Dynamic Organ & Brass: Saint-Saëns & Gabrieli
In person: $33 ($10 student/ages 12-18, $5 ages 5-11) |
Stream: $5-$100 sliding scale
- Bert Landman, organ
Samuel Scheidt — Selected works
Daniel Speer — Sonate für 4 Posaunen
Andreas Berger — Canzon octavi toni a8
Felix Mendelssohn — 2 Geistliche Chöre, Op.115
Giovanni Gabrieli — Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10, Ch. 180
Johann Sebastian Bach — Jesu, nun sei gepreiset ("Jesus, now be praised"), BWV 41
Benedetto Marcello — Psalm 18: I Cieli immensi narrano ("The Heavens are telling")
Tielman Susato — The Danserye (selections)
Paul Dukas — Fanfare from La Péri
Johann Gottfried Walther — Concerto for organ in G minor (del Signor Luigi Manzia), LV 132
Camille Saint-Saëns — Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 "Organ Symphony" ("Adagio" & "Finale"; arr. brass & organ)
Camille Saint-Saëns and Giovanni Gabrieli, two dynamic composers, are separated in time by over two hundred years. Both straddled two distinct musical eras that marked both of their prodigious outpourings. Saint-Saëns, a child music prodigy, was a great admirer of the modern music of his day. His orchestral works pay much homage to the giants that came before him including Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. He composed his Symphony No. 3—a majestic showstopper, popularly known as the "Organ Symphony"—in 1886 at the artistic peak of his career. It would be his last symphony. About the work, Saint-Saëns wrote, "I gave everything to it I was able to give." Bach in Baltimore's performance will be a powerful arrangement of this work for brass ensemble and organ. Find out why Saint-Saëns famously said: "What I have here accomplished I will never achieve again." Like Saint-Saëns, Gabrieli also straddled two eras: the end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Baroque. His polytonal brass works are beloved by modern brass players for their ambitious and grandiose sound fit to fill the multiple choir lofts at Venice's St. Mark’s Basilica. You won’t want to miss this vibrant pairing of colorful, pulsating music from across the ages, recreated with virtuoso brass stationed all around the performance site.
About Bach in Baltimore
Bach in Baltimore’s mission is to perform the choral and instrumental works of Johann Sebastian Bach (and his contemporaries) and to educate the concert-going public about the musical language of Bach and the texts he chose to set to music.
We strive each month to present these works in a historically informed way that will enrich the lives of our audience members and inspire creativity. We wish to foster an appreciation for the arts, particularly for Baroque music, within the entire community. We are committed to providing educational experiences for people of all ages in order to instill a lifelong connection Bach’s music.
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