Copyright J.S.Bach Annegret Siedel & Ute Gremmel-Geuchen

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Concerto in D minor, BWV 596:
• 1 Bach: Concerto in D minor, BWV 596: I. Ohne Bezeichnung 05:04
• 2 Bach: Concerto in D minor, BWV 596: II. Adagio 02:57
• 3 Bach: Concerto in D minor, BWV 596: III. Allegro 03:12
• Trio Sonata No. 4 in E minor, BWV 528:
• 4 Bach: Trio Sonata No. 4 in E minor, BWV 528: I. Adagio-Vivace 02:34
• 5 Bach: Trio Sonata No. 4 in E minor, BWV 528: II. Andante 04:41
• 6 Bach: Trio Sonata No. 4 in E minor, BWV 528: III. Un poco Allegro 02:42
• Johann Sebastian Bach:
• 7 Bach: Ertöt uns durch dein Güte 01:51
• 8 Bach: Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter 03:38
• 9 Bach: Praeludium in D minor 04:16
• 10 Bach: Fuga in D minor, BWV 539,2 05:39
• 11 Bach: Toccata in A minor, BWV 565 03:00
• 12 Bach: Fuga in A minor, BWV 565 07:58
• Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland:
• 13 Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 04:04
• 14 Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 660 02:37
• Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227:
• 15 Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: No. 1 01:34
• 16 Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: No. 2 01:18
• 17 Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: No. 3 00:57
• 18 Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: No. 4 01:15
• 19 Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: No. 5 02:14
• 20 Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: No. 6 03:54
• 21 Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227: No. 7 01:39
• Concerto in D minor, BWV 974:
• 22 Bach: Concerto in D minor, BWV 974: I. Ohne Bezeichnung 03:11
• 23 Bach: Concerto in D minor, BWV 974: II. Adagio 03:44
• 24 Bach: Concerto in D minor, BWV 974: III. Presto 04:34
• Total Runtime 01:18:33

Info for Copyright J.S.Bach

Throughout his entire life, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great number of arrangements, transcriptions, and “parodies”. Baroque violinist Annegret Siedel and the organist Ute-Gremmel Geuchen are experimenting this field with great joy in playing a varied spectrum of Bach's compositions on violin and organ, violon solo, or organ solo.

In his youth Bach made keyboard arrangements of a great number of works by other masters, or used their themes to write his own fugues. When he was older, he started to re-arrange his own works for other instrumental settings. In his vocal output, particularly in Leipzig, he often resorted to earlier works but inserted a new text: this is the so-called “parody” technique. Bach’s openmindedness toward transcriptions, frequently on display, encourages us to try out new settings of his works today.

The Hamburg baroque violinist Annegret Siedel and the Kempen organist Ute-Gremmel Geuchen (who also recorded five SACDs of Bach's complete organ works on Aeolus) are experimenting this field with great joy. Of particular interest are, for example, the Toccata and Fugue BWV 565 in a version for solo violin (!), as well as organ arrangements of individual movements of the choral motet "Jesu, meine Freude" BWV 227. Of course, the two also perform together, e.g. the E minor Trio Sonata BWV 528, with the violin taking over one of the trio's voices. The organ is a reconstruction of Christian Ludwig König's instrument form 1752, which had been destroyed. The actual instrument was rebuilt by Verschueren Orgelbouw after the specifications of the historic instrument.

Annegret Siedel, violin
Ute Gremmel-Geuchen, organ

Annegret Siedel
studied in Berlin and was the first violin for the Komische Oper orchestra and was engaged in the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg.

She widened her artistic education with Michael Vogler in Berlin, as well as with Ernst Kovacic in Vienna.

From 1990 to 1993, she studied baroque violin with Hiro Kurosaki and historical performance practice with Nicolaus Harnoncourt at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.

Since 1995, Annegret Siedel has given concerts as soloist, chamber music partner and as concert master of orchestras playing baroque, classic and romantic music on historical instruments. Her many sided repertoire, which is laden with many CD and radio performances, she widens with concerts for the viola d’amore, as well as with parts for viola and violino piccolo.

She was able to gather a large amount of experience with improvisation, outside the normal concert involvement through releases, concerts and tours with the American jazz pianist Uri Caine and his ensemble.

Concerts with chamber music have recently been taking up more time in her concert activity. On the one hand, this is concerts with the Bell’arte Salzburg Ensemble, and on the other hand Duo-programmes with Zvi Meniker, Menno van Delft and Natalia Solotych (fortepiano), Pieter van Dijk, Francis Jacob, Christian Skobowsky, David Franke (organ), Brett Leighton, Hans-Jürgen Schnoor, Barbara Maria Willi (harpsichord), Margit Schultheiß (baroque harp and organ) and Michael Freimuth (lute, theorbo and classical guitar).

Annegret Siedel has lead the Bell’arte Salzburg Ensemble since 1995, which has produced an extensive repertoire and artistic direction with 15 CD releases and a television production (BR München).

Concert programmes are often broadcast live on TV and radio: BR, ORF, WDR, DRS 2, Deutschlandradio Kultur, NDR, MDR, HR et al. Bavarian TV live recorded a concert by the Bell’arte Salzburg Ensemble with a “Musi- kalische Vesper” (works by Andreas Hofer, Biber, Dolar and Valentini) on 31.08.2007

The Prelude Classical Award 2009 was awarded to the CD “Ave Maria” with Nuria Rial (Soprano). The release of “Rosenkranz- Sonaten” received the Supersonic Award in 2013.

Concert tours take Annegret Siedel mostly through Europe, and to the USA, Japan and Israel.

She teaches violin, baroque violin and viola and viola d’amore in private lessons and in association with projects at music colleges and at courses.

Ute Gremmel-Geuchen
received her first organ instructions from Oskar Gottlieb Blarr in Düsseldorf. Subsequently she studied Protestant Church Music at the College of Music in Cologne (organ with Peter Neumann, receiving the final A diploma.

Following study with Ewald Kooiman at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam on the DAAD scholarship, she concluded her training at the Musikhochschule of Stuttgart with John Laukvik and Ludger Lohmann, reveiving the concert certificate in harpsichord and the soloist’s examination in organ. Ute Gremmel-Geuchen has been prizewinner in the Lausanne and Nijmegen competitions, and also has various radio and CD-recordings to her credit.

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