Bach Concertos Janine Jansen

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Violin Concerto No.2 in E, BWV 1042
• 11. Allegro07:26
• 22. Adagio06:05
• 33. Allegro assai02:41
• Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor, BWV 1041
• 41. (Allegro moderato)03:42
• 52. Andante05:39
• 63. Allegro assai03:31
• Concerto in C minor for violin and oboe BWV1060
• 71. Allegro04:59
• 82. Adagio05:10
• 93. Allegro03:33
• Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No.3 in E, BWV 1016
• 101. Adagio03:36
• 112. Allegro02:46
• 123. Adagio ma non tanto04:28
• 134. Allegro03:44
• Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No.4 in C minor, BWV 1017
• 141. Siciliano (Largo)04:06
• 152. Allegro04:15
• 163. Adagio03:01
• 174. Allegro03:13
• Total Runtime01:11:55

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Janine releases a brand new Bach recording, joined by a hand-picked group of friends all exceptional musicians. This is energizing Bach which is lustrous, new and vital made available in vivid, full studio-quality, sound.

Recording the popular E major and A minor concertos alongside the Violin and Oboe Concerto in C minor and two violin sonatas for the first time, Jansen and her ensemble explore these well-known works with a spirit of complete freshness. In the double concerto she is joined by two-time ECHO Award winner RamOn Ortega Quero. Janines ensemble accompaniment on the recording includes her brother, cellist Maarten Jansen, and her father, harpsichordist Jan Jansen.

This record follows the unique chamber footprint that characterize many of her bestselling recordings. Janine is a devotee and advocate of chamber music with her own festival in Utrecht, Holland running for over 10 years.

Janine has been a top selling artist since her debut recording in 2004 for Decca, and has sold more than 300,000 records. Her most recent album, a Prokofiev disc with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, went Gold in the Netherlands soon after release last autumn.

'Jansen can always be relied upon to bring a fresh approach to chamber music . . . This album is no exception. Pure, thrilling, exhilarating playing.' (Paul Drive, Classic FM, London)

Janine Jansen, violin
Ramón Ortega Quero, oboe
Jan Jansen, harpsichord

Boris Brovtsyn, violin
Cindy Albracht, violin
Fredrik Paulsson, violin
Julia-Maria Kretz, violin
Tijmen Huisingh, violin
Monika Urbonaite, violin
Nimrod Guez, viola
Pauline Sachse, viola
Maarten Jansen, cello
Rick Stotijn, double bass

Recorded at Andreaskirche, Wannsee, Berlin, 7–13 June 2013
Executive Producer: Alexander Van Ingen
Recording Producer: Andrew Walton
Recording Engineer: Philip Siney

Janine Jansen
is internationally recognised as one of the great violinists and a truly exciting and versatile artist. Her London debut in November 2002, with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy, was quickly followed by invitations from some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony and Mahler Chamber orchestras, as well as the Chicago Symphony, The Philadelphia, Cleveland and NHK Symphony orchestras. She has worked with such eminent conductors as Valery Gergiev, Mariss Jansons, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Neeme and Paavo Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Daniel Harding, Edo de Waart, Gustavo Dudamel and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Jansen has an exclusive recording contract with Decca (Universal Music). Her most recent release is a French recital disc entitled Beau Soir with pianist Itamar Golan. Each one of her previous five albums has been awarded a Platinum Disc for sales in The Netherlands. Renowned for her success on iTunes, her recordings have reached number one on the digital charts on a number of occasions.

Highlights of the 2010/11 season include performances with the New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony orchestras and the Orchestre de Paris. Janine Jansen will be touring this season with both the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra. She also toured Japan with Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. In the 2009/10 season Janine Jansen curated her own ‘Carte Blanche’ series at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and this year is Artist-in-Residence for the hr-Sinfonieorchester, which includes a number of projects as well as a European Tour.

In addition to her concerto performances, Janine is a devoted performer of chamber music and is performing a number of recitals featuring the music from her latest album with Itamar Golan; cities include Paris, London, Dortmund, Brussels and Frankfurt. She established and curates the annual International Chamber Music Festival in Utrecht, and since 1998 she has been a member of Spectrum Concerts Berlin, an important chamber music series in the Berlin Philharmonie. Her chamber partners include Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Mischa Maisky, Julian Rachlin, Itamar Golan, Martin Fröst, Khatia Buniatishvili, Leif Ove Andsnes and Torleif Thedéen.

A former BBC New Generation Artist, Janine studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn and Boris Belkin. In September 2003, Janine received the Dutch Music Prize from the Ministry of Culture – the highest distinction an artist can receive in The Netherlands. She has received numerous other awards including the Edison Klassiek Public Award three times, three Echo awards for her Vivaldi recording in 2006, her Mendelssohn/Bruch album in 2007 and her Beethoven & Britten Violin Concertos disc in 2010, which was awarded top prize in the Concerto Recording of the Year category (for 20th and 21st Century music), as well as the NDR Musikpreis for outstanding artistic achievement in 2007. In 2008 she was given the VSCD Klassieke Muziekprijs for individual achievement, in May 2009 she received the RPS Instrumentalist Award for performances in the UK and in February 2010 an Edison Award followed for her Beethoven/Britten CD, in the “Concerts” category. In the same month the recording also won a Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.

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