This release is the debut recording of the Thuringer Bach Collegium and marks the beginning of it's co-operation with audite. 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 unmistakably Italianate: at times brilliantly virtuosic, at other times contemplative and lyrical - composed by the 'Thuringian Vivaldi' who died far too early. The Thuringer Bach Collegium, directed by Gernot SuÃŸmuth, 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.

Tracklist:

Violin Concerto No. 3 In E Minor: I. Vivace
Violin Concerto No. 3 In E Minor: II. Pastorella
Violin Concerto No. 3 In E Minor: III. Presto
Violin Concerto No. 4 In D Minor: I. Adagio - Presto
Violin Concerto No. 4 In D Minor: II. Allegro - Adagio
Violin Concerto No. 4 In D Minor: III. Vivace
Violin Concerto No. 7 In G Major: I. Allegro Assai
Violin Concerto No. 7 In G Major: II. Adagio
Violin Concerto No. 7 In G Major: III. Presto E Staccato
Violin Concerto No. 5 In E Major: I. -
Violin Concerto No. 5 In E Major: II. Siciliana
Violin Concerto No. 5 In E Major: III. Allegro
Concerto In C Major (After Prince Johann Ernst IV Of Sachsen-Weimar), Bwv 984: I. - [Reconstructed As Double Concerto For 2 Viol
Concerto In C Major (After Prince Johann Ernst IV Of Sachsen-Weimar), Bwv 984: II. Adagio E Affettuoso [Reconstructed As Double
Concerto In C Major (After Prince Johann Ernst IV Of Sachsen-Weimar), Bwv 984: III. Allegro Assai [Reconstructed As Double Conce
Violin Concerto No. 8 In G Major: I. Adagio
Violin Concerto No. 8 In G Major: II. Allegro
Violin Concerto No. 8 In G Major: III. Adagio
Violin Concerto No. 8 In G Major: IV. Allegro
Violin Concerto No. 1 In B-Flat Major: I. Allegro
Violin Concerto No. 1 In B-Flat Major: II. Adagio - Allegro
Violin Concerto No. 1 In B-Flat Major: III. Un Poco Presto
Violin Concerto No. 2 In A Minor: I. Allegro
Violin Concerto No. 2 In A Minor: II. Largo
Violin Concerto No. 2 In A Minor: III. Andante
Violin Concerto No. 6 In G Minor: I. Vivace
Violin Concerto No. 6 In G Minor: II. Recitativo
Violin Concerto No. 6 In G Minor: III. Allegro
Sonata For Trumpet In D Major: I. Vivace
Sonata For Trumpet In D Major: II. Largo
Sonata For Trumpet In D Major: III. Allegro

UPC: 4022143977694
Label: Audite
Release Date: 7.5.19
Format: CD

Ernst - Concerti (CD)