Badinerie

P & C 2000
Total playing time: 77´25 Min.

Arrangements of Johann Sebastian Bach's compositions for mallet instruments and orchestra.


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Content

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Italienisches Konzert F-Dur BWV 971
    1. Allegro moderato
    2. Andante
    3. Presto
  • Air aus der Overtüre Nr. 3 BWV 1068
    4. Air
  • Konzert a-Moll BWV 1041
    5. Allegro
    6. Andante
    7. Allegro assai
  • Siciliano aus der Sonate BWV 1031
    8. Siciliano
  • Konzert d-Moll BWV 1060
    9. Allegro
    10. Andante
    11. Allegro assai
  • Allegro aus der Sonate BWV 1033
    12. Allegro
  • Ouvertüre Nr.2 h-Moll BWV 1067
    13. Ouvertüre
    14. Rondeau
    15. Sarabande
    16. Bourée I et II
    17. Polonaise
    18. Menuet
    19. Badinerie
  • Zwei Chorale aus der Matthäuspassion
    20. Befiel du deinen Weg BWV 244
    Der Leib zwar in der Erden BWV 161

Instrumentalists:

Roland Härdtner - Marimba, Vibraphon
Information about Roland Härdtner's musical career can be found under "biographie".

Michael Ewers - Violine
Michael Ewers was born in 1969 in Sindelfingen. He started his musical career at the age of eight. For multiple times he was award winner at the „Wettbewerb des Deutschen Tonkünstlerbandes“ and at „Jugend Musiziert“ (Young Musician). In 1988 he became awarded with the first price of the „Carl-Flesch-Akademie“ in Baden-Baden.
Already before his studies he collected experience with an orchestra as a longtime first concertmaster of the „Landesjugendorchester Baden-Württemberg“ and of the „Sinfonieorchester des Schleswig-Holstein-Musikfestivals“ under Sergiu Celibidache, later also at the “Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Stuttgart“. Seit 1. Februar 2000 ist er koordinierter Konzertmeister des Südwestdeutschen Kammerorchesters.

Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
The signs of the „Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim“ are a stylistic variety from the old to the new music.and a fresh and tackling access to music.The ensemble has 14 musicians from seven nations and is one of the rare „fulltime chamber orchestras“. Therefore it is possible to achieve an enormous homogeneity and flexibility of the body of sound.
The orchestra was founded in 1950 by Friedrich Tilegant, a pupil of Hindemith. The ensemble found quick international appreciation and soon it could be heard at the festivals of Salzburg, Luzern and Leipzig together with musical experts like Maurice André, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Yehudi Menuhin.
The „Südwestdeutsche Kammerorchester“ recorded over 200 records and CDs and made numerous radio-recordings on its way to success. Also today it works together with soloists of an international reputation, like Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Frank Peter Zimmermann or Sabine Meyer. It toured a lot of Europe (Schleswig-Holstein-Musikfestival, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Prager Frühling, Flandern-Festival, Festival Euro Mediterraneo Rom, OsterKlang Wien) the USA and Japan.

Rolf Schweizer - Dirigent
Rolf Schweizer was born in Emmendingen (Baden) in 1936. He studied church music in Heidelberg (with Poppen, Fortner, Zimmermann, Haag and Dallmann). Whilst still at the university, he became choirmaster and organist at the Johanniskirche Mannheim. He stayed there for 10 years as a full-time church musician.
Since 1966 he has been ‚Bezirkskantor’ of the region of Pforzheim, and choirmaster and organist at the ‚Stadtkirche’, Pforzheim. In 1969 he was appointed ‚Kirchenmusikdirektor’, in 1975 ‚Landeskantor’ of Mittelbaden. Rolf Schweizer has received considerable recognition, not only as a choirmaster, particularly in the field of child and youth choirs, but has
also been in demand as a church composer for many years, composing hymns, trombone ensemble, choralmusic, cantata, oratorio, orchestral music and organ works.
In 1984 Rolf Schweizer was appointed ‚Professor’ by the state of Baden-Württemberg. In 1991 he received the ‚Ehrenring’ of the town of Pforzheim and in 1998 he became freeman of the town in which he has been working for over three decades. He has been guest lecturer at numerous Music Academies in entire Germany.
Since 2001 Rolf Schweizer has been working freelance as a referent, conductor and composer.

Info

 

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote compositions for all instruments of his time. So, the late-baroque musician was able to understand the way of playing different kinds of instruments. However, the question arises rightly, if Bach's oevre should be exclusively played on the instruments of the 18th century. It is known, that the composer was curious about all news from the instrument makers to use new instruments effectivly compositional. Long since there are adaptions of Bach's music for brass players, synthesizer, modern big orchestra and a lot of other instrumentations.

Bach 's notation was carefully observed in this arrangements, but where the string orchestra takes over the function of the basso continuo with the corresponding chords, the notation was added in Bach's style.

Although it is known that Johann Sebastian Bach was able to compose very sensitively for the specific solo instruments, it is clearly noticeable in this recording that the take-over of the solo voice by the marimba or the vibraphone does not blur the structures of Bach's music, in fact it comes to light even more, especially in the rhythm section.

However, the CD „Badinerie“ doesn't want to provoke a confrontation regarding the for and against of the instrumentation of Bach's compostions, but rather to offer other aspects of listening to Bach's music to „nosy ears“.
Johann Sebastian Bach has a strong emanation in every instrumentation, based on his polyphonic worked-throug movement and his consistent alignment. Therefore it can be expected, that the „Klangrede of Bach“ can be noticed again and unexpected also in this instrumentation.

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