Flute Concertos

"Marcello Gatti, Michele Barchi and the single strings of Ensemble Aurora are all superb, playing with grace and style. This disc is very warmly recommended." Gramophone Magazine, April 2009

After two recent incursions into the musical world of young Vivaldi, the excellent Italian violinist Enrico Gatti, together with his Ensemble Aurora, present, amazingly, a hitherto unpublished work by Johann Sebastian Bach. Using a series of arguments, set out in the cd booklet, the musicologist Francesco Zimei has reconstructed the 'lost' Flute Concerto in B minor.The inclusion of this work in the Neue Bach Ausgabe is currently being arranged. Zimei's meticulous and detailed study has as its starting point Bach's habit of reusing instrumental works for new vocal compositions. In this way, Zimei identifies as sources for the 'new' concerto the aria Zieht euren Fuß nur nicht zurücke BWV 207/3, the introductory sinfonia from the cantata Non sa che sia dolore BWV 209 and an aria included in the celebratory cantata Durchlauchtster Leopold BVW 173a. Once the results have been heard few doubts can remain about the provenance of this concerto. The brothers Gatti, Marcello is the flautist on this disc, complete their Bach recital with the earlier version of the fifth Brandenburg Concerto (the Triple Concerto in D major) and the famous Overture in B minor, works closely related both in content and intention with the new discovery which has motivated this recording.