J. S. Bach, Telemann & Albinoni: Concerti Sophie Gent, Kathleen Kajioka, Ensemble Masques & Olivier Fortin

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041:
• 1 J.S.Bach: Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041: I. […] 03:57
• 2 J.S.Bach: Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041: II. Andante 05:15
• 3 J.S.Bach: Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041: III. Allegro assai 03:39
• Tomaso Albinoni (1671 - 1751): String Sonata à 5 in G Major, Op. 2 No. 1:
• 4 Albinoni: String Sonata à 5 in G Major, Op. 2 No. 1: I. Grave-Adagio 01:26
• 5 Albinoni: String Sonata à 5 in G Major, Op. 2 No. 1: II. Allegro 02:13
• 6 Albinoni: String Sonata à 5 in G Major, Op. 2 No. 1: III. Adagio 02:28
• 7 Albinoni: String Sonata à 5 in G Major, Op. 2 No. 1: III. Allegro assai 01:48
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767): Viola Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G9:
• 8 Telemann: Viola Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G9: I. Largo 03:40
• 9 Telemann: Viola Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G9: II. Allegro 02:53
• 10 Telemann: Viola Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G9: III. Andante 03:29
• 11 Telemann: Viola Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G9: IV. Presto 03:44
• Tomaso Albinoni: String Sonata à 5 in G Minor, Op. 2 No. 11:
• 12 Albinoni: String Sonata à 5 in G Minor, Op. 2 No. 11: I. Adagio 02:24
• 13 Albinoni: String Sonata à 5 in G Minor, Op. 2 No. 11: II. Allegro 02:31
• 14 Albinoni: String Sonata à 5 in G Minor, Op. 2 No. 11: III. Grave 02:20
• 15 Albinoni: String Sonata à 5 in G Minor, Op. 2 No. 11: IV. Allegro 02:11
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042:
• 16 J.S.Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042: I. Allegro 08:01
• 17 J.S.Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042: II. Adagio 06:14
• 18 J.S.Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042: III. Allegro assai 02:51
• Total Runtime 01:01:04

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„Wir wollten schon lange die Violinkonzerte von Bach mit Sophie Gent aufnehmen, die seit 2003 zum Ensemble Masques gehört“, sagt Olivier Fortin, Cembalist und Gründer des Ensembles, das sich mit großer Leidenschaft der Barockmusik widmet. „Sophie ist eine außergewöhnliche Musikerin mit einem äußerst überzeugenden, ehrlichen und unprätentiösen Stil“. Eine weitere Stütze des Ensembles ist Kathleen Kajioka, die Solistin von Telemanns Bratschenkonzert in diesem Programm. „Telemann ist ein fantastischer Geschichtenerzähler“, sagt sie, "er liefert eine Handlung, Charaktere, Kostüme und Requisiten - und überlässt es Ihnen, das alles zusammenzufügen". Die Sinfonien von Albinoni verbinden die Konzerte und stellen jeden Musiker des Ensembles ins Rampenlicht.

Sophie Gent, Violine
Kathleen Kajioka, Viola
Ensemble Masques
Olivier Fortin, Cembalo, Leitung

Sophie Gent
Australian-born violinist Sophie Gent studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Ryo Terakado. She has since become one of Europe’s most highly regarded baroque violinists, and is extremely active as a soloist, orchestral leader, chamber musician and teacher.

She is concertmaster with Ensemble Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon) and the Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot). She has also lead the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent, Barokkanerne (Oslo), Les Muffatti (Belgium), and Genesis Baroque (Australia). In chamber music formations she works regularly with Ensemble Masques, Ensemble Arcangelo (Jonathan Cohen), Il Convito (Maude Gratton), le Caravansérail (Bertrand Cuiller), and with Kris Bezuidenhuit and Jean Rondeau. She was teacher of baroque violin for several years at the Amsterdam Conservatorium, as well as at the CRR Boulogne- Billancourt, and currently teaches at The Early Music Academy in Vannes (vemi.fr) and Cluny Early Music Workshop (ensemblemasques.org). Sophie plays a violin by Jacob Stainer from 1676. She lives in the Charente, France.

Sophie joined Genesis Baroque in 2019 to perform and record the entire Concerti Grossi, Opus 6 of Arcangelo Corelli alongside founding Music Director, Lucinda Moon (released in 2020 by ABC Classic). Sophie returned to work with the ensemble in 2023 to direct and solo in two programs, and has since joined Genesis Baroque as the ensemble’s Principal Guest Director.

Kathleen Kajioka
has come to broadcasting from a rich and varied career as a performing artist. As a violinist and violist, she has gained a reputation as a musical multi-linguist, moving between worlds with agility and depth. From the Classical Music establishment to the World Music scene, from Early Music to New Music to Pop, Kathleen’s activities have taken her across Canada, the US and Europe.

Kathleen’s extensive list of credits includes regular performances with Tafelmusik, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Maza Meze, the COC, Opera Atelier, Toronto Masque Theatre, and Arion Baroque, as well as with Pacific Baroque, Capriccio Stravagante, and in Iceland as guest concertmaster of the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra and the Skálholt Bach Consort.

Kathleen is a member of the Early Music chamber group, Ensemble Masques, with whom she has performed across North America and Europe, including appearances at New York’s Frick Collection, Washington’s National Gallery, Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw and London’s Wigmore Hall. Their recent recordings, J.H. Schmelzer – Sacro-Profanus, and Romanus Weichlein, have received wide critical acclaim, including Gramophone Magazine’s “Editor’s Choice” and the Diapason d’Or. She teaches Historical Performance at Royal Conservatory of Music’s Glenn Gould school.

Enjoying occasional forays into the world of Pop, Kathleen has rubbed shoulders with the likes of K-os, Bjork, Sarah Slean, Royal Wood, Feist, Smokey Robinson, Barbra Streisand and Olivia Newton John, to name a few.

In 2007, Kathleen joined the line-up at The New Classical FM, bringing her extensive musical experiences to bear as host of A Little Night Music, where night-owls enjoy her irreverent, insider’s view on the world of Classical Music. She is also host of the popular prime-time show, Dinner Classics, heard Saturday evenings, as well as Sunday Night at the TSO. Kathleen has written and hosted several features, and has served as an arts reporter — “Musician-at-Large” — for the New Classical FM news. She has been a featured speaker at Moses Znaimer’s ideacity, and at Roy Thomson Hall’s “Share the Music.” Her recent leap into the world of television, as host of “The Concert Series,” can be seen on Vision TV.

Ensemble Masques
Renowned as much for its expressiveness and vitality as for its integrity and precision, the Masques ensemble fully embodies the multiplicity of the Baroque spirit. The core members of the ensemble each have a career as a soloist and performer with prestigious international early music ensembles. They are regularly joined by other instrumentalists who share the same desire to showcase the full expressive potential of the repertoire they perform.

Since its inception, the Ensemble Masques has deliberately chosen to explore different repertoires from the 17th and 18th centuries, rather than confining itself to a single style or genre. This curiosity, inseparable from its identity, reflects the reality of composition in the Baroque era, when influences crossed and mixed. This has led the Ensemble to explore 17th-century German music in greater depth, to reveal Telemann’s universalism and humanism, and to take an interest in the initiatory journey of the ‘Grand Tour’. All these artistic choices are underpinned by a taste for exchange, mixture, borrowing and cross-fertilisation, as evidenced by the variety of nationalities of the musicians who make up the Ensemble.

The Ensemble Masques regularly takes part in concert series and festivals in Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium. It has also toured in most of the major centres in Canada and the United States, including New York, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Los Angeles. His upcoming projects include concerts at the Folles Journées de Nantes and the Via Aeterna Festival, at the Cité de la Voix de Vézelay, at the Festival d’opéra baroque de Beaune, at the Festival de musique ancienne d’Utrecht, at the Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, at the AMUZ, at the Hamburg Philharmonic, and many more.

An exclusive artist of the ALPHA label, his numerous recordings have been unanimously acclaimed by critics, receiving the Diapason d’Or, the ffff of Telerama, the ‘Chocs’ of Classica as well as the ‘Editor’s Choice’ and the ‘Gramophone Award’ of Gramophone Magazine. In July 2025, a recording of J.S. Bach’s violin concertos, performed by the violinist Sophie Gent, followed in early 2026 by a CD devoted to transcriptions for two harpsichords of Baroque instrumental music with Olivier Fortin and Emmanuel Frankenberg. In November 2025, the Ensemble Masques will record a programme of instrumental music by Jean-Philippe Rameau, to be released in 2027.

The Ensemble is supported by the DRAC Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, the Saône et Loire department, the CNM, the SPEDIDAM and the ADAMI. Ensemble Masques is a member of the FEVIS and PROFEDIM.

Olivier Fortin
graduated with distinction from the Québec Conservatory in 1995. He continued his training with Dom André Laberge, obtained a Master Degree from University of Montreal under the direction of Réjean Poirier, and received several scholarships for studies in Paris with Pierre Hantai and in Amsterdam with Bob van Asperen.

In 1997 he was awarded top prizes at the Montreal Bach Competition and the Bruges Festival. Olivier Fortin is in demand as a soloist and chamber musician, touring and recording throughout Europe, China and South Korea, the United States and Canada with Masques, Capriccio Stravagante and Tafelmusik.

He also performs with Skip Sempé and Pierre Hantaï in programs of music for two and three harpsichords. From 2004-08 he taught harpsichord and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec, and he currently teaches at the Tafelmusik Summer Institute in Toronto.

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