Vivaldi Sopranino Recorder Concerto 443 -- New Dutch Academy

Simon Murphy (Baroque viola and musical director) together with soloists Gudrun Sidonie Otto soprano, Amy Power recorder, and members of The Hague's Baroque orchestra, The New Dutch Academy (NDA), perform works by Bach, Telemann, Handel, Vivaldi and their Dutch contemporaries, live in concert, filmed at a series of performances given by Murphy and the NDA at the invitation of the Netherland's Council of State for the King and Queen of the Netherlands, Princess Beatrix, Vice President Donner, members of the Council of State and Dutch government, and other guests.
Murphy and the NDA's programme "Bach and his Dutch Contemporaries" features Bach arias including "Höchster, Mache deine Güte" from Cantata no. 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, "Schlummert ein" from Cantata no. 82a Ich habe genug and "Kommt, ihr angefochtnen Sünder" from Cantata no. 30 Freue dich, erlöste Schar, and places Bach's most famous aria not by him, "Bist du bei mir" (by Stölzel, but included in Anna Magdalena's Notebook), alongside Bach's newest "hit", the recently rediscovered "Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn".
Together with selections from Schickhardt's highly innovative L'Alphabet de la musique, Dutch composers represented include van Wassenaer, de Fesch, Hacquart and Graaf,
As well as directing the concert, Murphy appears as soloist in Telemann's classic Viola Concerto in G *. Other works by Handel and Vivaldi complete the programme.
In this concert, Murphy and the NDA utilise a compact Baroque orchestra/ensemble/instrumentation of the kind of size and type which Bach himself used at the court in Köthen and at his smaller, intimate concerts in Leipzig. With one instrument per part, the richly intricate ensemble/part writing of Bach and his contemporaries -- as well as the vitality and immediacy of their musical language in performance -- comes to the fore.
Musicians: Simon Murphy viola, Gudrun Sidonie Otto soprano, Amy Power recorder and Baroque oboe, Tami Troman and Barbara Erdner violin, Caroline Kang violoncello, Karl Nyhlin Baroque guitar and theorbo
Audio Recording and Post Production: Jean-Marie Geijsen (Polyhymnia International), Producer: Simon Murphy
Camera and montage: Rene Louter, (Louterdesign.com)
Concert Location: Raad van State, Gothic Hall (Gotische Zaal), The Hague, Winter 2013-2014
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