Webern: Complete Published String Quartets - Bach: The Art of Fugue Richter Ensemble

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080:
• 1 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus I (Version for String Ensemble) 03:18
• 2 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus II (Version for String Ensemble) 02:59
• 3 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus III (Version for String Ensemble) 02:44
• 4 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus IV (Version for String Ensemble) 03:01
• Anton Webern (1883 - 1945): 5 Sätze, Op. 5:
• 5 Webern: 5 Sätze, Op. 5: I. Heftig bewegt 02:48
• 6 Webern: 5 Sätze, Op. 5: II. Sehr langsam 02:30
• 7 Webern: 5 Sätze, Op. 5: III. Sehr bewegt 00:46
• 8 Webern: 5 Sätze, Op. 5: IV. Sehr langsam 01:38
• 9 Webern: 5 Sätze, Op. 5: V. In zarter Bewegung 03:17
• Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080:
• 10 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus V (Version for String Ensemble) 03:23
• 11 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus VI a 4 in stylo francese (Version for String Ensemble) 03:16
• 12 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus VII a 4 per augmentationem et diminutionem (Version for String Ensemble) 03:31
• Anton Webern: 6 Bagatellen, Op. 9:
• 13 Webern: 6 Bagatellen, Op. 9: I. Mäßig 00:36
• 14 Webern: 6 Bagatellen, Op. 9: II. Leicht bewegt 00:29
• 15 Webern: 6 Bagatellen, Op. 9: III. Ziemlich fließend 00:20
• 16 Webern: 6 Bagatellen, Op. 9: IV. Sehr langsam 00:55
• 17 Webern: 6 Bagatellen, Op. 9: V. Äußerst langsam 01:14
• 18 Webern: 6 Bagatellen, Op. 9: VI. Fließend 00:42
• Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080:
• 19 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus VIII a 3 (Version for String Ensemble) 04:28
• 20 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus IX a 4 alla duodecima (Version for String Ensemble) 02:25
• 21 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus X a 4 alla decima (Version for String Ensemble) 04:00
• 22 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus XI a 4 (Version for String Ensemble) 04:01
• Anton Webern: String Quartet, Op. 28:
• 23 Webern: String Quartet, Op. 28: I. Mäßig 04:01
• 24 Webern: String Quartet, Op. 28: II. Gemächlich 01:45
• 25 Webern: String Quartet, Op. 28: III. Sehr fließend 02:13
• Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080:
• 26 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus inversus XII a 4. Forma recta (Version for String Ensemble) 02:12
• 27 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus inversus XII a 4. Forma inversa (Version for String Ensemble) 02:25
• 28 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus inversus XIII a 3. Forma recta (Version for String Ensemble) 02:16
• 29 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus inversus XIII a 3. Forma inversa (Version for String Ensemble) 02:19
• 30 Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus XIV. Fuga a 3 soggetti (Version for String Ensemble) 07:45
• Total Runtime 01:17:17

Info for Webern: Complete Published String Quartets - Bach: The Art of Fugue

Mit der Gegenüberstellung von Johann Sebastian Bach und Anton Webern möchte das Richter Ensemble verborgene Zusammenhänge zwischen den beiden Komponisten deutlich machen. Vorgestellt werden Bachs Kunst der Fuge und Werke für Streichquartett von Webern. Das Ensemble ermöglicht durch die Interpretation dieser Werke auf Darmsaiten eine faszinierend neue Perspektive und eine einzigartige Klangwelt.

Richter Ensemble

Richter Ensemble
is a new chamber music initiative in which the members share a mutual passion for bold artistic expression. Emphasising flexibility and freedom, the group works mainly as a string quartet, but can expand to a larger chamber orchestra. It is fervent about highlighting hidden connections in music ranging from the 17th to the 21st centuries, demonstrated through its innovative programming. Benefitting from members' vast experiences of performing with leading period ensembles, the Richter Ensemble presents a fresh palette of colors by playing uniquely on gut strings. It seeks to bring spontaneity and new light to every performance and is enthusiastic about collaborating with artists from other fields such as dance and visual media (i.e. projections, installations, art exhibitions, and film). The ensemble has a particular affinity for music from Fin-de-siècle and the Second Viennese School, and strives to reintroduce that music to audiences through a new lens.

Richter Ensemble gave its first concert with a programme of late Beethoven’s string quartets and music by Biber at the Refractions Festival at Owlpen Manor (UK) in the Fall of 2017. Enthusiastically received, it has since performed widely in the United Kingdom, Europe, Brazil and the United States. In the 2018-19 season the ensemble toured Southern California, Massachusetts, appeared at the Spokane Bach Festival (USA), and served as quartet-in-residence at the Oficina Música de Curitiba (Brazil) and at San Diego’s summer festival Opera NEO (USA). Highlights of the 2019-20 include concerts and masterclasses in Los Angeles (USA), return appearances in Brazil and the UK, and the ensemble debut at the Great Lakes Music Festival (USA) and the Kretinga Early Music Festival in Lithuania.

In 2018 the Richter Ensemble embarked on a project of recording the complete Second Viennese School string quartets on gut strings, thereby proposing a unique interpretation of that repertory.

“It was a musical experience at once fiercely stimulating and deeply relaxing.”

“We could hear clearly the subtleties of every player, and the incredibly imaginative and expressive turn of every phrase of Bach’s inexhaustible invention.” The Spokesman Review, Spokane WA

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