Violinconcertos from Dresden
Pisendel/Händel/Telemann/Fasch/Heinichen
Premiere Recording
International Baroque Players
Johannes Pramsohler - direction and solo violin
In the eighteenth century, August the Strong established a musical center at the court of Dresden that attracted musicians from throughout the world, and which boasted an orchestra that was as technically accomplished as it was musically outstanding: the Dresden Court Chapel. It was in this environment that concertmaster and violin virtuoso Johann Georg Pisendel composed his virtuoso Violin Concert, as did also his famous contemporaries Handel, Telemann, Fasch, and Heinichen. Having survived the turmoil of a number of wars, these concertos, preserved in Dresden’s famous Schrank II, have received refreshingly vivid and multifaceted first recordings by Johannes Pramsohler and the International Baroque Players, and show themselves to be impressive treasures of the Baroque era in Dresden!
International Baroque Players
Violine / violin / violon
Johannes Pramsohler
Bojan Cicic (1–3, 8–11, 16–18)
George Clifford (4–18)
Ben Norris
Kinga Ujszászi
Beatrice Scaldini
Stephen Pedder
Holly Harman
Daniela Braun (8–11)
Viola / viola /alto
Aliye Cornish
Daniela Braun
María Ramírez Rodríguez
George Clifford (1–3)
Violoncello /cello / violoncelle
Ania Katynska
Violone
Rosie Moon
Traversflöte / transverse flute / flûte traversière
Eva Caballero
Marta Gonçalves
Oboe / hautbois
Joel Raymond
Leo Duarte
Horn / cor
Anneke Scott
Gilbert Camí Farràs
Fagott / bassoon / basson
Rebecca Stockwell
Theorbe / theorbo / théorbe
Jadran Duncumb (1–7, 12–18)
Cembalo / harpsichord / clavecin
Masumi Yamamoto
Leitung und Solovioline / direction and solo violin / direction et violon solo
Johannes Pramsohler
(Violine/violin/violon: P. G. Rogeri, Brescia 1713)
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758)
Concerto in D Major
for violin, flutes, oboes, strings and basso continuo,
FWV L:D8 *
1. (Allegro)
2. Andante
3. Allegro
Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729)
Concerto in A minor
for violin, strings and basso continuo *
4. Largo e staccato
5. Allegro
6. Affettuoso
7. Allegro
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)
Sonata for orchestra in F Major
HWV 392 (arr. Pisendel) *
8. Andante
9. Allegro
10. Adagio
11. Allegro
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
Concerto in B-flat Major
for violin, strings and basso continuo
Pisendel Konzert, TWV 51:B1
12. Largo
13. Vivace
14. (Sempre piano)
15. Allegro
Johann Georg Pisendel (1687–1755)
Concerto in G Major
for violin, horns, oboes, bassoon, strings and basso continuo *
16. Allegro
17. Andante
18. Allegro
* Weltersteinspielung / world premiere recording / premier enregistrement mondial
Total 58:08
