The music world celebrated a very special anniversary in 2023: Johann Sebastian Bach was appointed Thomaskantor in Leipzig three hundred years ago. In retrospect, Bach’s appointment at the Leipzig city church was a continuation of his successful career to date, even if he was not first choice for the post. Bach’s music has almost always delighted its audience, both in the past, as with its revival by Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn, and today in countless concert series, festivals, music ensembles and other organisations that bear his name, our project among them! As a recorder player, Andreas Kammenos have much to thank Bach for. He can show off his instrument to more than orchestral advantage in wonderful cantatas. As a musician, he can justify taking on the repertoire of other instruments when he looks at how he arranged other composers’ works and recycled his own. If you compare some of his keyboard concertos with his concertos for violin you will soon see that it is practically identical music. On this CD the musicians have recorded a number of works that were not originally intended for recorder players and their audiences. What Bach did 300 years ago can work just as well today, particularly if the instruments are related. After all, Bach himself was studying and learning all his life! The focus here will be on one place he studied music, the Hanseatic port of Lübeck. What might Bach have heard to make him stay four months instead of the three weeks he had planned? Which musicians made Lübeck a place that might have cost Johann Sebastian Bach his post as an organist in Thuringia?