ExclusiveBach: Organ Concerto in C major, BWV 595 (For Trumpet and Organ - Rondeau)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Concerto in C major, BWV 595 (For Trumpet and Organ - Rondeau). This beautiful piece was played by Michel Rondeau. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through musopen.org.

Bach used a work by his young patron as training in the Italian style. Johann Ernst IV, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, was almost fifteen when he went to study law in Utrecht. As a music-lover, he could really indulge himself in the Netherlands, where he rubbed shoulders, as it were, with one of the most important music printing presses of the world. There, he bought things like a copy of Vivaldi’s brand-new opus 3, L’Estro Armonico (Amsterdam, 1711), which Bach was later to use for his organ concertos BWV 594 and 596.

Unfortunately, on his return to Weimar, Duke Johann Ernst did not have long to enjoy the arts of his extremely productive organist. Soon after leaving Utrecht, he developed a swelling on his leg that proved fatal in 1715, at the age of eighteen. In his own music – predominantly violin concertos – Johann Ernst was greatly inspired by Vivaldi. Telemann had heaped praise upon the noble composer when he was alive, and after his death he published a selection of his music. To be honest, though, the result paled a little alongside the Italian model. Johann Ernst’s rather schematic style concept is also reflected in Bach’s arrangement (BWV 595) of the Allegro from the Violin concerto in C major. Although the original concerto has been lost, Bach also made a complete arrangement for harpsichord, BWV 984. Despite all the repetition and the shrill harmonies, the concerto still has a festive effect, which is due to the fresh, bouncy theme and the hurried alternation between the great organ and the choir organ, which takes place far more than in any other work by Bach.

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The video was filmed by Christian Schlegel in Diemtigtal, Switzerland and edited by Wenjing Ma.

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