J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concertos Gile Bae, Archi di Santa Cecilia & Luigi Piovano

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052:
• 1 Bach: Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro 07:04
• 2 Bach: Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: II. Adagio 06:16
• 3 Bach: Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: III. Allegro 07:09
• Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053:
• 4 Bach: Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053: I. [Allegro] 07:43
• 5 Bach: Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053: II. Siciliano 06:03
• 6 Bach: Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053: III. Allegro 06:01
• Concerto No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1054:
• 7 Bach: Concerto No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1054: I. [Allegro] 07:14
• 8 Bach: Concerto No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1054: II: Adagio e piano sempre 02:40
• 9 Bach: Concerto No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1054: III: Allegro 06:37
• Concerto No. 4 in A Major, BWV 1055:
• 10 Bach: Concerto No. 4 in A Major, BWV 1055: I: Allegro 04:19
• 11 Bach: Concerto No. 4 in A Major, BWV 1055: II: Larghetto 05:06
• 12 Bach: Concerto No. 4 in A Major, BWV 1055: III: Allegro ma non tanto 03:52
• Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056:
• 13 Bach: Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: I. [Allegro] 03:08
• 14 Bach: Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: II: Largo 03:13
• 15 Bach: Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: III: Presto 03:01
• Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (Reorchestred by Antonio Piovano):
• 16 Bach: Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (Reorchestred by Antonio Piovano): I. [Allegro] 04:15
• 17 Bach: Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (Reorchestred by Antonio Piovano): II. Andante 04:30
• 18 Bach: Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (Reorchestred by Antonio Piovano): III. Presto 03:47
• Total Runtime 01:31:58

Info for J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concertos

As Peter Wollny reminds us in the liner notes, Bach’s keyboard concertos constitute a group of innovative works of historic importance, marking the true beginning of the very genre of the keyboard concerto. It is natural, therefore, that they have entered the standard repertoire of pianists, some of whom have left us landmark recordings, even though the more recent discography, especially, is on the whole somewhat limited. The young and talented pianist Gile Bae (who was born in the Netherlands, is Korean in origin, and has close ties with Italy) presents us with a new recording of the first five concertos in a project that is also a “Journey in Italy” unique of its kind, for each concerto was recorded in a different location of the Bel Paese that Bach loved without having ever visited it. Bae’s fellow travellers on this project are the Archi di Santa Cecilia and their director Luigi Piovano, who with this album make a further addition to their successful collaboration with Arcana.

Gile Bae, piano
Archi di Santa Cecilia
Luigi Piovano, musical director

Gile Bae
was born in 1994 in Capelle aan den Ijssel, Netherlands. She made her debut in South Korea as a soloist with a concert for piano and orchestra in Haydn's C Major when she was just five years old and at the age of six she enrolled at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She won the first Dutch awards "International Steinway & Sons Piano Competition" in 2000, and was later chosen to represent Holland at the "International Steinway & Sons Festival" performing at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. In 2017 she recorded the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach, and shortly afterwards became a Bösendorfer Artist. In season 2020-21 she was invited by Sir Andràs Schiff to participate in his Building Bridges series.

Archi di Santa Cecilia
Founded in 1908, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia was the first orchestra in Italy to focus exclusively on symphonic music. Since Sir Antonio Pappano took over as Musical Director in 2005, the orchestra has greatly gained in prestige, obtaining widespread international recognition.

The Archi di Santa Cecilia and Luigi Piovano have been working together since 2013, when their first concert featuring music by Schubert in Rome was described as a «clamorous success» by Luigi Bellingardi in the Corriere della Sera newspaper. From the following year, their concert schedule expanded to include numerous eminent concert venues throughout Italy as well as a busy recording program. Devoted to Schubert, their first CD met with widespread acclaim in the international press and was followed by the Serenades of Dvořák and Tchaikovsky, by “Cinema for Strings” (2017) with music by Rota, Morricone and Piovani, and by a Mozart recording (2020).

Luigi Piovano
received his diploma at the age of 17 with Radu Aldulescu and has appeared in chamber music concerts with artists such as Sawallisch, Chung, Pollini, Lonquich, Sitkovetsky, Kavakos and the Labèque sisters.

He has played as a soloist under the direction of Chung, Nagano and Pletnev. Since 2007 he has been playing regularly in a duo with Antonio Pappano.

For more than 20 years he has been first cello with the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Active also as a conductor, from 2012 he has been musical director of the Magna Grecia Orchestra and, since 2013, at the head of the Archi di Santa Cecilia.

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