Acclaimed Canadian violinist James Enhes is featured on an upcoming launch by The Nationwide Arts Centre Orchestra. Titled J.S. Bach: The Full Violin Concertos, the album was recorded in Southam Corridor on the Nationwide Arts Centre, and contains Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor, Violin Concerto in E main, Concerto for Two Violins, and Concerto for Flute, Violin, and Harpsichord.
Ehnes’s personal reconstructions of Bach’s Violin Concerto in D minor, Violin Concerto in G minor, Concerto for Oboe and Violin, and Concerto for Three Violins additionally seem on the discharge. Different featured soloists embrace Charles Hamann (oboe), Jessica Linnebach (violin), Joanna G’froerer (flute), Lucienne Beausejour (harpsichord), and Yosuke Kawasaki (violin).
The whole album will likely be out there worldwide on March 28, with an advance observe that’s out there now.
You may take heed to the primary motion (Allegro) of Bach’s Violin Concerto E main, BWV 1042 beneath. It’s additionally out there on different main music streaming companies.
James Ehnes
Multi-Juno and Grammy Award-winning violinist James Ehnes started learning the violin at age 5, and have become a protégé of Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin on the age of 9. At 13, James made his orchestra debut with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. He’d proceed his research on the Meadowmount Faculty of Music, adopted by The Juilliard Faculty the place he gained the Peter Mennin Prize for excellent achievement and management in music when he graduated in 1997.
His profession as we speak takes him to engagements all around the world, together with latest appearances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, amongst others. Throughout the 2024/25 season, he’s serving as Artist in Residence with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. His schedule additionally contains touring Asia to carry out the entire Beethoven sonatas in Tokyo, together with performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
As a recitalist, James is an everyday performer at Wigmore Corridor in London, Carnegie Corridor, and Chicago’s Symphony Heart, amongst different main worldwide venues. He leads the Ehnes Quartet, and serves as Creative Director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society
His recordings have gained two Grammy Awards, three Gramophone Awards, and 12 JUNO Awards.
Amongst his many accolades, Ehnes is a Member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Manitoba, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, the place he’s a Visiting Professor of Violin. He’s additionally a Professor of Violin at Indiana College’s Jacobs Faculty of Music.
Ehnes was in the midst of a residency with the NAC Orchestra when the sonatas have been recorded in early 2024. He’s labored with NACO regularly over a 3 decade interval.
Search for the total album launch on March 28.
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.