Credits:

Jan Nigges

Description:

Recorder Jan Nigges, who studied with virtuoso Michael Schneider at the age of 15, formed Four Times Baroque in 2013 with four young players, only 20 years old at the time, and won the Opus Klassik Award Newcomer of the Year in 2018, creating a period instrument They have created a sensation in the period instrument world. He also gathered a group of young period instrumentalists and co-founded the "Vox Orchestra" with Lorenzo Gilleland. In addition to the recorder, from an early age he developed a love for other woodwind instruments such as the baroque oboe and the transverse flute, which he began to study. He has appeared as a soloist with his ensemble in concerts and festivals throughout Europe. This album, his first solo album under the name Nigges, features him with Baroque Avenue, a new small ensemble he formed with fellow instrumentalists and soprano Sibylla Elsing. The main works are concertos for recorder by leading German Baroque composers such as Telemann and Fasch, combined with soprano arias by Telemann and Handel (where the recorder also plays an active role).Baroque music played on the highly skilled and expressive recorder is delicately yet boldly intertwined with the other instruments to create an enchanting world. Sibylla Elsing, who participates as soprano, learned to play the violin and discovered her voice while studying at Wells Cathedral School, where she studied with Romana Noack; since 2018, she has performed Cupid (Orfe in Hell), Papagena and the Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute), Zerlina ( Don Giovanni) and other roles in opera to critical acclaim. Sony Music

Tracklisting:

1.Overture-Suite in A Minor for Recorder, Strings and B.C., TWV 55:A2~Ouverture
2.Overture-Suite in A Minor for Recorder, Strings and B.C., TWV 55:A2~Les Plaisirs
3.Overture-Suite in A Minor for Recorder, Strings and B.C., TWV 55:A2~Air a l'Italien
4.Overture-Suite in A Minor for Recorder, Strings and B.C., TWV 55:A2~Menuet I & II
5.Overture-Suite in A Minor for Recorder, Strings and B.C., TWV 55:A2~Rejouissance
6.Overture-Suite in A Minor for Recorder, Strings and B.C., TWV 55:A2~Passepied I & II
7.Overture-Suite in A Minor for Recorder, Strings and B.C., TWV 55:A2~Polonaise
8.Daran ist erschienen die Liebe Gottes, TVWV 1:165~O, wer kann die liebe sagen
9.Concerto in F Major for Recorder, Strings and B.C.~Allegro
10.Concerto in F Major for Recorder, Strings and B.C.~Largo
11.Concerto in F Major for Recorder, Strings and B.C.~Allegro assai
12.Serse, HWV 40~Va Godendo Vezzoso e Bello
13.Der geduldige Sokrates (Patient Socrates), TWV 21:9~Mich Trostet die Hoffnung
14.Concerto Pastorale in F Major for Two Recorders, Strings and B.C.~Pastorale
15.Concerto Pastorale in F Major for Two Recorders, Strings and B.C.~Aria Presto
16.Concerto Pastorale in F Major for Two Recorders, Strings and B.C.~Aria Grave
17.Concerto Pastorale in F Major for Two Recorders, Strings and B.C.~Aria Pastorale
18.Concerto Pastorale in F Major for Two Recorders, Strings and B.C.~Minuet
19.Concerto Pastorale in F Major for Two Recorders, Strings and B.C.~Chaconne
20.Concerto Pastorale in F Major for Two Recorders, Strings and B.C.~Aria Presto