The Brandenburg Project Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046:
• 1 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046: I. — 03:36
• 2 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046: II. Adagio 03:41
• 3 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046: III. Allegro 04:22
• 4 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046: IV. Menuet 06:30
• Mark-Anthony Turnage (b. 1960):
• 5 Turnage: Maya 14:35
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047:
• 6 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047: I. — 04:41
• 7 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047: II. Andante 03:19
• 8 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047: III. Allegro assai 02:32
• Steven Mackey (b. 1956):
• 9 Mackey: Triceros 18:39
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047:
• 10 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 (Excerpts): I. — 05:29
• Anders Hillborg (b. 1954):
• 11 Hillborg: Very Tender (After Bach's BWV 1048) 01:06
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047:
• 12 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 (Excerpts): III. Allegro 04:44
• Anders Hillborg: Hillborg: Bach materia (After Bach's BWV 1048):
• 13 Hillborg: Bach materia (After Bach's BWV 1048): Beginning 06:50
• 14 Hillborg: Bach materia (After Bach's BWV 1048): Cadenza (1) 03:07
• 15 Hillborg: Bach materia (After Bach's BWV 1048): Bar 110 05:48
• 16 Hillborg: Bach materia (After Bach's BWV 1048): Cadenza (2) 03:02
• 17 Hillborg: Bach materia (After Bach's BWV 1048): Bar 191 03:32
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049:
• 18 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049: I. Allegro 06:46
• 19 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049: II. Andante 03:24
• 20 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049: III. Presto 04:32
• Olga Neuwirth (b. 1968): Neuwirth: Aello:
• 21 Neuwirth: Aello: I. — 08:05
• 22 Neuwirth: Aello: II. — 05:07
• 23 Neuwirth: Aello: III. — 03:42
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050:
• 24 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050: I. Allegro 09:32
• 25 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050: II. Affettuoso 04:54
• 26 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050: III. Allegro 05:12
• Uri Caine (b. 1956): Caine: Hamsa:
• 27 Caine: Hamsa: I. Fast 11:17
• 28 Caine: Hamsa: II. Adagio 09:55
• 29 Caine: Hamsa: III. Vivace 09:25
• Brett Dean (b. 1961): Dean: Approach (Prelude to a Canon):
• 30 Dean: Approach (Prelude to a Canon): I. Allegro impetuoso, volatile 03:21
• 31 Dean: Approach (Prelude to a Canon): II. Calm, Serene 05:08
• 32 Dean: Approach (Prelude to a Canon): III. Slightly Agitated Though Unhurried 04:21
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1051:
• 33 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1051: I. — 05:25
• 34 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1051: II. Adagio, ma non tanto 04:42
• 35 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1051: III. Allegro 05:48
• Total Runtime 03:26:09

Info for The Brandenburg Project

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 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.

Marten Larsson, oboe
Lisa Almberg, oboe
Daniel Burstedt, oboe
Mikael Lindstrom, bassoon
Terése Larsson, horn
Göran Hülphers, horn
Antje Weithaas, violin
Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

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Booklet for The Brandenburg Project