C.P.E. Bach, Boccherini and Handel Baroque Concertos Jan Vogler and Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia & Grant Llewellyn

• 1 I. Largo 02:28
• 2 II. Largo 02:33
• 3 III. Largo 04:35
• 4 IV. Allegro 02:50
• 5 I. Allegro moderato 09:28
• 6 II. Andante grazioso 04:30
• 7 III. Rondo - Allegro 06:03
• 8 Adagio 03:26
• 9 Adagio 04:20
• 10 Allegro 04:18
• 11 I. Allegro 06:26
• 12 II. Largo con sordini, mesto 07:36
• 13 III. Allegro assai 06:20
• 14 I. Larghetto affettuoso 02:34
• 15 II. Allegro 03:11
• 16 III. Largo e piano 02:24
• 17 IV. Allegro 03:43
• Total Runtime 01:16:45

Info for C.P.E. Bach, Boccherini and Handel Baroque Concertos

Welsh conductor Grant Llewellyn makes his Chamber Orchestra début in a Baroque Perspectives program featuring works of Italian and German repertoire. German cellist Jan Vogler makes his Philadelphia début as the featured soloist in Boccherini’s Cello Concerto in B-flat Major, G. 482 and C.P.E. Bach’s Cello Concerto in A Major, Wq. 172. Llewellyn also leads the ensemble in Handel’s Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 4, Corelli’s Concerto grosso in D Major, Op. 6, No. 1 and Geminiani’s Concerto grosso No.12 in D Minor, after Corelli, Op. 5, No. 12.

Jan Vogler, cello
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Grant Llewellyn, conductor

Jan Vogler
A cello prodigé at age 6, Jan first studied with his father Peter Vogler and subsequently with Josef Schwab in Berlin, Heinrich Schiff and Siegfried Palm. At the age of 20 he won the principal cello position of the Staatskapelle Dresden and became the youngest concertmaster in the history of this orchestra. However, his dream of a solo career gradually became reality and he left his position in Dresden in 1997. That same year, certain that the roots of old European music-making were to be found in America, he moved to New York, where he has remained sharing his home with his wife, violinist Mira Wang and their two children. He has won the ‘Echo-Award (German equivalent of the Grammies) and the 2006 European Cultural Award.

The modern representative of the German cello tradition which goes back to Emanuel Feuermann and Julius Klengel, Jan shares his time between Dresden, Germany and New York City, combining the roots of his traditional musical education with a contemporary style of interpretation.

Jan Vogler is the new General Director of the Dresden Musikfestspiele and founder and Artistic Director of the Moritzburg Chamber Music Festival.

Recognized for his “rapturously heartfelt” playing (Washington Post) Jan Vogler’s distinguished career has featured him with many internationally renowned orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Montreal and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras, the Dresden Staatskapelle,, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, and the Vienna Symphony. A passionate recitalist and chamber musician, he performs regularly with pianists Hélène Grimaud and Martin Stadfeld and with violinist Mira Wang. With a strong classical foundation, Jan Vogler embraces the work of his contemporaries and welcomes the process of experimentation, expansion and refinement in his performance style. A dedicated champion of new music, he has recently premiered works by renowned composers Tigran Mansurian with the WDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Semyon Bychkov at the Cologne Triennale, John Harbison, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Udo Zimmermann with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra.

Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
A founding resident company of The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia is a 33-member professional ensemble led by Dirk Brossé. The Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1964 by Marc Mostovoy, has a well-established reputation for distinguished performances of repertoire from the Baroque period through the twenty-first century.

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia welcomed Maestro Dirk Brossé, a conductor of international acclaim, as its new Music Director in September 2010.

The Chamber Orchestra has performed with internationally acclaimed guest artists as Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mstislav Rostropovich, Issac Stern, Rudolph Serkin, The Eroica Trio, Jean-Pierre Rampal, The Romeros Guitar Quartet, Julie Andrews, Bernadette Peters, Ben Folds, Elvis Costello, Sylvia McNair, Steven Isserlis, Joseph Silverstein, Ransom Wilson, Gerard Schwarz, Jahja Ling and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, among others. The ensemble travels regularly, and has toured the United States, Europe, and Israel.

Grant Llewellyn
Music Director of the North Carolina Symphony, Grant Llewellyn is renowned for his exceptional charisma, energy and easy authority in music of all styles and periods. Born in Tenby, South Wales, Llewellyn won a Conducting Fellowship to the TanglewoodMusicCenter in Massachusetts in 1985 where he worked with Bernstein, Ozawa, Masur and Previn. As Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the early 1990s he conducted concerts at the Tanglewood Festival, the Boston Subscription Series and in the “Boston Pops”.

Grant Llewellyn has conducted many orchestras in North America, most notably the symphonies of Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Montreal, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Toronto. As Music Director of the Handel and Haydn Society, America’s leading period orchestra, Llewellyn gained a reputation as a formidable interpreter of music of the Baroque and classical periods.

To date, Grant Llewellyn’s career has led him to hold positions with three European orchestras: Principal Conductor of the Royal Flanders Philharmonic, Principal Guest Conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and Associate Guest Conductor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Recent guest engagements include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Northern Sinfonia, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, amongst others.

An accomplished opera conductor, Grant Llewellyn has appeared at the opera companies of English National Opera (The Magic Flute) and the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where his repertoire has ranged from Handel’s Radamisto to Alexander Goehr’s Arianna. In 2001 he embarked on a collaboration with acclaimed Chinese director Chen Shi-Zheng in a production of Dido and Aeneas at Spoleto Festival, USA. In 2003 Llewellyn made his debut with Opera North in a new production of Massenet’s Manon whilst in June 2005 he conducted the final of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, one of the world’s most prestigious singing competitions. His most recent opera project was a semi-staged production of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro with the North Carolina Symphony.

Recent recordings include American Spectrum, a disc featuring Branford Marsalis as soloist, and piano concerti Rachmaninov 4 and Medtner 2 with Yevgeny Sudbin, both with the North Carolina Symphony for BIS and on the Albany label a recording of Lowell Liebermann’s orchestral works with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Deeply committed and passionate about engaging young people with music, Llewellyn regularly leads education and outreach projects such as ‘Feel the Music’ with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and specialist events with the North Carolina Symphony. Last season also included a large scale tour with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, including performances in Cardiff St David’s Hall, the Berlin Konzerthaus and at the MDR Musiksommer Festival.

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