Bach - Two Sinfonias, from Cantatas 29 And 156 (25 March 2020) by Live Arts Maryland

Our QuaranTiny Concert release for March 25, 2020  comes from guitarist Piotr Pakhomkin. Piotr has performed with us numerous occasions, most notably playing the Rodrigo “Concierto de Aranjuez” with the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra.  Since then he has appeared on concerts with the Annapolis Chorale and on the Bach+ Series.  Both of the selections for today were recorded live during our October Bach+ concert where we reconstructed several concerti by using movements that Bach pulled from cantatas and other sources. The Sinfonia from "Cantata 29" was taken from the "Partita for Violin” - BWV 1006. This was later transcribed for lute (the version which Piotr is playing in this recording) before eventually making its way as the Sinfonia for a wedding cantata (BWV 120a.). Its final form is the one that is best known as the Sinfonia to his Cantata #29 “Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir”.   The second piece is a transcription of the Sinfonia of Bach’s “Cantata #156”. This piece was derived from an earlier oboe concerto and was later used in the “Concerto for Harpsichord” in f minor - BWV 1056.