Bach: Suite & Concertos Jörg Halubek & Il Gusto Barocco

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750): Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009:
• 1 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: I. Prelude 03:26
• Concert for Violin in A Minor, BWV 1041:
• 2 Bach: Concert for Violin in A Minor, BWV 1041: I. - 03:52
• 3 Bach: Concert for Violin in A Minor, BWV 1041: II. Andante 05:33
• 4 Bach: Concert for Violin in A Minor, BWV 1041: III. Allegro assai 03:39
• Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009:
• 5 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: II. Allemande 04:00
• 6 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: III. Courante 03:21
• Concerto for Harpsichord in D Major, BWV 1054:
• 7 Bach: Concerto for Harpsichord in D Major, BWV 1054: I. - 07:46
• 8 Bach: Concerto for Harpsichord in D Major, BWV 1054: II. Adagio e piano sempre 05:35
• 9 Bach: Concerto for Harpsichord in D Major, BWV 1054: III. Allegro 03:16
• Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009:
• 10 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: IV. Sarabande 03:05
• Concerto for two Harpsichords in C Minor, BWV 1060:
• 11 Bach: Concerto for two Harpsichords in C Minor, BWV 1060: I. Allegro 04:44
• 12 Bach: Concerto for two Harpsichords in C Minor, BWV 1060: II. Largo ovvero Adagio 04:31
• 13 Bach: Concerto for two Harpsichords in C Minor, BWV 1060: III. Allegro 03:35
• Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009:
• 14 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: V. Bourée I + II 03:32
• Concerto for two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043:
• 15 Bach: Concerto for two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043: I. Vivace 03:42
• 16 Bach: Concerto for two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043: II. Largo ma non tanto 06:55
• 17 Bach: Concerto for two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043: III. Allegro 04:34
• Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009:
• 18 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: VI. Gigue 03:55
• Total Runtime 01:19:01

Info for Bach: Suite & Concertos

Il Gusto Barocco approaches Johann Sebastian Bach's suites and concertos from a contemporary and at the same time historically informed perspective. On their new album "Suite & Concertos", Jörg Halubek and the early music specialists of Il Gusto Barocco take a look at Bach's activities in the Zimmermann coffee house in Leipzig. They are not reconstructing an actual programme, but testing how the spirit of the musical gatherings in the circle of family, relatives and students can be transferred to our modern times. "We want to take a more modern look at Bach, who today is mainly seen as a strict church composer. For us, it's about the communicative side turned towards people," says ensemble leader and harpsichordist Jörg Halubek.

Il Gusto Barocco:
Jonathan Pešek, violoncello
Anaïs Chen, violin
Leila Schayegh, violin
Alexander Gergelyfi, harpsichord
Jörg Halubek, Maestro al harpsichord

Jörg Halubek
studied church music, organ and harpsichord in Stuttgart and Freiburg with Jon Laukvik and Robert Hill. At the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, he specialized in period performance practice with Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon. He won first prize in the 2014 International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in the Organ category.

In recent years, Jörg Halubek appeared in the first place as “Maestro al Cembalo”. As guest artist, Jörg Halubek directed from the harpsichord at such venues as the Komische Oper Berlin, Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Handel Festival in Halle, Innsbruck’s Festival Weeks of Early Music, the Wuppertal Opera and the Stuttgart Liederhalle. As guest conductor since 2012 at Kassel’s Staatstheater he is regularly in charge of opera productions, directing such works as Mozart’s “Lucio Silla”, Gluck’s “Iphigénie” and Handel’s “Saul”. His particular concern is for the dramatic relevance of the historical material and he is a strong advocate of making full use of early music’s freedoms in one’s interpretation.

Directing Il Gusto Barocco, the Baroque ensemble he founded, he was invited to bring it to the 2019 Bach Week in Ansbach as festival orchestra and was very well received. 2021 promises the continuation with “L’Orfeo” of the Mannheim Monteverdi cycle he began with Il Gusto Barocco in 2017. Jörg Halubek has extended his discoveries of forgotten operas and opera arrangements, documented in the recent CD release of his premiere recording of Johann David Heinichen’s “Flavio Crispo”, with his 2020 concertante staging of “Cleofida” – Handel’s opera “Poro, Re dell’Indie” in the arrangement by Georg Philipp Telemann with German-language recitatives – in Stuttgart’s Wilhelma-Theater and at the Early Music Days in Herne.

His expertise in the field of early music is well demonstrated by his prizewinning recordings of works for keyboard instruments and violin by Johann Sebastian Bach (2016) and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2014) with Baroque violinist Leila Schayegh. Jörg Halubek has been Professor for Organ and Historical Keyboard Instruments at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule since 2016.

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