Bach: Concertos for Recorder, Vol. 2 / Bosgraaf

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
October 28, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Sebastian Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Erik Bosgraaf, Collegium Musicum Riga, Agnese Kannina, Maris Kupcs
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 28, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421963945
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96394
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Erik Bosgraaf

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    2. II. Adagio assai

      Composer: Erik Bosgraaf

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    3. III. Allegro

      Composer: Erik Bosgraaf

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    4. Aria in G Major (after J.S. Bach's BWV 120 and 1019a)

      Composer: Erik Bosgraaf

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    5. Kommt, eilet und laufet, BWV 249, "Easter Oratorio": Sinfonia (arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and orchestra)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    6. I. Allegro

      Composer: Erik Bosgraaf

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    7. II. Siciliano

      Composer: Erik Bosgraaf

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    8. III. Allegro

      Composer: Erik Bosgraaf

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    9. Ich hatte viel Bekummernis, BWV 21: Sinfonia (arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and orchestra)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    10. I. Allemande

      Composer: Thiemo Wind

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf

    11. II. Courante

      Composer: Thiemo Wind

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf

    12. III. Sarabande

      Composer: Thiemo Wind

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf

    13. IV. Bourrée

      Composer: Thiemo Wind

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf

    14. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    15. II. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    16. III. Allegro assai

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    17. Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, Versus 1: Christ lag in Todes Banden (arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and orchestra)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    18. Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29: Sinfonia (arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and orchestra)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf

    19. Das Orgelbüchlein, BWV 599-644: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross, BWV 622 (arr. E. Bosgraaf for recorder and orchestra)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Collegium Musicum Riga

      Performer: Erik Bosgraaf, Agnese Kannina-Liepina, Māris Kupčs

      Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf


With a catalogue of acclaimed albums for Brilliant Classics stretching well into double figures, the Dutch recorder virtuoso Erik Bosgraaf goes back to Bach for his latest release, with an album of arrangements as imaginatively conceived and as stylishly executed as Volume 1 (94296), released in 2011, which won glowing reviews from the international music press. Bach wrote as inventively and idiomatically for the recorder throughout his career as he did for every other instrument at his disposal, but he left no concertos in which the instrument takes the spotlight.

Thus Bosgraaf and his colleagues have attempted to answer the question, what might Bach have done, or could he have done, if he had written concertos for the recorder? They have looked for inspiration to the cantatas, and not only those where Bach composed memorable recorder parts such as the Actus Tragicus. For example, the album’s opening G major concerto is compiled from a tenor aria of dazzling runs in BWV74, followed by the sorrowful opening Sinfonia of BWV12 (in which the oboe originally takes the starring role), and then another tenor aria from BWV81 which graphically illustrates the foaming waves of a stormy sea. In both aria transcriptions, Bosgraaf’s recorder takes over the vocal line, and paints vivid sound pictures with his remarkable palette of tone colors. A second concerto in D major draws its music from similar sources, followed by a Partita which the Dutch musicologist has arranged from movements of the Fifth French Suite. A further concerto is supplied by a relatively ‘straight’ transcription of the familiar (but sublime) A minor Concerto for violin, BWV1041.