Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750)

• Bach, J S: Concerto for Four Keyboards in A minor (after Vivaldi), BWV1065
• Bach, J S: Concerto for Three Keyboards in C major, BWV1064
• Bach, J S: Concerto for Three Keyboards in D minor, BWV1063
• Bach, J S: Concerto for Two Keyboards in C major, BWV1061
• Bach, J S: Concerto for Two Keyboards in C minor, BWV1060
• Bach, J S: Concerto for Two Keyboards in C minor, BWV1062
• Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV1052
• Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major, BWV1055
• Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV1056
• Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor, BWV1058

Evgeni Koroliov, Anna Vinnitskaya, Ljupka Hadzi Georgieva, Kammerakademie Potsdam

Over the past five years, pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has made three Alpha recordings dedicated to Shostakovitch, Brahms et Rachmaninov.

Evgeni Koroliov is a great master of the piano, a great Bach specialist, whose recordings of Bach are an acclaimed benchmark. His piano duo with his wife, Ljupka Hadzi-Georgieva, has made its mark over the past few years in all the major international concert venues. Also a highly reputed teacher, Koroliov was Anna Vinnitskaya’s professor at Hamburg.

‘Though I no longer study with him, I still meet and talk with him several times a week,’ she confides. ‘That helps me further in my development, not just as a pianist but as a human being…Now that I am myself a professor at the same university, I try to carry it on, to pass his experience on to others.’

These three Slavonic pianists, who for some time have been aiming to record the Bach concertos as a team, decided to invite a German ensemble that is itself highly expert in Bach interpretation, the Potsdam Chamber Orchestra; they recorded this double album in a legendary venue where some of the greatest artists have recorded: the Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin.

July 2019