Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso)

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Label
Dacapo Classical
Release Date
October 19, 2018
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      BACH NAVARRO-ALONSO
    • PERFORMER
      Alpha
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 19, 2018
    • UPC
      636943621028
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8226210
    • LABEL
      Dacapo Classical
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

These Goldberg Variations present new perspectives on a well-known score. Danish composer Peter Navarro-Alonso's composition is a note-by-note reinvention of the original Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach. Thus Alpha's innovative performance adds no additional notes in comparison to the original. It is merely through the very creative and extreme orchestration that the new composition gains it's own life. "The combination of recorder, saxophone and percussion is clearly not very well suited to a baroque-style reorchestration," claims Peter Navarro-Alonso, responsible for this arrangement tailor made for the members of Alpha. "But the richness in that combination lies in it's enormous diversity in timbre and dynamics." Alpha is a unique Danish ensemble, founded by Bolette Roed, Peter Navarro-Alonso, and David Hildebrandt, who all graduated from the soloist class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen. As early as 2003, they were the first to explore this instrument combination, attracted by it's many possibilities. Alpha was an immediate success, and have been prize-winners at contests and festivals all over Europe.