Performance on 3 - CBSO - Bach-Inspired Music

Ian Skelly presents a concert in which the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under music director Andris Nelson explore some the ways in which composers throughout the centuries have taken Bach's music as a starting point for their own. The programme opens with an Elgar arrangement of Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, followed by Berg's highly expressive Violin Concerto, a work dedicated 'to the memory of an angel', referring to Alma Mahler's daughter, who died tragically young, and also quoting from a Bach chorale at its emotional climax. Brahms, a composer always in awe of the great masters who preceded him, turns to Bach in the finale of his Fourth Symphony which is a passacaglia based on music from the cantata Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich. And contemporary Estonian composer Arvo Part incorporates the great man's name into his trumpet concerto by using the musical letters of Bach's name in the notes of one of its themes. Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Jonathan Holland (trumpet) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons (conductor) Bach orch Elgar: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor Berg: Violin Concerto Part: Concerto Piccolo on B-A-C-H Brahms: Symphony No 4 Followed by a focus on youth orchestras from Britain and abroad: Beethoven: Symphony No 5 National Youth Orchestra of Canada Jacques Lacombe (conductor) Alberto Ginastera: Danza final (Malambo) from Estancia Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela Gustavo Dudamel (conductor).