Bach In Berlin by Jed Wentz / Musica Ad Rhenum

Johann Sebastian Bach

Jed Wentz / Musica Ad Rhenum

Bach In Berlin

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917207620
Catnr: CC 72076
Release date: 01 January 1996
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Label
Challenge Classics

UPC
0608917207620

Catalogue number
CC 72076

Release date
01 January 1996

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About the album

Flute music for Frederick the Great performed on period instruments

The court of Frederick the Great in Berlin was one of the major centres of enlightened musical taste in Europe. At court it was the king’s flute and Italian opera that were in the spotlight, and much like all other issues of courtly life Frederick set the tone in musical matters.

Frederick was able to push through his own individual taste. The chief aim of this style was to achieve le chant noble (noble chanting). This particular style dominated both operatic music and instrumental music performed at court, to which some of the major composers of the mid-eighteenth century contributed: the Graun and Benda brothers, Quantz, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Janitsch and Agricola. On this recording Musica Ad Rhenum performs flute music by some of these composers, written for Frederick the Great.

Musica Ad Rhenum was founded in 1991 by a group of enthusiastic young musicians specialized in the performance of 17th- and 18th-century music on period instruments. The group’s name reflects the determination of its members to combine the latest musicological research and playing styles associated with the Rhenish cities Basel and Cologne with their own vision of authentic Baroque performance practice. The emsemble’s emphasis on musicological research, however, does not exclude the element of personal expression from their playing style.

Fluitmuziek voor Frederik de Grote, uitgevoerd op historische instrumenten
Het hof van Frederik de Grote was een van de belangrijkste Europese centra van de verlichte muzikale smaak. Aan het hof stonden de fluit van de koning en de Italiaanse opera in de schijnwerpers, en net als bij alle andere zaken van het leven aan het hof, zette Frederik de toon voor de muziek.

Frederik was in staat om zijn eigen individuele stijl door te drukken. Het voornaamste doel van deze stijl was om le chant noble (nobel gezang) te bereiken. Deze stijl beheerste zowel operateske als instrumentale muziek die aan het hof werd uitgevoerd, waaraan sommige belangrijke componisten uit het midden van de 18e eeuw bijdroegen: de gebroeders Graun en Benda, Quantz, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Janitsch en Agricola. Op dit album voert Musica Ad Rhenum fluitmuziek die enkele van deze componisten voor Frederik de Grote schreven uit.

Musica Ad Rhenum werd in 1991 opgericht door een groep enthousiaste jonge musici, gespecialiseerd in de uitvoering van 17e- en 18e-eeuwse muziek op historische instrumenten. De naam weerspiegelt de vastberadenheid van de leden om het nieuwste musicologische onderzoek en de speelstijlen geassocieerd met de steden Basel en Keulen te combineren met hun eigen visie op de authentieke uitvoeringspraktijk. Deze nadruk op musicologisch onderzoek sluit het element van persoonlijke expressie echter niet uit van hun speelstijl.

Artist(s)

Jed Wentz

Jed Wentz graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Robert Willoughby. He continued his studies with Barthold Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, receiving a Soloist Diploma in 1985. In 1987 he joined Musica Antiqua Köln. In 1992 he founded the early music ensemble Musica ad Rhenum, a group devoted to the application of information from original sources in order to recreate the virtuosic and expressive perfomances of the 18th century. Jed Wentz communicates his musicological discoveries not only through his performances, but also in lectures and articles. He teaches at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam.

Jed Wentz graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Robert Willoughby. He continued his studies with Barthold Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, receiving a Soloist Diploma in 1985. In 1987 he joined Musica Antiqua Köln. In 1992 he founded the early music ensemble Musica ad Rhenum, a group devoted to the application of information from original sources in order to recreate the virtuosic and expressive perfomances of the 18th century. Jed Wentz communicates his musicological discoveries not only through his performances, but also in lectures and articles.
He teaches at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam.

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Anton Steck

Steck began studying the modern violin with Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn in Karlsruhe and the baroque violin with Reinhard Goebel in Cologne. After his studies he served as concertmaster for Musica Antiqua Köln and the French ensemble Les Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski. With these ensembles he gave concerts worldwide and has participated in more than thirty album recordings. In 1996 he co-founded the Schuppanzigh Quartet, where he was first violinist. From 2005 to 2008 he was concertmaster of Concerto Köln. In 1997 he made his conducting début with the Handel Festival Orchestra Halle, where he has been artistic director since 1999. His repertoire ranges from early Baroque to the sonatas and violin concertos of Louis Spohr. The recording of the Sonatas KV 55-60 by Mozart and...

His repertoire ranges from early Baroque to the sonatas and violin concertos of Louis Spohr. The recording of the Sonatas KV 55-60 by Mozart and sonatas by Johann Georg Pisendel been awarded several international record prizes.

Steck, since 2000, is professor of baroque violin and conductor of the Baroque Orchestra of the National Academy of Music Trossingen. He is married to Marieke Spaans who also teaches at the Musikhochschule Trossingen.
Steck plays a Jakob Stainer violin from 1658 and a Alessandro Gagliono from 1701. In 2011, Steck was a judge at the MAFestival in Bruges.

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Musica ad Rhenum

Musica ad Rhenum, founded in 1991 by a group of enthusiastic young musicians specialized in the performance of 17th- and 18th-century music on period instruments, has performed for radio, television and in concerts throughout Europe as well as in festivals in Spain, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Brazil and Argentina. The group's name - latin for Music on the Rhine - reflects the determination of its members to combine the latest musicological research and playing styles associated with the Rhenish cities Basel and Cologne with their own vision of authentic Baroque performance practice. The ensemble's emphasis on musicological research, however, does not exclude the element of personal expression from their playing style. As one reviewer put it: “Musica ad Rhenum is more than just a musicological experiment. The results of research express themselves in joyful and convincing performances full of swager and daring”.
In thus combining musicology and personal inspiration to achieve a moving musical experience, the musicians of Musica ad Rhenum are following the advice of the English poet Dryden, who, in his Essay on Dramatic Poesy (1684) wrote that art should be follow nature, not slavishly on foot, but rather, with unbridled imagination and fantasy, mounted on the back of winged Pegasus.

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Nico de Gier

Job ter Haar

Christoph Mayer

Marcelo Bussi

Composer(s)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and hundreds of cantatas. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth. Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.

Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.

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