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Johann Sebastian Bach - Masters of Classical Music - Vol 2 (1990) Cover Front Album Artist/Composer Johann Sebastian Bach Length 59:50 Format CD Genre Classic Index 13 Collection Status In Collection Track List 01 Overture No. 4: Rejouissance Ludwig Guttler, trumpet New Bach Collegium Musicum Max Pommer 02:24 02 Overture No. 3: Air New Bach Collegium Musicum Max Pommer 04:06 03 Overture No. 2: Badinerie Eckart Haupt, flute New Bach Collegium Musicum Max Pommer 01:27 04 Oboe Concerto in D minor: Adigio Burkhard Glaetzner, oboe New Bach Collegium Musicum Max Pommer 03:07 05 Minuet in D minor, BWV Anh. 132 Karl-Heinz Passin, flute Walter Heinz Bernstein, harpsichord 01:13 06 Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. 116 Walter Heinz Bernstein, virginals 02:11 07 Overture No. 1: Passepied New Bach Collegium Musicum Max Pommer 03:10 08 Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 Hannes Kastner, organ 09:24 09 "Ich liebe den Hochsten von ganzem Gemute", Cantata, BWV 174: Sinfonia New Bach Collegium Musicum Max Pommer 06:12 10 Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047: Andante New Bach Collegium Musicum Max Pommer 03:36 11 Easter Oratorio, BWV 249: Sinfonia Ludwig Guttler, trumpet New Bach Collegium Musicum Max Pommer 03:58 12 Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042: Adagio Miklos Szenthelyi, violin Hungarian Chamber Orchestra G. Gyorivanyi-Rath 06:10 13 "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", Chorale, BWV 645 Hannes Kastner, organ 05:01 14 Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046: Adagio New Bach Collegium Musicum Max Pommer 04:06 15 "Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter", Chorale, BWV 650 Ludwig Guttler, trumpet Friedrich Kercheis, organ 03:45 Personal Rating 70% Details Spars DDD Rare No Sound Stereo UPC 018111580229 Notes (P)1988 Delta Music Inc. LaserLight 15 802 Sometime around the year 1590, Veit Bach, who was born in Hungary, left his homeland and settledin Thuringia, where he was allowed to freely practice his Lutheran faith. He was the forefather of the large Bach clan, a musical dynasty whose members enjoyed an almost legendary reputation as organists, city pipers and court orchestra musicians. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 in Eisenach. It was virtually self-evident that he would follow inhis father's footsteps and prepare himself for a city musician's profession by undergoing thorough musical training at an early age. In 1695 Sebastian's father died, leaving the boy to be raised by his brother Johann Christoph, who was fourteen years older than Sebastian. Then, at the age of fifteen, the highly talented boy received a stipend which enabled him to attend St. Michael's School in Luneburg. He sang in the school choir, familiarized himself with the North German art of organ playing, delved into the school's comprehensive music library, went on study excursions to the nearby musical centers of Celle and Hamburg and essentially learned the musical arts autodidactically. Beginning as city organist in the Thuringian cities of Arnstadt and Mulhausen (1703-1708), Bach rapidly climbed the social ladder of the musician's profession. Hespent nearly ten years as court organist and concertmaster at the court of Weimar. The years 1717-1723 were enormously fruitful for Bach's artistry; as Kapellmeister of the court orchestra in the little residential palace of the Prince of Cothen, he oversaw a superbly well- organized, seventeen-member court orchestra. It was in Cothen that Bach wrote the Brandenburg Concertos, as well as various solo concertos and numerous works for keyboard instruments. When the prince's interet in musicbegan to wane, Bach -- also wishing to move to a place where his growing boys could receive an academic education -- left Cothen for Leipzig. Hespent the last twenty-seven years of his life there, serving in a twofold capacity. As Cantor of St. Thomas' School (a boarding school for boys), he was responsible for all musical instruction given at the school. Moreover, as "Director Musices", he was in charge of the music performed in Leipzig's churches. But Bach was also one of the first musicians to give concerts in coffeehouses, conducting an orchestra consistingmainly of students. These performances helped to free music from its courtly and sacred functions and to make it accessible and familiar to the newly-emerging middle class.