Return

What does it mean to return - not to repeat, but to see and hear anew? In this concert we follow a line through time: from Johann Sebastian Bach via Nadia Boulanger to Aaron Copland. For Boulanger, Bach was a living language, not a historical monument, and through her teaching this heritage was carried on and transformed in new generations - among them Copland. The evening's central work, Copland's Clarinet Concerto, carries within it both the classical and the new: a sound world that moves from quiet contemplation to jazz-inspired energy. Around this work sound pieces by Bach, Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky - as different reflections of the same question: how can tradition be renewed without losing its core? Return is about music that comes back - not as repetition, but as new understanding. Programme: Johann Sebastian Bach / Grave from Sonata No. 2 in A minor Igor Stravinsky / Apollon musagete J. S. Bach / Charles Gounod / Ave Maria Johann Sebastian Bach / Sinfonia in G major, BWV 796 Johann Sebastian Bach / Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ Johann Sebastian Bach / Invention No. 10 Johann Sebastian Bach / Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden, BWV 244 Aaron Copland / Clarinet Concerto

• Martin Fröst

RECORDINGS OF THE WORKS

Aaron Copland: Klarinettkonsert

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Charles Gounod, Johann Sebastian Bach: Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Matteuspasjonen, BWV 244

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The concert plays an excerpt of the work.

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