The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s newest season download through Deutsche Grammophon’s Digital DG Concerts Series
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On December 4th, 2007, as the opening event in its December Baroque Festival, the Chamber Music Society presented J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue in an arrangement for string quartet and wind quintet performed by the Orion String Quartet (Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips, violins; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello), and Windscape (Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Randall Ellis, oboe; Alan R. Kay, clarinet; Frank Morelli, bassoon, David Jolley, horn). The New York Times called the ensemble “nine of the finest musicians on the society’s roster” and praised the arrangement for how it “served the work with unfailing musicality.”
On February 19th, Deutsche Grammophon releases this recording as a digital-exclusive as part of the label’s DG Concerts series of recordings. Bach: The Art of Fugue represents The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s 4th release on DG Concerts.
Bach’s monumental The Art of Fugue (1742-1749), was the final product of his incomparable genius. The work is a collection of 22 fugues and canons all developed out of a single theme. The composer did not specify any instrumentation for this piece, but the arrangement presented on this occasion for mixed strings and winds by Samuel Baron (c. 1960), offers a particularly effective realization by highlighting Bach’s individual lines through distinct instrumental voices.
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The First Three Releases
The first project of the new DG Concerts collaboration features one of this season’s most stimulating and critically acclaimed CMS programs. The three chamber sonatas of a planned cycle of six that Claude Debussy was able to compose before his death in 1918 are coupled with the “completion” of the French master’s ambitious project by three of the most exciting creative voices on the current musical scene: French composer Marc-André Dalbavie, Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, and American composer Steven Stucky.
Download DG Concerts – Chamber Music of Debussy, Stucky, Saariaho, and Dalbavie
The second release was entitled Baroque Collection. This concert was recorded at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on December 8th and 10th as part of the Chamber Music Society’s Baroque Festival concert series. Works on the program are from Telemann, Handel, Bach, and Vivaldi.
Download DG Concerts – A Baroque Festival: Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, & Telemann
The third concert features two seminal chamber works and masterpieces of Eastern European music: Bartok’ Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano from 1938 with Erin Keefe, violin, Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet and Gilles Vonsattel, piano; and Dvorák’s Piano Quintet in A major Op. 81 from 1887 with Wu Han, piano, Yoon Kwon and Erin Keefe, violins, Beth Guterman, viola, Efe Baltacigil, cello and Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet.
Download DG Concerts – Bartok: Contrasts – Dvorak: Piano Quintet, Op. 81