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Описание: New Release in August 2025 on Challenge Records
Ensemble Odyssee: Original & Counterfeit

Eva Saladin: violin solo
Anna Stegmann: recorder solo
Georg Fritz: oboe solo
Andrea Friggi: harpsichord solo

BWV 1052, 1053, 1056 & 1057

The fact that three of these concertos (BWV 1054, 1057, and 1058) are
arrangements of earlier violin concertos composed in Köthen (BWV 1042, 1049,
and 1041) has led scholars to suspect that the remaining concertos are also
adaptations of lost works for strings or winds, prompting several musicologists
to attempt reconstructions.

In 2016, Christoph Wolff suggested that the Concertos in D Minor and in
E Major (BWV 1052 and 1053) are not transcriptions of lost violin concertos,
as previously assumed, but rather harpsichord versions of organ concertos.
The presence of violin-like figurations does not necessarily indicate a lost violin
version. Similar patterns appear in other Bach keyboard works and were likely
influenced by his experience transcribing Vivaldi. If Wolff’s hypothesis is correct,
then no lost concertos need to be reconstructed: they simply never existed.
This idea served as our starting point. Rather than attempting to reconstruct
lost works through musicological speculation, we asked ourselves: what would
Bach have done if he had to perform one of these pieces again and wished to
showcase a different solo instrument?

A key source of inspiration was the Concerto in F Major (BWV 1057), which Bach
transcribed from the Fourth Brandenburg Concerto (BWV 1049). Not only did
he transpose it down a whole tone (likely to accommodate the range of the
harpsichord available to him at the time), but he also made substantial changes.
He reorganized the musical material so thoroughly that it can be considered an
“improved” version of the original.

Ensemble Odyssee
Anna Stegmann, Georg Fritz (BWV 1057) – recorder
Georg Fritz, Daniel Lanthier (BWV 1053, 1) – oboe
Hanna Lindeijer (BWV 1053, 1) – oboe da caccia

Eva Saladin, Ivan Iliev (BWV 1052), Tomoe Badiarova (BWV 1052), Elise Dupont
(BWV 1053, 1056, 1057) – violin
Nadine Henrichs – viola
Agnieszka Oszańca – cello
Hen Goldsobel – double bass
Andrea Friggi – harpsichord