The Brandenburg Project - Dausgaard
BIS BIS 2199 (3 discs)
Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid
Classical - Orchestral
Bach: 6 Brandenburg Concertos
Turnage: Maya
Mackey: Triceros
Hillborg: Bach Materia
Neuwith: Aello - Ballet mécanomorphe
Caine: Hamsa
Dean: Approach - Prelude to a Canon
Fiona Kelly & Claire Chase (flutes)
Marten Larsson (oboe)
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Antje Weithaas & Pekka Kuusisto (violins)
Tabea Zimmermann & Brett Dean (violas)
Maya Beiser (cello)
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Uri Caine (piano)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
Along with Vivaldi's 'Seasons' or Beethoven's 'Fifth', Bach's Brandenburg Concertos belong to those works that are so well-known that we risk taking them for granted. In order to (re-) discover the special qualities that can inspire us today, in 2001 Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra decided to contact six contemporary composer, asking each of them to compose a companion piece to one of the concertos. Seventeen years later, in 2018, it was time to present the result, with a performance at the BBC Proms of all the works - new and old.
Recorded over a period of 18 months leading up to this event, the present boxed set provides a unique opportunity to experience six very different musical minds and idioms entering into conversation with Bach: Mark-Anthony Turnage, Steven Mackey, Anders Hillborg, Olga Neuwirth, Uri Caine and Brett Dean. Bach's concertos are remarkable in that they are all scored for different instrumental combinations, and part of the brief to the group of composers was to reflect this. In her Aello, Olga Neuwirth has for instance used several 'instruments' to stand in for Bach's harpsichord, including a synthesizer, a milk frother and a typewriter. Brett Dean, on the other hand, has stayed very close to Bach's instrumentation, but has chosen to write his work as a preparation for Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 - an Approachto Bach's extremely tight canonic writing.
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- Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051
- Uri Caine: Hamsa
- Brett Dean: Approach - Prelude to a Canon (2017)
- Anders Hillborg: Bach Materia
- Steven Mackey: Triceros
- Olga Neuwirth: Aello - Ballet mécanomorphe
- Mark-Anthony Turnage: Maya
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