Anton Webern: “Orchestration of the six-part ricercar from the Musical Offering of J. S. Bach”
Webern Complete Works Opp. 1-31
Anton Webern: “Orchestration of the six-part ricercar from the Musical Offering of J. S. Bach” (1935) Conducted by Pierre Boulez, 1969 - from the album Webern Complete Works Opp. 1-31
“In 1935 Webern took a break from his pioneering 12-tone compositions and decided to orchestrate the six-voice ricercar (a rigorous contrapuntal form that was a predecessor to the fugue) from J.S. Bach’s remarkable late work The Musical Offering of 1747. Because Bach had not specified the instrumentation of the piece, it made the perfect medium for Webern’s unprecedented experiment in orchestration. The melodic lines are broken into fragments and passed continuously from instrument to instrument, creating a shimmering, prismatic garb for Bach’s polyphonic web of voices.
A wonder what some creative orchestration can do! Webern’s treatment turns this Bach work into a whole other animal…
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Webern’s arrangement...Offering. I wonder what...would have...
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A wonder what some creative orchestration can do!...treatment turns this Bach work
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Conducted by Pierre Boulez, 1969 - from
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