Bach/Webern

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..."

Tao bonito...! :| :)