Soloist: Capucon, Renaud

Soloist: Christien, Emmanuel

Soloist: Fray, David

Soloist: Rouvier, Jacques

Soloist: Vigoureux, Audrey

Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse

Conductor: Capucon, Renaud

Conductor: Fray, David

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Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian

Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041

Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042

Concerto for 2 Keyboards in C Minor, BWV 1062

Concerto for 2 Keyboards in C Minor, BWV 1060

Concerto for 3 Keyboards in D Minor, BWV 1063

Concerto for 4 Keyboards in A Minor, BWV 1065 (arr. of Vivaldi's, Concerto for 4 Violins in B Minor, Op. 3, No. 10, RV 580)

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Venue: La Halle aux Grains, Toulouse

Date of Concert: 2020

Playing Time: 01:32:47

Television Director: Lauze, Patrick

Catalogue Number: EuroArts6591

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First Concert (19 June 2020)
In the first concert with Renaud Capucon, we have three masterpieces, which, although they adopt the three-movement structure dear to Vivaldi and present features that bring them closer to the Italian models, are distinguished by their contrapuntal richness, their writing density and the breadth of their developments. These qualities are particularly evident in the BWV 1042 in E major, with its extremely powerful architecture.

In these works, where the solo violin is called upon to express itself through singing rather than virtuosic prowess, there are these wonderful slow movements that are enough to crack even the most hardened non-musician. Those in the concertos in A minor and E major "offer to the bass repeated figures whose seriousness brings out the sweetness of the solo violin all the more".

Second Concert (02 July 2020)
For the second concert with David Fray, Bach composed a concerti group for one, two, three and four harpsichords in Leipzig around 1730, and as director of the Collegium Musicum, he was to provide a large amount of music for an essentially worldly audience. All these concerti are transcriptions of earlier works.

Bach left us three concertos for two harpsichords BWV 1060 to 1062, two for three harpsichords BWV 1063 and 1064, and one for four harpsichords BWV 1065, all conceived at the same time as the concertos for one harpsichord.

In this series of six works, the double concertos must certainly be placed very high up: BWV 1062 in C minor stands out for its extraordinary polyphonic richness; BWV 1060, also in C minor, probably from a concerto for violin and oboe, and indeed very often played in a reconstruction for this pair of instruments, is another high point in Bach's concertante for keyboard.

The superb quadruple concerto BWV 1065 is not far off the same heights, and amazes the attentive listener with the skill with which the musician distributes the roles among the four keyboards to keep the work from becoming overweight.