Credits:

Koito, Kei

Description:

Kei Koito is a great organist who is respected as a world master. This is the second recording by Kei Koito for Harmonia Mundi in Germany. Born in Kyoto, Japan, she lives in Switzerland and is a world-class organist and professor at the Lausanne Conservatory of Music. She has been invited as a jury member of many international organ competitions and founded the Bach Music Festival (Baroque Academy) in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1997, where she has contributed widely to the promotion of music culture as artistic director since its first year. She has a wide repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music (she also composed music in the early years), but she is especially well known for her historical organ works by Bach and pre-Bach, and all her performances have been highly acclaimed. In recent years, he has released a collection of Bach's famous organ works, Buxtehude, and other works on the Claves label in Switzerland. Although they have not performed in Japan very often, they recently performed in Japan in 2013 and 2015 to high acclaim. This album features two concertos for solo violin and strings by J.S. Bach, arranged by Prince Ernst at the request of Prince Ernst, as well as two concertos for solo keyboard by Italian musicians such as Vivaldi and Marcello, arranged by J.S. Bach and by Johann Gottfried Bach, who was also Bach's cousin. This recording features arrangements by Johann Gottfried Walter (1684-1748), who was also a cousin of Bach.The "Italian Experience," which is always mentioned in various Bach documents, states that Bach learned the Italian form through these arrangements around the age of 23-32, and that Bach's compositional technique was established through these arrangements. It is also believed that Prince Ernst had requested Walter to do the same with Bach. Koito also includes Handel's harpsichord solo works done in the same way, but in the style of a suite. Considering that it was in Utrecht, the Netherlands, where the prince studied, that she introduced Italian and French music to Bach and Walter, it is typical of her to use a historic organ from a Dutch church. Sony Music

Tracklisting:

1.Suite in g, HWV 453: Ouverture
2.Suite in g, HWV 453: Entree
3.Air, HWV 466
4.Suite, HWV 440: Saraband
5.Larghetto, HWV 580
6.Concerto in g, HWV 487: Allegro
7.Concerto in h, F. Tasini after RV 206: Grave
8.Concerto in h, LV 133 after RV 275: Allegro
9.Concerto in h, LV 133 after RV 275: Adagio
10.Concerto in h, LV 133 after RV 275: Allegro
11.Concerto in g, BWV 985 after TWV 51: Allegro
12.Concerto in g, BWV 985 after TWV 51: Adagio
13.Concerto in g, BWV 985 after TWV 51: Allegro
14.Concerto in D, BWV 972 after RV 230: Larghetto
15.Concerto in F, LV 126 after Albinoni: Allegro
16.Concerto in F, LV 126 after Albinoni: Adagio
17.Concerto in F, LV 126 after Albinoni: Allegro
18.Suite in F, HWV 427: Adagio
19.Concerto in a, LV 140 after Torelli: Allegro
20.Concerto in a, LV 140 after Torelli: Adagio
21.Concerto in a, LV 140 after Torelli: Allegro
22.Concerto in d, F. Tasini after RV 356: Largo
23.Concerto in F, / Walsch after HWV 293: Larghetto
24.Concerto in F, / Walsch after HWV 293: Allegro
25.Concerto in F, / Walsch after HWV 293: Alla Sicilliana
26.Concerto in F, / Walsch after HWV 293: Presto
27.Concerto in C, LV 136 after TWV 52: Adagio
28.Concerto in C, LV 136 after TWV 52: Allegro
29.Concerto in C, LV 136 after TWV 52: Adagio
30.Concerto in C, LV 136 after TWV 52: Allegro