Sprezzatura Clarino-Baroque Tpt CD
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RECORDING PROJECT:
Sprezzatura del Clarino: The High Register Baroque Trumpet (Josh Cohen, Baroque trumpet)
Help one of the world’s leading clarino trumpeters make his debut solo recording a reality.
A solo CD featuring baroque trumpet performer Josh Cohen with conductor Daniel Abraham is planned for recording in 2019 and intended for the Musica Omnia label. Featuring performances requiring extremely demanding clarino playing—baroque trumpet in its highest register—the recording promises to showcase Josh Cohen’s mastery of this once lost craft and his uncanny ability to make this treacherous work seems both easy and profoundly musical (“sprezzature”). The proposed repertoire also represents a few better-known works (Graupner, Telemann and Torelli) and selections that have received few or no previous recordings on period instruments (Bond, Endler, Finger, Grossi, Rittler and Weldon).
The Artists
The recording features Josh Cohen, a clarino (high trumpet) player, who is among the most sought after specialists in North America. A native of the Washington, D.C. area, Cohen performs regularly with most of North America’s leading early music ensembles and has performed as principal or solo baroque trumpet for ensembles such as Tafelmusik (Toronto), Washington Bach Consort, Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal, Arion (Montreal), Bach Sinfonia (Washington, DC), Aston Magna (Boston), Seraphic Fire (Miami), Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland), the Sebastians (NYC), Houston Bach Society, Blue Hill Bach Festival (Maine), Bach Collegium San Diego, Ensemble Telemann (Montreal), National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra (Washington, DC), Musica Maris (Rhode Island), and participated in festivals such as the Indiana Festival of Early Music, Sonoma Bach Festival, International Festival of Baroque Music at Lameque (N.B. Canada) and the Bach Festival of Montreal. Cohen will make his solo debut at the National Cathedral in May 2018 with the ensemble ACRONYM.
Cohen’s recordings of J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with Montreal-based Ensemble Caprice and J.S. Bach’s cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen with soprano Elizabeth Futral and the Washington Bach Consort received high praise. Two additional recordings were both nominated for Canadian Juno awards in 2009: “Let the Bright Seraphim” with soprano Karina Gauvin and Tempo Rubato and a recording of Vivaldi’s Gloria with Ensemble Caprice, the latter of which won the Juno award for Best Album of the Year in the vocal category. Cohen holds a M.M. from McGill University and a B.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music. This disc would mark Cohen’s first full solo recording.
Conductor Daniel Abraham is an early-music specialist who began his journey as a brass player. He was conductor and artistic director of Bach Sinfonia for twenty-one seasons and has garnered outstanding reviews in Gramophone, Fanfare, BBC Magazine, Early Music America, American Record Review, Audiophile Audition, Choral Journal and on BBC Radio 3, an astounding level of regular radio airplay including national and international broadcast on FM, Satellite, Cable, and Internet Radio, as well as performances on syndicated programs via Public Radio International and National Public. This disc will be Abraham’s sixth commercial recording. Praised not only for its artistic excellence, but also for his ground-breaking scholarship and research, Abraham has been an active leader in active rediscovery and modern premiere performances many unpublished or lesser-known works of the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Recording
In the contemporary recording and concert arena, early music performance on period instruments continues to show growth among the listening public. Whereas modern instruments were built for the power and depth of sound needed to fill large concert halls, instruments of the 17th and 18th centuries were built foremost for clarity and creating shape. Lower tension, gut strung string instruments played with lighter, shorter and more tapered bows, alongside far more distinctly colored, less homogeneous winds—larger bored, non-keyed woodwinds and natural (i.e. no valve) brasses—all contribute to a sound that is markedly differentiated from an ensemble of modern instruments. Early music specialists not only play on restored instruments of the period or faithful copies, they also study the depth of resources available concerning the idiomatic issues of their instruments (treatises, descriptions of performances, iconography, and other primary sources).
The Repertoire
Georg Philipp Telemann: Concert in D Major for Trumpet and Two Oboes
Capel Bond: Concerto No. 1 in D Major
Johann Samuel Endler: Sinfonia in F a 7
Johann Christoph Graupner: Trumpet Concerto in D major, GWV 308
Philipp Jacob Rittler: Ciaccona à7 for 2 Trumpets, Strings & Continuo
Gottfried Finger: Sonata for Trumpet and Oboe, No. 1 in C
Gottfried Reiche: “Abblassen Fanfare” from Haussmann portrait, 1727
What Your Help Will Provide
Your contribution will provide the support needed to supplement the initial funding already received from generous individuals and grants. With the changing climate in the music recording industry, artists must now seek funding to support not only personnel costs for the recording, but also all expenses associated with the production, engineering, and design.
Personnel
Twenty-three professional musicians will be paid for their work on all rehearsals and recording sessions. Your help not only supports Josh's debut recording, but also helps support the livelihood of some really incredible early-music musicians from the Washington D.C. region and the Eastern United States. The recording process is now scheduled for Jan 5-9, 2020.
Production
Both an award winning engineer and producer are signed on to oversee the production of this project. Your help will secure not only a great recording team, but will help pay for all post-production work (editing, mixing, and mastering), graphic design, printing and duplication.
Our Gratitude
This project is a labor of love. Over the years, we have all been touched by the brilliance of Josh's many live performances. While he has been featured on several award-winning recordings, this project will mark an important moment as we work to capture not only Josh's artistry as a virtuoso clarino soloist, but also put forward some ground-breaking recordings of lesser-known works.
Whether you are an early-music enthusiast, a brass instrument devotee, or just a profound patron of the arts, the final product will have a profound impact on not only Josh’s work as a solo artist, but also on the recording world. This CD, once completed, will prove to be one of the most important clarino trumpet offerings ever recorded and we hope that you will be part the process.
Giving Benefits
$150 or more
Be part of an exclusive list of patrons to receive periodic updates regarding the planning and recording of this CD
$500 or more
All the above plus
Receive a daily video update during each of the recording days
$1,000 or more
All the above plus
Receive a custom thank you video with with a personalized performance from Josh and four signed copies of the finished CD
$3,000 or more
All the above plus
Be an eye witness and receive access to one recording session to watch the process first hand!
$6,000 or more
All the above plus
Be an eye witness and receive access to all of the recording session to watch the process first hand!
$20,000 or more
All the above plus
An arranged private concert at the time of the recording with all of the personnel.
With the kindness of your gift, we look forward to making this CD reality.
Josh at practice for this CD (Abblasen by Gottfried Reiche [pitched in F])
Sprezzatura del Clarino: The High Register Baroque Trumpet (Josh Cohen, Baroque trumpet)
Help one of the world’s leading clarino trumpeters make his debut solo recording a reality.
A solo CD featuring baroque trumpet performer Josh Cohen with conductor Daniel Abraham is planned for recording in 2019 and intended for the Musica Omnia label. Featuring performances requiring extremely demanding clarino playing—baroque trumpet in its highest register—the recording promises to showcase Josh Cohen’s mastery of this once lost craft and his uncanny ability to make this treacherous work seems both easy and profoundly musical (“sprezzature”). The proposed repertoire also represents a few better-known works (Graupner, Telemann and Torelli) and selections that have received few or no previous recordings on period instruments (Bond, Endler, Finger, Grossi, Rittler and Weldon).
The Artists
The recording features Josh Cohen, a clarino (high trumpet) player, who is among the most sought after specialists in North America. A native of the Washington, D.C. area, Cohen performs regularly with most of North America’s leading early music ensembles and has performed as principal or solo baroque trumpet for ensembles such as Tafelmusik (Toronto), Washington Bach Consort, Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal, Arion (Montreal), Bach Sinfonia (Washington, DC), Aston Magna (Boston), Seraphic Fire (Miami), Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland), the Sebastians (NYC), Houston Bach Society, Blue Hill Bach Festival (Maine), Bach Collegium San Diego, Ensemble Telemann (Montreal), National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra (Washington, DC), Musica Maris (Rhode Island), and participated in festivals such as the Indiana Festival of Early Music, Sonoma Bach Festival, International Festival of Baroque Music at Lameque (N.B. Canada) and the Bach Festival of Montreal. Cohen will make his solo debut at the National Cathedral in May 2018 with the ensemble ACRONYM.
Cohen’s recordings of J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with Montreal-based Ensemble Caprice and J.S. Bach’s cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen with soprano Elizabeth Futral and the Washington Bach Consort received high praise. Two additional recordings were both nominated for Canadian Juno awards in 2009: “Let the Bright Seraphim” with soprano Karina Gauvin and Tempo Rubato and a recording of Vivaldi’s Gloria with Ensemble Caprice, the latter of which won the Juno award for Best Album of the Year in the vocal category. Cohen holds a M.M. from McGill University and a B.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music. This disc would mark Cohen’s first full solo recording.
Conductor Daniel Abraham is an early-music specialist who began his journey as a brass player. He was conductor and artistic director of Bach Sinfonia for twenty-one seasons and has garnered outstanding reviews in Gramophone, Fanfare, BBC Magazine, Early Music America, American Record Review, Audiophile Audition, Choral Journal and on BBC Radio 3, an astounding level of regular radio airplay including national and international broadcast on FM, Satellite, Cable, and Internet Radio, as well as performances on syndicated programs via Public Radio International and National Public. This disc will be Abraham’s sixth commercial recording. Praised not only for its artistic excellence, but also for his ground-breaking scholarship and research, Abraham has been an active leader in active rediscovery and modern premiere performances many unpublished or lesser-known works of the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Recording
In the contemporary recording and concert arena, early music performance on period instruments continues to show growth among the listening public. Whereas modern instruments were built for the power and depth of sound needed to fill large concert halls, instruments of the 17th and 18th centuries were built foremost for clarity and creating shape. Lower tension, gut strung string instruments played with lighter, shorter and more tapered bows, alongside far more distinctly colored, less homogeneous winds—larger bored, non-keyed woodwinds and natural (i.e. no valve) brasses—all contribute to a sound that is markedly differentiated from an ensemble of modern instruments. Early music specialists not only play on restored instruments of the period or faithful copies, they also study the depth of resources available concerning the idiomatic issues of their instruments (treatises, descriptions of performances, iconography, and other primary sources).
The Repertoire
Georg Philipp Telemann: Concert in D Major for Trumpet and Two Oboes
Capel Bond: Concerto No. 1 in D Major
Johann Samuel Endler: Sinfonia in F a 7
Johann Christoph Graupner: Trumpet Concerto in D major, GWV 308
Philipp Jacob Rittler: Ciaccona à7 for 2 Trumpets, Strings & Continuo
Gottfried Finger: Sonata for Trumpet and Oboe, No. 1 in C
Gottfried Reiche: “Abblassen Fanfare” from Haussmann portrait, 1727
What Your Help Will Provide
Your contribution will provide the support needed to supplement the initial funding already received from generous individuals and grants. With the changing climate in the music recording industry, artists must now seek funding to support not only personnel costs for the recording, but also all expenses associated with the production, engineering, and design.
Personnel
Twenty-three professional musicians will be paid for their work on all rehearsals and recording sessions. Your help not only supports Josh's debut recording, but also helps support the livelihood of some really incredible early-music musicians from the Washington D.C. region and the Eastern United States. The recording process is now scheduled for Jan 5-9, 2020.
Production
Both an award winning engineer and producer are signed on to oversee the production of this project. Your help will secure not only a great recording team, but will help pay for all post-production work (editing, mixing, and mastering), graphic design, printing and duplication.
Our Gratitude
This project is a labor of love. Over the years, we have all been touched by the brilliance of Josh's many live performances. While he has been featured on several award-winning recordings, this project will mark an important moment as we work to capture not only Josh's artistry as a virtuoso clarino soloist, but also put forward some ground-breaking recordings of lesser-known works.
Whether you are an early-music enthusiast, a brass instrument devotee, or just a profound patron of the arts, the final product will have a profound impact on not only Josh’s work as a solo artist, but also on the recording world. This CD, once completed, will prove to be one of the most important clarino trumpet offerings ever recorded and we hope that you will be part the process.
Giving Benefits
$150 or more
Be part of an exclusive list of patrons to receive periodic updates regarding the planning and recording of this CD
$500 or more
All the above plus
Receive a daily video update during each of the recording days
$1,000 or more
All the above plus
Receive a custom thank you video with with a personalized performance from Josh and four signed copies of the finished CD
$3,000 or more
All the above plus
Be an eye witness and receive access to one recording session to watch the process first hand!
$6,000 or more
All the above plus
Be an eye witness and receive access to all of the recording session to watch the process first hand!
$20,000 or more
All the above plus
An arranged private concert at the time of the recording with all of the personnel.
With the kindness of your gift, we look forward to making this CD reality.
Josh at practice for this CD (Abblasen by Gottfried Reiche [pitched in F])
Organizer
Daniel Abraham
Organizer
Washington D.C., DC
