Concerts
Romantik - Ein Konzert mit Musik des 19. Jahrhunderts
Evang.-ref. Theodorskirche
Theodorskirchplatz 5, 4058 Basel
The recorder orchestra Belflauto Wohlen plays music by Rheinberger (double choir mass), Gounod and other composers.
Conductor: Raphael B. Meier, Basel
Conductor: Raphael B. Meier, Basel
Veranstaltungsdetails
The 30-piece recorder orchestra plays music from the Romantic period on 7 different recorder sizes.
The program includes the Double Choir Mass in E flat major (op. 109) by Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, Charles Gounod's "Petite Symphonie", as well as other works from the 19th century by Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Sir Edward Elgar, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Bruckner, Schubert, Debussy, Gounod... the great composer names of the Romantic period are the little names of the recorder scene. Because in the Romantic period - i.e. in the music of the 19th century - the former star among the instruments no longer played a part.
In the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the recorder was a truly "mainstream" instrument, but in the Classical period it was almost forgotten. Many instruments were further developed, standardized, made louder and fitted with keys, among other things to extend the range of the instruments. The recorder was spared from this modernization movement, but fell out of the consciousness of subsequent generations of composers and was only rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century.
As a result, the flauto dolce, as the instrument is known in Italian, is not to be found in the works of Elgar, Rheinberger and Ravel.
This concert therefore features exclusively arrangements for recorder orchestra.
The program includes the Double Choir Mass in E flat major (op. 109) by Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, Charles Gounod's "Petite Symphonie", as well as other works from the 19th century by Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Sir Edward Elgar, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Bruckner, Schubert, Debussy, Gounod... the great composer names of the Romantic period are the little names of the recorder scene. Because in the Romantic period - i.e. in the music of the 19th century - the former star among the instruments no longer played a part.
In the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the recorder was a truly "mainstream" instrument, but in the Classical period it was almost forgotten. Many instruments were further developed, standardized, made louder and fitted with keys, among other things to extend the range of the instruments. The recorder was spared from this modernization movement, but fell out of the consciousness of subsequent generations of composers and was only rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century.
As a result, the flauto dolce, as the instrument is known in Italian, is not to be found in the works of Elgar, Rheinberger and Ravel.
This concert therefore features exclusively arrangements for recorder orchestra.