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Bach/Webern Ricercar - Dohnányi, Philharmonia

J.S. Bach Orchestrated by Anton Webern Ricercar from "The Musical Offering" Philharmonia Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi BBC Proms, August 2007 Royal Albert Hall, London From a Proms concert review: "The Musical Offering was written at the bidding of Frederick the Great in 1747. Anton Webern took the second Ricercar in 1934-5 and recolored it with his own orchestration. The result is a curious blend of 20th and 18th Century sounds, atonality constantly threatening to burst through the formality of Bach's fugue, rather like a monster in a sci-fi movie ripping off its human face to reveal the alien beneath..."

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