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Bach Generations

After the huge success of his previous Deutsche Grammophon album, devoted to works by Mozart, oboist Albrecht Mayer turns his attention to the uniquely talented Bach family. For Bach Generations, he has chosen a selection of music by four members of the family: Johann Sebastian himself (1685-1750), Johann Christoph (1642-1703), Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) and Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732-1795). There is also a transcription of a work by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, previously attributed to J.S. Bach. Recorded with the Berliner Barock Solisten and Gottfried von der Goltz (solo violin/concertmaster), Bach Generations is set for release on CD and digitally on 4 August 2023. 

Mayer and his fellow performers present some of the Bach Generations repertoire in a concert filmed at Berlin’s Siemens-Villa, where they recorded the album, to be screened on STAGE+ on 3 June.  The oboist will also join Daniel Hope, Lang Lang and others to perform at a gala concert livestreamed by STAGE+ from Leipzig on 9 June. The event is part of the city’s Bach300 Festival, marking the 300th anniversary of J.S. Bach’s appointment as Kantor of the Thomasschule. The Thomanerchor and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig will be conducted by the current Thomaskantor, Andreas Reize.

Albrecht Mayer:

Mozart - Extended Edition

With rave reviews and tremendous success in the German pop charts and classical charts to its credit, Albrecht Mayer · Mozart has already secured its place among this year's outstanding classical albums. The star oboist has now added six new tracks to an already irresistible mix of works recorded with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and harpsichordist Vital Julian Frey. Albrecht Mayer · Mozart – Extended Edition, set for release by Deutsche Grammophon on 12 November 2021, continues Mayer's project to enhance the oboe's repertoire with freshly minted Mozart arrangements.

"Mozart wrote the most beautiful tunes, many of them for soprano or violin," observes Mayer. "I thought now was the time to have these arranged for oboe … At a stressful moment, on a stressful day, under the influence of any hardship, this music can be extremely comforting."

Albrecht Mayer:

Mozart

Albrecht Mayerhas lived with Mozart's music for almost half a century. His encounters with the composer began while he was a boy soprano in the Bamberg Cathedral Choir and have multiplied over the course of his international career. The 55-year-old German oboist has waited until now, however, to record his first all-Mozart album, a personal and affectionate tribute to one of the greatest composers who ever lived. Mozart, set for release by Deutsche Grammophon on 9 April 2021, comprises six works arranged for oboe, oboe d'amore or English horn together with a specially commissioned completion of the fragmentary Oboe Concerto in F major, K 293 (416f).

Albrecht Mayer:

Lost and Found

In the concert hall and in church, as a chamber music instrument and in open-air performances, the oboe was omnipresent in the musical life of Mozart's day. There were countless outstanding wind players who were active in Austria and Bohemia during the second half of the 18th century, with the result that many of the composers associated with Viennese Classicism wrote concertos for the oboe, most of them musicians whose names have fallen into near or total oblivion. Many of these composers were themselves virtuoso oboists who explored and exploited every aspect of their instrument's multifaceted range of sonorities and its constantly improving technical possibilities. This new release from Albrecht Mayer features four such concertos composed around 1780.