Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major BWV 1048 (around 1714)
Igor Strawinsky
»Concerto en Ré« for string orchestra »Basle« (1946)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Octet in E-flat major for four violins, two violas and two celli (1825)
- Jana Andraschke Violin
- Anna Isabel Haakh Violin
- William Grigg Violin
- Liz Macintosh Violin
- Martina Horejsi-Kiefer Viola
- Antje Kaufmann Viola
- Gerhard Dierig Viola
- Daniel Raabe Violoncello
- Joachim Griesheimer Violoncello
- Sylvia Borg-Bujanowski Violoncello
- Roderick Shaw Harpsichord
- Henning Rasche Double bass
Three times three at eye level: an interplay of forces, a wonderful balancing act arises from a cambiata, a changing note, in Bach’s probably most famous Brandenburg Concerto. Two times four: on the wings of Goethe’s Faust, Felix Mendelssohn lifts to a flight through the clouds with his Octet, a marvel of the Romantic era. Stravinsky’s Concerto in D: »They’ll see right away that it has three movements. Don’t you want to allow them the pleasure of discovering it themselves?«
