court orchestra parts survived: a concerto for trumpet and orchestra as well as a concerto for two violins which survived as an adaptation by JS Bach and was "arranged back".

This pioneering recording revives a central chapter of Weimar's musical history, in which the works of the court composer Johann Sebastian Bach also had their place. The prince's concertos were written at the same time as Bach's Weimar cantatas and provide, as no other body of works, the "soundtrack" to the dynamic musical life in the palace. The musical perspective was a European one: in 1713 a veritable "Vivaldimania" broke out, the Venetian composer's works being arranged, imitated and emulated. This can be experienced in the prince's concertos, written in the finest Vivaldian style.

Rupprecht Drees, trumpet
Thüringer Bach Collegium
Gernot Süßmuth, violin, direction

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