This Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach is a special one. PPZ production captured one of the best young violinists of our time Rannveig Marta Šarc accompanied by her father, a renowned oboist, and director of Slovenian Philharmonics. It was a special moment where father and daughter came together in a beautiful baroque set and played this iconic Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor BWV 1060R by Johann Sebastian Bach. I uploaded this amazing video and audio clip on the day of her wedding in Iceland. It is a special gift of mine to Ranni and her father Matej.
Ranni exclusive on Bach series is a first-class PPZ production event. We recorded the series in a Trinity Church in Ljubljana, Slovenia in the spectacular baroque set with vibrant Orchestra matutina
Orchestra matutina
Rannveig Marta Šarc, solo violin
conductor and leader: Matej Šarc.
I. violins: Ana Dolžan, Žiga Faganel, Nikola Pajanović
II. violins: Jelena Šarc, Milena Virijević
viola: Eva Kacjan
cello: Anja Mandič Faganel
double bass: Grega Rus
harpsichord: Tomaž Sevšek
Icelandic-Slovenian violinist, Rannveig Marta Šarc, is increasingly recognized as a versatile and dynamic musician. She enjoys an active performing career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, and has performed throughout Asia, North America, and Europe. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Iceland Symphony, Slovenian Philharmonic, and Iceland Youth Symphony. As a chamber musician, she has appeared at festivals in Ravinia, Taos, Kneisel Hall, Aspen, and Thy. She has received numerous awards, including the Nerenberg Award from The Musicians Club of Women, the American Scandinavian Society Cultural Grant, and the Rotary Club Scholarship, to name a few. Rannveig holds Bachelor's and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where she was a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. Her teachers include Catherine Cho, Laurie Smukler, and Donald Weilerstein, as well as Robert Mealy on baroque violin.
This Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor is a reconstruction of the supposed original form of the concerto for two harpsichords in C Minor. In this version, each instrument makes full use of its own timbre and characteristics. In the finale, the violin clearly gets more scope than the oboe to show off its most virtuoso side, while in the second movement both instruments become closely entangled.
Max Schneider's reconstruction as a concerto for two violins in D minor was performed in 1920 at the Leipzig Bach Festival According to Max Seiffert, it makes more sense to keep the same key as the keyboard version, that is C minor when reconstructing the concerto for violin and oboe soloists.
In his preface to the 1990 second edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV), Wolfgang Schmieder proposed to add a capital "R" to a BWV number to indicate a reconstructed version of a composition that is only extant in a later version, hence reconstruction of a conjectured earlier version of the BWV 1060 concerto can be indicated as BWV 1060R. Schmieder used the 1060R catalog number for reconstruction in C minor, for oboe and violin soloists, in the 1990 version of the BWV.
Production crew
Juš Hrastnik - executive producer
Gal Nagode - production manager and light
Tadej Pernuš - camera operator
Matej Zagorc - crane operator
MB Grip group - cameras, dolly, crane, lenses
Jakob Zevnik - media manager
Adela Kožman - makeup artist
Ursulines of the Roman Union - set dressing
Taja Križnar Starčič, floral, scenography, catering
Tinkara Šubic, scenography, floral, catering
Oliver Dizdarević, balance engineer
Iztok Zupan, mastering
Juš Hrastnik - assistant director
Primož Zevnik - producer and director
Productions: TAJUS, KLOPOTEC, PPZ, Slowind Musical Society, Orchestra matutina