Berlin Philharmonic Brass Ensemble
Budapest Spring Festival - The instrumentalists who work in the best symphonic orchestras are all artists with soloist qualities, whose performance of any concerto will be world-class
That said, they also own – perhaps uniquely – the kind of special sensitivity, smoothness and flexibility that mark chamber musicians, allowing the ensemble in which they play sound like a single instrument. The Berliner Philharmoniker, one of the world’s three best orchestras, is also an ensemble: its flautists, clarinet players, bassoonists and oboists make an essential contribution to the “Berlin miracle.”
Supplemented with the horns, the woodwind section now takes to the stage as a self-subsistent ensemble – being one of the distinguished orchestra’s thirty-four chamber groups. Their programme comprises delightful arrangements of light-hearted pieces from musical history, from the Renaissance, through Baroque and Romanticism, to contemporary music.
These great pieces allow this ensemble, which is special in many regards, to show its unique capabilities independently of its mother orchestra.
Handel: Samson, HWV 57 – Let the Bright Seraphim (arranged by Martin Wagenmann)
Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74 – Eternal Source (arranged by Martin Wagenmann)
Handel: Fireworks Suite, HWV 351 – La Réjouissance (arranged by Martin Wagenmann)
Bach: Jesus bleibet meine Freude – chorale overture (arranged by Enrique Crespo)
Bach: Bist du bei mir – chorale overture (arranged by Alfred Lauss)
Dowland: Four Renaissance Dances (arranged by Olaf Ott)
Rossini: The Barber of Seville – Dunque io son (arranged by Sándor Balogh)
Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No. 2 (arranged by Mogens Andresen and Daniel Drage)
Richards: Homage to the Noble Grape
Gade: Jealousy Tango (arranged by Richard Bissill)
Miller: Glenn Miller Story (arranged by Olaf Ott)
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