Johann Sebastian Bach – Oboenwerke, vol.3 – Alexei Utkin, Hermitage Chamber Orchestra (2004) [SACD to FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

Johann Sebastian Bach – Oboenwerke, vol.3 – Alexei Utkin, Hermitage Chamber Orchestra (2004)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 00:59:17 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: SACD ISO |  @ Caro MitisItem Number: CM 0012004
Recorded: 9-14.12.2003 5th Studio of The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR) Moscow, Russia

From the first note to the last, this album is fantastic. Bach’s music is inherently heavenly, but add in the inspiration and sheer joy in performance of these Hermitage Chamber Orchestra musicians.
This is the third volume of Bach oboe works released by Caro Mitis with the Alexei Utkin. This program begins with the Fourth Orchestral Suite, followed by the D-minor Oboe Concerto, S 1059, and ends with the Second Orchestral Suite.
The chamber orchestra’s performance of these suites, as well as their accompaniment to Utkin in the concerto, just delights me more each time I listen. They feel every phrase, understand how everything fits together, and bring out some of the most dazzling harmonies. One hour of their performance of this music passes all too quickly. This is a great performance.

The third of a series of arrangements of Bach staples for oboe virtuoso Alexei Utkin-soloist with the Moscow Virtuoso Chamber Orchestra since 1982-now the director of the Hermitage Chamber Orchestra, which he established in 2000. Reedy and piercing in tone, more like Heinz Holliger’s sound than that of Harold Gomberg, Utkin’s oboe makes some exquisite ensemble with his Heritage players in 2003 in brilliant and enhanced digital acoustics. The Concerto BWV 1059 is an imaginative and lyrical reconstruction that splices the Sinfonia from Cantata 156 (better known as the A-flat Major Largo from the F Minor Klavier Concerto) into its lulling sequence. The B Minor Suite simply replaces the flute solos with Utkin’s lithe and sinewy oboe, making the alternately stately and dancing movements a bit darker in color but still as compelling. The D Major Suite is played for its broad French strokes and colossal pomp. Intimacy, character, and resplendent charm ingratiate this album in its entirety, an eminently lyrical salute to the meeting of learned counterpoint with modern sound reproduction. A happy album! ~~Tom Gibbs “Audiophile Audition”

Tracklist:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Orchester Suite No. 4 in D major (BWV 1069)
01 Ouverture [10:45]
02 Bourreée I&II [3:09]
03 Gavotte [2:01]
04 Menuet I&II [4:29]
05 Réjouissance [2:46]

Concerto in D minor for Oboe, Strings and Basso Continuo (BWV 1059)
06 Allegro [5:48]
07 Adagio [3:19]
08 Presto [3:35]
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in A minor (Transcription of Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV 1067 by A. Utkin, 2003)
09 Ouverture [9:43]
10 Rondeau [1:49]
11 Sarabande [2:32]
12 Bourrée I&II [2:16]
13 Polonaise – Double [4:00]
14 Menuet [1:18]
15 Badinerie [1:36]

Personnel:
Alexei Utkin (oboe)

Hermitage Orchestra
Pyotr Nikiforov (1st violin)
Ilya Norshtein (1st violin )
Anna Poletaeva (1st violin)
Dmitry Lepekhov (2nd violin)
Nadezhda Sergiyenko (2nd violin)
Boris Begelman (2nd violin)
Natalia Smolina (viola)
Andrei Kolomoets (viola)
Ekaterina Dossina (cello)
Pyotr Kondrashin (cello) (track 9)
Gleb Sarkissov (cello) (tracks 1-5)
Nikolas Gorshkov (double bass)
Philipp Nodel (oboe)
Svetlana Usatcheva (oboe)
Pyotr Bugrimenko (bassoon)
Stepan Kuzminykh (bassoon) (tracks 6, 8)
Vladislav Lavrik (trumpet)
Stanislav Gorlinsky(trumpet)
Timur Martynov (trumpet)
Dmitry Shelkin (timpani)
Anna Karpenko (harpsichord)

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