Le Caravansérail / Bertrand Cuiller
Four Bachs in Berlin
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Recorded live at the Geertekerk Utrecht, 30 August 2022
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About this concert
Le Caravansérail has selected music from the varied oeuvre of Johann Christian Bach that is reminiscent of what his brother C.P.E. wrote for the Berlin court. A sinfonia by Wilhelm Friedemann for two flutes, plus canons by Johann Sebastian Bach, remind one of their visit to Frederick the Great in 1747. Their pupil Johann Gottlieb Goldberg rounds off the programme with a concerto for harpsichord and strings.
Programme
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Sinfonia for 2 flutes and strings in D minor, F. 65
1710-1784 -
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
Concerto for harpsichord and strings in D minor, DürG 16
Allegro
Largo
Allegro di molto1727-1756 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
14 canons on the bass of the ‘Goldberg Variations’
1685-1750 -
Johann Christian Bach
Concerto for harpsichord and strings in F minor, WC 73
Allegro di molto
Andante
Prestissimo1735-1782
Musicians
- Frank Theuns, Barbara Ferraz flute
- Yoko Kawakubo, Myriam Mahnane, Anne Rautiola, David Wish violin
- Jérôme Van Waerbeke viola
- Bruno Cocset cello
- Benoît Vanden Bemden double bass
- Bertrand Cuiller harpsichord and musical direction
About the performers
The French Baroque ensemble Le Caravansérail is a new venture for harpsichordist Bertrand Cuiller. He founded the group in 2015, having conducted John Blow’s opera Venus & Adonis. From 2015 until 2017 the group was artist in residence at the Abbey of Royaumont. Its first CD, A Fancy, appeared in 2017 and has been well received in the press.
Bertrand Cuiller was born in 1978 and studied harpsichord with Pierre Hantaï. He is also interested in modern music, and has premiered works by Jean-Yves Bosseur and Olivier Mellano. In 2012/13 Cuiller conducted his first opera, Blow’s Venus & Adonis. In 2015 his recording of Rameau’s complete harpsichord music was released. In 2014 he founded his own ensemble, Le Caravansérail.