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Bach performed by the Italian violinist Giuliano Carmignola – a soberer album than his previous one, Vivaldi con moto, in which we can still recognise this violinist’s status of an international star, whom we had the opportunity of listening to in Romania, as well, at the ‘George Enescu’ International Festival, but also at the Sibiu-Hermannstadt Festival organised by the conductor Christian Badea, Carmignola’s good friend. The album contains Concerto No.1 and No.2 for violin and orchestra, Concerto in D minor for two violins and orchestra and the reconstructions of two original instrumental concerts for keyboard instrument and orchestra.

The album which will be released on 3^rd November displays the name of Giuliano Carmignola and the Concerto Koln ensemble. It is a coproduction between Deutsche Grammophon and the German public radio broadcaster – a special album, not only for reflecting the vision of specialised musicians in baroque music, but also because the disc contains Marco Serino’s reconstruction of two Bach concertos which we only know today in the version for piano and orchestra – the Bach register concertos 1052 and 1056.

Attraction spots

What I believe is impressive, on the first hand, when you listen to this Bach album  is the freshness of his visions – yet the two Bach Concertos for violin and orchestra and the Concerto for two violins and orchestra as well are among the most often interpreted scores from this instrument’s repertoire. And Carmignola fancies quick tempos and, all things considered, a rather interiorised discourse, adapted to the ethical requests of Baroque music.

I believe the main attraction of the album performed today is the Catalogue Concerto in D minor for two violins and orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach. Giuliano Carmignola plays the second violin’s score, and the Japanese violinist Mayumi Hirakashi, who is specialised in Baroque music, plays the first violin’s score.

Other two attraction spots from the same album: Marco Serino’s reconstructions of two Concertos that are only kept today in a single score for harpsichordes or piano and orchestra. There is a supposition that Bach had performed these Concertos by an original which was initially meant for a melodic instrument, possibly the violin, but for the six Concertos between BWV No. 1052 and No. 1057 we only have today a version for harpsichords or piano and orchestra. Marco Serino did reconstructions for violin and orchestra of two of these Concertos – Catalogue No. 1052 and No. 1056. And the result is to be seen within the next minutes.

The Bach disc performed by Giuliano Carmignola will be broadcasted for the first time on 3^rd November, at 19:00, within the Music Box programme and it is included into our Vote for the Best Classical Album of 2014 campaign.