Ceremonial act
Jean Rondeau & Tancrède Kummer – UNDR
Voltahalle
Voltastrasse 27, 4056 Basel
Jean Rondeau and Tancrède Kummer transform Bach’s Goldberg Variations into “UNDR”: a musical journey spanning composition and improvisation, the Baroque, jazz, and the present day.
Jean Rondeau, piano
Tancrède Kummer, percussion
Silouane Daâge, sound engineer
What happens when you take apart Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations and create something completely new from them? In UNDR, harpsichord superstar Jean Rondeau—here, for once, on the piano—joins forces with percussionist Tancrède Kummer.
The architecture of the Goldberg Variations serves as the framework for a roughly 100-minute musical journey spanning composition and improvisation, the Baroque, jazz, and the contemporary. This is not simply a new arrangement of Bach: Rondeau and Kummer take up structures and musical ideas, break them down, and develop them in unexpected directions.
UNDR—Icelandic for “miracle”—is conceived as an open, ever-changing work. The interplay between piano and percussion creates a dialogue that continually transforms the familiar into something new—and turns one of the most famous works in music history into an immediate, contemporary concert experience.
Here you’ll find a teaser for UNDR.
Concert duration: between 60 and 75 minutes
Bar service available at the Voltahalle
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Tancrède Kummer, percussion
Silouane Daâge, sound engineer
What happens when you take apart Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations and create something completely new from them? In UNDR, harpsichord superstar Jean Rondeau—here, for once, on the piano—joins forces with percussionist Tancrède Kummer.
The architecture of the Goldberg Variations serves as the framework for a roughly 100-minute musical journey spanning composition and improvisation, the Baroque, jazz, and the contemporary. This is not simply a new arrangement of Bach: Rondeau and Kummer take up structures and musical ideas, break them down, and develop them in unexpected directions.
UNDR—Icelandic for “miracle”—is conceived as an open, ever-changing work. The interplay between piano and percussion creates a dialogue that continually transforms the familiar into something new—and turns one of the most famous works in music history into an immediate, contemporary concert experience.
Here you’ll find a teaser for UNDR.
Concert duration: between 60 and 75 minutes
Bar service available at the Voltahalle
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.