JS BACH Soli Dei Gloria: Transcriptions for Trumpet and Organ
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Genre:
Chamber
Label: Delos
Magazine Review Date: 11/2020
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 114
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: DE3560
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Fanfare, 'Abblasen' |
Gottfried Reiche, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| (6) Schübler Chorales, Movement: Kommst du nun, Jesu, von Himmel herunter, BWV650 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Ach wie nachtig, BWV644 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Nun komm der Heiden Heiland |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| (18) Chorales, 'Leipzig Chorales', Movement: ~ |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Sonata for Oboe |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Cantata No. 161, 'Komm, du süsse Todesstunde', Movement: Choral: Der Leib zwar in der Erden (chor) |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund', BWV621 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| (6) Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord, Movement: No. 3 in A, BWV1032 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: In dulci jubilo, BWV608 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV625 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Es ist das Heil und kommen her, BWV638 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottes-Sohn, BWV601 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Erbarm’ dich, o Herre Gott |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Chorale Preludes, Movement: Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV727 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| (6) Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, Movement: No. 1 in B minor, BWV1014 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV641 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross, BWV622 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich, BWV609 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| (6) Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord, Movement: No. 2 in E flat, BWV1031 (doubtful: possibly by JC Altnikol) |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV610 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Durch Adams Fall, BWV637 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Ich ruf' zu dir, BWV639 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Wer nur den lieben Gott, BWV642 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| (6) Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, Movement: No. 5 in F minor, BWV1018 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend', BWV632 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
| Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Andrew Balio, Trumpet Bruce Bengtson, Organ |
Author: Laurence Vittes
Inspired by Pablo Casals’s belief in playing Bach every day, and the conviction that Bach aspired to a sense of time ‘that was like God’s, that of eternity’, Baltimore Symphony principal trumpet Andrew Balio has recorded two hours of his own transcriptions of flute and violin sonatas and a host of chorale preludes he thought could be ‘further illumined, renewed, or glorified by the trumpet’.
Balio’s long-lined handling of the chorales, the soaring ease and grace with which he reaches stratospheric heights and the expressive use he makes of his occasional trills create a sense of latent power behind the purity of tone and intonation that coincides with his sense of the music’s own spiritual overtones. Eschewing the usual excerpts from the big choral works and cantatas, not to mention the Second Brandenburg Concerto, Balio has crafted a tribute to how naturally the trumpet becomes Bach’s voice in a church setting. And yet, while the programme suggests reflection, things like the A major energy of BWV1032 opening up into the Orgelbüchlein’s radiant ‘In dulci jubilo’, the delights of BWV1031 including its exquisite Siciliano, the serious pleasures of BWV1018 and much else besides make a strong case for purely musical beauty.
Balio and the imaginative organist Andrew Bengtson, at Paul Fritts’s 35-stop Op 24 in the Reyes Organ and Choral Hall at the University of Notre Dame, achieve a stunning clarity of line, wide variety of colour and a sense of the right tempo that is complemented by the dynamic sheen and spaciousness of the audiophile recording.
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