J.S. Bach: Horn Concertos Radek Baborák & Berliner Barock Solisten

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Oboe Concerto in F Major, BWV 1053R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra):
• 1 Bach: Oboe Concerto in F Major, BWV 1053R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra): I. Allegro 08:16
• 2 Bach: Oboe Concerto in F Major, BWV 1053R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra): II. Siciliano 05:25
• 3 Bach: Oboe Concerto in F Major, BWV 1053R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra): III. Allegro 06:52
• Oboe Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1059R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra):
• 4 Bach: Oboe Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1059R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra): I. Allegro 06:08
• 5 Bach: Oboe Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1059R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra): II. Adagio 03:57
• 6 Bach: Oboe Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1059R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra): III. Presto 04:03
• Oboe d'amore Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra):
• 7 Bach: Oboe d'amore Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra): I. Allegro 04:25
• 8 Bach: Oboe d'amore Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra): II. Larghetto 05:51
• 9 Bach: Oboe d'amore Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055R (Arr. for Horn & Orchestra): III. Allegro ma non tanto 04:33
• Total Runtime 49:30

Info for J.S. Bach: Horn Concertos

Johann Sebastian Bach never composed a concerto or solo piece for the Waldhorn. Here and there, it is true, he wrote some wonderful passages for the valveless horn of his day – in the Brandenburg Concerto no.1, the Mass in B minor and just a few of his cantatas. For my part, I was keen to get closer still to his musical cosmos. Some 20 years ago, I began to play his cello suites on the horn and I handled them very carefully. It was the first hurdle to clear and my first encounter as a hornist with the great master.

“You can approach Bach in many different ways”– horn concertos with Radek Baborák: Imagine the following scene: A music-loving Venetian merchant visits Leipzig on business in the 1730s. Once the deal is done, his business contacts in the city invite him to a concert in Zimmermann’s Coffee House, where Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian regularly performs with his Collegium musicum. The evening’s programme includes a Concerto for four harpsichords and strings with Bach himself, probably his grown-up sons and maybe one of his pupils on the solo instruments. When the work begins, the visitor from Venice is taken by surprise. This is music he knows from his native city, albeit as a Concerto for four violins and strings from the cycle L’estro armonico by his countryman Antonio Vivaldi. Bach has arranged the concerto and much else out of admiration for the Venetian maestro.

Radek Baborak, horn
Berliner Barock Solisten

Radek Baborák
Born in the Czech Republic in 1976, hornist and conductor Radek Baborák was appointed principal hornist or the Czech Philharmonic when he was just 18. He has since been principal hornist of some of the world’s top orchestra’s, including the Berlin Philharmonic from 2002-2011.

Baborák has collaborated with some of the world’s most distinguished conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, Simon Rattle, as well as instrumentalists Yefin Bronfman, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin and has appeared as guest soloist with many notable orchestras, including the the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo.

Chamber music is an integral part of Baborak’s life. He founded and has led the Czech Horn Chorus, the Afflatus Quintett and the Czech Sinfonietta and the Baborak Ensemble. His concerts have been broadcast by EuroArts, ARD, NHK, RTVE and he has made numerous recordings for Emi, Sony, Exton, Suprafon.

Baborák has won prizes at numerous competitions, including at the Munich ARD International Music Competition, the Geneva International Music Competition and the Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition.

He has taught at Fondazione A. Toscanini, the Academy of Music in Prague, Senzoku University in Tokyo and is the Barenboim-Said Akademie’s principal French horn lecturer.

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