Bach: Overtures, BWV 1066-1069 / Mortensen, Concerto Copenhagen

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Label
CPO
Release Date
August 13, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, J.S.
    • PERFORMER
      Concerto Copenhagen, Mortensen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 13, 2021
    • UPC
      761203534623
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555346-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Overture

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    2. II. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    3. III. Gavotte I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    4. IV. Forlane

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    5. V. Menuet I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    6. VI. Bourrée I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    7. VII. Passepied I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    8. I. Ouverture

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    9. II. Rondeau

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    10. III. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    11. IV. Bourrée I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    12. V. Polonaise - Double

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    13. VI. Menuet

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    14. VII. Badinerie

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    15. I. Ouverture

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    16. II. Air, "Air on the G String"

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    17. III. Gavotte I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    18. IV. Bourrée -

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    19. V. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    20. I. Overture

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    21. II. Bourrée I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    22. III. Gavotte

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    23. IV. Menuet I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen

    24. V. Réjouissance

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen

      Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen


Concerto Copenhagen, the Danish National Baroque Orchestra, has developed into one of Scandinavia’s leading Baroque orchestras and has earned its place in the front ranks of the world’s most fascinating and innovative orchestras of this kind. The orchestra now turns to Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous Orchestral Suites. Although extensive research has been conducted for many years, it is not known when the suites were composed. Today everything indicates that the suites were written much earlier than is assumed and then merely had to be adapted to Bach’s new Leipzig circumstances. It is therefore not unusual for them to be performed – as on this recording – without timpani and trumpets. Although the especially popular third suite is a ceremonious, sumptuous work, the material contributed by the wind instruments is hardly of considerable significance. The suite enjoys a top ranking on the charts of Bach’s most attractive and best-loved works. Some of his most popular melodies can be found in their movements. Suite No. 2 in B minor ends with the immensely famous flute solo of the Badinerie (a “joke” comparable to the Italian “scherzo”) frequently employed on television as a signature tune. Here the Johann Sebastian Bach we encounter is not the one who quests for deep spiritual knowledge or probes hidden aspects of the human soul. On the other hand, he rarely wrote mellower, more uplifting melodies or simpler, more elegantly designed dance rhythms than in these twenty-four movements brimming with magical variations, atmosphere, and rich color.