Liana Mosca collaborates with

Cantica Symphonia & Lorenzo Cavasanti

In 2023, the Spanish record label Glossa released an album dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach's Concertos for Recorder, featuring Lorenzo Cavasanti and Liana Mosca as soloists, accompanied by the Cantica Symphonia ensemble led by Giuseppe Maletto.

The recording project aims to be a starting point for bringing this repertoire to Italian and international stages and festivals.

The album in brief

Although Bach obviously felt at home composing for the recorder and used it in important works such as the Brandenburg Concertos and several cantatas, he never composed a concerto for solo recorder - in fact, he only wrote original solo concertos for harpsichord and violin. The lack of solo concertos for the recorder can be remedied, however: it is precisely his concertos for harpsichord that Bach demonstrably transcribed himself, although it is not always clear for which of the missing originals they were intended. Even if in some cases other instruments are more likely, it is at least not objectionable to play some of these concertos with recorder. The ensemble Cantica Symphonia has chosen Bach’s Concertos BWV 1053 in D major and BWV 1055 in A major for its recorder player Lorenzo Cavasanti, while violinist Liana Mosca plays the concerto BWV 1056 in G minor. Both together play the Concerto BWV 1060 in C minor, originally for two harpsichords.