Maria Schneider & SWR Big Band

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Label
SWR
Release Date
March 9, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHNEIDER WEILL
    • PERFORMER
      Swr Big Band, Schneider
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 09, 2018
    • UPC
      730099046954
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      JAH-469
    • LABEL
      SWR
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I: Bombshelter Beast

      Composer: Maria Schneider

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Rainer Heute, Klaus-Peter Schöpfer

      Conductor: Maria Schneider

    2. Part II: Night Watchman

      Composer: Maria Schneider

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Peter Weniger, Claus Reichstaller

      Conductor: Maria Schneider

    3. Part III: Coming About

      Composer: Maria Schneider

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Andreas Maile, Martin Schrack

      Conductor: Maria Schneider

    4. Allégresse

      Composer: Maria Schneider

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Karl Farrent, Peter Weniger

      Conductor: Maria Schneider

    5. Dance You Monster to My Soft Song

      Composer: Maria Schneider

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Karl Farrent, Klaus-Peter Schöpfer

      Conductor: Maria Schneider

    6. Mack the Knife

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Peter Weniger, Claus Reichstaller, Marc Godfroid, Martin Schrack, Wolfgang Haffner

      Conductor: Maria Schneider

    7. Lost in the Stars: Trouble Man

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Marc Godfroid

      Conductor: Maria Schneider

    8. One Touch of Venus: Speak Low

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Peter Weniger, Decebal Badila, Wolfgang Haffner

      Conductor: Maria Schneider

    9. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: Alabama Song

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Klaus Graf

      Conductor: Maria Schneider

    10. Knickerbocker Holiday: It Never Was You

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Martin Schrack

      Conductor: Maria Schneider

    11. Some Circles

      Composer: Maria Schneider

      Ensemble: SWR Big Band

      Performer: Peter Weniger

      Conductor: Maria Schneider


Concerts with Maria Schneider are something special. They are stylistically not only out of the ordinary, they also manage to bring large orchestras to perform artistically at high voltage, with an energy and at a creative level which is otherwise known only in much smaller ensembles. It is not the music alone that drives the participants, but rather the serene seriousness of a band leader who demands a maximum of intensity from her compositions and passes this premise on to their interpretation. It is impossible to conceive of compositions for jazz orchestras more stringently. The instrumentalists know this too, and therefore feel called upon not only to reproduce the charts accurately but to work out all the contained hints, implications, and visions of sound down to the deepest levels. This original recording was made in May 2000 when Schneider appeared alongside the SWR Big Band. And for the SWR Big Band, those days in May 2000 are some of the highlights of their orchestral history.