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Bach/Webern Ricercar - Dohnányi, Philharmonia

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J.S. Bach Orchestrated by Anton Webern Ricercar from "The Musical Offering" Philharmonia Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi BBC Proms, August 2007 Royal Albert Hall, London From a Proms concert review: "The Musical Offering was written at the bidding of Frederick the Great in 1747. Anton Webern took the second Ricercar in 1934-5 and recolored it with his own orchestration. The result is a curious blend of 20th and 18th Century sounds, atonality constantly threatening to burst through the formality of Bach's fugue, rather like a monster in a sci-fi movie ripping off its human face to reveal the alien beneath..."

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Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm
Author: gab1279

Length: 07:29
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BARREDA1976 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
This is out of this world! beautiful beyond words!
Xear0 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
you are right I guess I am `stuck` in the preservation of the original score as you said. I am trying to listen to modern classical music more and more to broaden my musical `tolerance`. I hope you understood, I am not used to discuss music in english !
guitars2112 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
i agree to an extent; it feels very disjointed. however, i think you are too concerned with the preservation of the original counterpoint and aren't appreciating the fantastic dichotomy of baroque music and 20th century orchestration.
Xear0 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
one of the final fugues Bach ever wrote. the chromatic subject is not his, so this piece shows what he was capable of after years of maturity and hard work. this recording puts an emphasisis on the beauty of the harmony, but kills the ricercar, as the subject is broken down between two instruments. even if the lines are not preserved, it is still a masterful interpretation, which sadly lacks the understanding of the fugue.
zurzica51 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
what a tremendous orquestration... devine :) thanks for the vídeo
rustydog1236 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
That's the point! and why Webern, as a man of exquisite taste, orchestrated it!
Emar4 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
It's easier to 'enjoy Bach' when you're listening to someone playing him as if he were human and not some abstract weird counterpoint nut with a huge powdered wig. It took me a while to understand it, too.
bradleighstockwell (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
Tons of music never worked for me until someone said, "Here, try THIS - tell me what you think." I loved Mahler and hated Berg until I was dragged to a performance of "Wozzek." What keeps most people away is the Greatest Hits stuff which is usually easy and tame or dull. I couldn't stand string quartets until I heard the Grosse Fuge. I didn't "get" Bach until I heard the more obscure Stokowski transcriptions. Sinatra? Revolting until a girlfriend showed me the pre-"My Way" Sinatra.
DBJ06 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
Lol. The chinese violinist is so expresive,, lol
Altofirebird (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
Yeah, I am slowly giving Bach more of a go- I mean, in terms of sitting down and enjoying his music. I guess that style/period is not really something I connect with straight off the bat.

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