Bach: Concertos Brandebourgeois, BWV 1046-51 La Simphonie du Marais & Hugo Reyne

• 1 I. Allegro 09:47
• 2 II. Affetuoso 05:55
• 3 III. Allegro 05:25
• 4 I. [Tempo giusto] 05:43
• 5 II. Adagio 00:37
• 6 III. Allegro 05:01
• 7 I. [Tempo giusto] 04:05
• 8 II. Adagio 03:57
• 9 III. Allegro 04:08
• 10 IV. Menuetto - Trio I - Menuetto - Polonaise - Menuetto - Trio II - Menuetto 06:50
• 11 I. Allegro 06:54
• 12 II. Andante 03:48
• 13 III. Presto 04:26
• 14 I. [Tempo giusto] 07:13
• 15 II. Adagio 04:56
• 16 III. Allegro 05:51
• 17 I. [Tempo giusto] 05:08
• 18 II. Andante 03:34
• 19 III. Allegro assai 03:18
• 20 Herz und Mund und tat und Leben , BWV 147: X. Chorale. Que votre joie demeure 04:07
• Total Runtime 01:40:43

Info zu Bach: Concertos Brandebourgeois, BWV 1046-51

La Simphonie du Marais is offering you a masterpiece of the Baroque repertoire, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Hugo Reyne, now as the conductor, now as the recorder player, reveals the extent of Leipzig’s future cantor’s talent in a version «à la française» that allows ample room for the wind instruments.

Until he was almost thirty, the young Bach had devoted himself almost exclusively to composing keyboard music, organ or harpsichord. Very little vocal music, or chamber music, still less for the orchestra. And then one of his life’s most determining events occurred, his discovery around 1713-1714 of Italian music, especially the concertos for various ensembles. First in the form of handwritten copies : printing was expensive, so at the time it was these copies which largely contributed to the circulation of the new works, and often enough they remained the sole knowledge sources for those past works. The creations of Corelli, Albinoni, or Torelli were circulating in Germany ; and the famous virtuoso violinist Pisendel, former student of Torelli, and to whom Vivaldi dedicated six concertos, was also bound to pass the scores on to his friend Bach. However, it is the printed publishing that would prove decisive, especially with the publication in Amsterdam of Vivaldi’s first collection, already very well-known in Germany, and which would excite musical Europe.

Then organist and concert master at Weimar Principality, Bach was seized by a passion for these concertos. In order to better absorb their formal and stylistic novelty, he first made a point of undertaking their transcriptions, reducing and adapting them for the harpsichord or the organ, and therefore understanding from within the patterns of their language. Today there are thus more than twenty concertos recognized as transcriptions by Bach for his own use. …

La Simphonie du Marais
Hugo Reyne, flute, conductor

Hugo Reyne
The French flutist, oboist and conductor, Hugo Reyne, started playing the recorder and the oboe at a very early age. Within a short space of time, he received numerous diplomas and the highest awards from several conservatoires, to say nothing of the many first prizes he obtained at national level. In 1981, he was awarded first prize at the Hurtebise international recorder competition and in 1984, he won the chamber music award at the Concours International de Bruges.

As a solo flautist, Hugo Reyne has recorded George Frideric Handel’s sonatas (Harmonia Mundi), Arcangelo Corelli concertos (Opus 111), the Dieupart suites (EMI), the sonata for recorder by Anne Philidor (Musique à Versailles - Virgin) and a collection of works by Purcell (Virgin), Gautier (Astrée-Naïve), Dornel (Tempéraments-Radio-France) and Fiocco (Musique en Wallonie).

For many years, Hugo Reyne was a highly valued performer with the leaders of the Baroque movement (Frans Brüggen, William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Gustav Leonhardt and Jordi Savall) and had a successful orchestral career before founding his own company, La Simphonie du Marais, in 1987. In the 1980's, he played both flute and oboe in most of the baroque ensembles in Paris, notably 1st flute at Les Arts Florissants from 1983 to 1996. He has performed in the USA, Canada, South America, Australia, and Japan and throughout Europe. He has also worked as musical director for other orchestras including the Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine.

Hugo Reyne, who has been awarded the Certificat d’Aptitude de Musique Ancienne, has taught in a number of music academies and conservatoires, particularly the Conservatoire National de Région de Bordeaux from 1990 to 2000, and has also shared his passion during training courses held for young musicians. He has been teaching at the Conservatoire National de Région de Marseille since 2001.

Hugo Reyne also devotes a considerable amount of time to musicology research and to publishing early scores. In 1998, he was made Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the ministry for culture for his work on France’s musical heritage. Hugo Reyne has been the artistic director of the "Musiques à la Chabotterie" festival since 2003 and lives in Vendee.

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