J.S. Bach: Works for lute, Vol. 2 Jadran Duncumb

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998:
• 1 Bach: Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998: I. Prelude 02:49
• 2 Bach: Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998: II. Fugue 06:36
• 3 Bach: Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998: III. Allegro 04:22
• Suite in E Minor, BWV 996:
• 4 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: I. Praeludio. Passaggio – Presto 03:03
• 5 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: II. Allemande 02:48
• 6 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: III. Courante 02:44
• 7 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: IV. Sarabande 03:12
• 8 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: V. Bourée 01:23
• 9 Bach: Suite in E Minor, BWV 996: VI. Giga 03:55
• Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a:
• 10 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: I. Prelude 05:10
• 11 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: II. Loure 03:31
• 12 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: III. Gavotte en Rondeaux 03:35
• 13 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: IV. Menuet I & II 05:00
• 14 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: V. Bourée 01:59
• 15 Bach: Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a: VI. Gigue 02:33
• Total Runtime 52:40

Info for J.S. Bach: Works for lute, Vol. 2

Johann Sebastian Bach excelled as a player on several instruments, but the lute was not one of them.

Even today, this renders his works for solo lute unique in the instrument’s vast repertoire where playing the lute has otherwise been a prerequistite to composing for it.

As such, they pose unique challenges and dilemmas for players who want to present this music in the best light.

Inspired by his teacher, Rolf Lislevand, Jadran Duncumb eschews the well-thumbed pages of Bach’s own manuscripts and sets out on a different path.

Instead, following manuscripts by lutenists contemporary with Bach that take advantage of the instrument’s inherent strengths, he arrives at startling new conclusions.

Jadran Duncumb is of English and Croatian origins, although from the age of nine he grew up near Oslo in Norway.

He made his mind up to study music when he won the String Category and thus reached the final of the “BBC Young Musician of the Year”.

Jadran began to explore baroque music during his studies at the Royal College of Music (where he studied guitar under Gary Ryan and lute under Jakob Lindberg) in London and has since been very active as a continuo player performing with various European ensembles as well as being in demand as a soloist specialising mainly in repertoire for the baroque lute and baroque guitar.

Jadran Duncumb, classical baroque guitar

Jadran Duncumb
is of English and Croatian origins, although from the age of nine he grew up near Oslo in Norway.

He made his mind up to study music when he won the String Category and thus reached the final of the “BBC Young Musician of the Year”.

Jadran began to explore baroque music during his studies at the Royal College of Music (where he studied guitar under Gary Ryan and lute under Jakob Lindberg) in London and has since been very active as a continuo player performing with various European ensembles as well as being in demand as a soloist specialising mainly in repertoire for the baroque lute and baroque guitar. He has given chamber concerts with musicians such as Amandine Beyer, Rolf Lislevand, Mario Brunello and Giuliano Carmignola – playing with the latter two as part of a trio at the Italian festival ‘Suoni delle Dolomiti’ in 2016. With his pianist brother Emil Duncumb, he has explored programmes of pieces for their combination of piano and guitar on both period and modern instruments.

He frequently performs with violinist Johannes Pramsohler, touring with programmes of music for baroque lute and violin by Bach and Weiss and their contemporaries. Their CD of duos and solos by J. S. Bach and Sylvius Weiss came out in October 2017 to wonderful reviews.

His duo, with the violinist Kinga Ujszàszi, “Repicco” was selected to join the Creative Europe’s “EEEmerging Artists Programme” giving concerts and classes in Romania, Latvia, Italy and at the Ambronay Festival – where they were also awarded the audience prize for their concert. They have subsequently been invited to give several concerts throughout Europe in the coming concert seasons, and to serve as mentors in the 2017 Ambronay Baroque Academy. Their debut recording ‘Assissini, assassinati’ came on Ambronay Editions in Autumn 2017 also to excellent critics.

He was awarded the 1st prize at the international “Maurizio Pratola” lute competition in L’Aquila, Italy (Paul O’Dette, jury foreman), as well as receiving a distinction for his Master-recitals in lute and late ‘basso continuo’ at the Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen, Germany where he studied under Rolf Lislevand.

He regularly gives solo recitals and is asked to give masterclasses, specialising mainly on the baroque lute and baroque guitar. His first full solo-CD will come out in April 2018 on Audax records.

When Jadran is not practising, tuning and performing on plucked instruments, he likes to play the viola da gamba with varying degrees of success, and football, with no success at all*.

* apart from in the internal Trossingen Hochshule für Musik Indoor Football Tournament 2013

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