Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – The Brandenburg Project (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – The Brandenburg Project (2021)
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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 composers, 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 Approach to Bach’s extremely tight canonic writing. In performing the twelve works the orchestra and Dausgaard are joined by leading soloists including Clare Chase, Mahan Esfahani, Håkan Hardenberger, Pekka Kuusisto and Tabea Zimmermann.

Tracklist:
01. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046: I. — (03:36)
02. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046: II. Adagio (03:41)
03. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046: III. Allegro (04:22)
04. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046: IV. Menuet (06:30)
05. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Turnage: Maya (14:35)
06. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047: I. — (04:41)
07. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047: II. Andante (03:19)
08. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047: III. Allegro assai (02:32)
09. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Mackey: Triceros (18:39)
10. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 (Excerpts): I. — (05:29)
11. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Hillborg: Very Tender (After Bach’s BWV 1048) (01:06)
12. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 (Excerpts): III. Allegro (04:44)
13. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Hillborg: Bach materia (After Bach’s BWV 1048): Beginning (06:50)
14. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Hillborg: Bach materia (After Bach’s BWV 1048): Cadenza (03:07)
15. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Hillborg: Bach materia (After Bach’s BWV 1048): Bar 110 (05:48)
16. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Hillborg: Bach materia (After Bach’s BWV 1048): Cadenza (03:02)
17. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Hillborg: Bach materia (After Bach’s BWV 1048): Bar 191 (03:32)
18. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049: I. Allegro (06:46)
19. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049: II. Andante (03:24)
20. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049: III. Presto (04:32)
21. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Neuwirth: Aello: I. — (08:05)
22. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Neuwirth: Aello: II. — (05:07)
23. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Neuwirth: Aello: III. — (03:42)
24. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050: I. Allegro (09:32)
25. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050: II. Affettuoso (04:54)
26. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050: III. Allegro (05:12)
27. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Caine: Hamsa: I. Fast (11:17)
28. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Caine: Hamsa: II. Adagio (09:55)
29. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Caine: Hamsa: III. Vivace (09:25)
30. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Dean: Approach (Prelude to a Canon): I. Allegro impetuoso, volatile (03:21)
31. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Dean: Approach (Prelude to a Canon): II. Calm, Serene (05:08)
32. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Dean: Approach (Prelude to a Canon): III. Slightly Agitated Though Unhurried (04:21)
33. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1051: I. — (05:25)
34. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1051: II. Adagio, ma non tanto (04:42)
35. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1051: III. Allegro (05:48)

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