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Ensemble Sonnerie, under the direction of Monica Huggett, returns to AVIE Records with a new musical view on the Orchestral Suites by J.S.Bach. The recording includes a reconstruction of the ever-popular Second Suite by the leading oboist in the period instrument field, Gonzalo X. Ruiz and is a premiere Recording.
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Ensemble Sonnerie, Monica Huggett (violin/director), Gonzalo X. Ruiz (oboe)
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Gonzalo X.Ruiz: "Johann Sebastian Bach's Four Orchestral Suites have traditionally been viewed as a collection in spite of not having been composed as a set (like the six English Suites) or even compiled by the composer from existing works (like the six Brandenburg Concertos). These are simply the only four works of that kind to have survived. In all likelihood Bach composed many more such Ouvertures, as he called them, but these are regrettably lost. In fact, recent examination of the four we do have reveal that three of them have come down to us not in their original form but in later re-orchestrations. This recording presents the works in what I believe are their original versions. In the case of the Second Suite BWV 1067, I propose a new and I hope more convincing reconstruction of the original than other attempts of recent years."
Monica Huggett on the Orchestral Suites: "There is quite a lot of academic chatter regarding time and place of the composition of the Orchestral Suites. In my opinion, although the extant versions date from Bach's post-Köthen years, the compositional style places the Suites definitely in his pre-Leipzig years. I am also very convinced by the thesis that Bach recycled and embellished earlier instrumental music when he was Kantor in Leipzig and had larger, more diverse instrumental resources at his disposal. In Köthen, Prince Leopold's court orchestra consisted of strings, oboes, bassoon, and harpsichord - which is the size of orchestra we used for this recording. Prince Leopold was only 23 years old when he hired Bach. Leopold had studied violin in Berlin and had done the customary aristocratic Grand Tour and returned to his princely duties in Köthen with a passion for music. We know that he spent a quarter of his annual court budget on music and that he paid Bach the handsome salary of 400 thalers a year. Later, in Leipzig, Bach's salary was 100 thalers a year."
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