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

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso)
• 1 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Aria 02:35
• 2 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 1 02:02
• 3 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 2 02:42
• 4 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 3, Canone all'unisuono 02:01
• 5 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 4 01:32
• 6 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 5 01:31
• 7 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 6, Canone alla seconda 01:29
• 8 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 7 02:10
• 9 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 8 02:03
• 10 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 9, Canone alla terza 01:21
• 11 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 10, Fughetta 00:47
• 12 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 11 02:18
• 13 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 12, Canone alla quarta 01:49
• 14 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 13 02:23
• 15 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 14 01:11
• 16 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 15, Canone alla quinta 02:27
• 17 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 16, Ouverture 02:54
• 18 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 17 02:03
• 19 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 18, Canone alla sexta 02:54
• 20 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 19 01:00
• 21 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 20 01:19
• 22 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 21, Canone alla settima 02:38
• 23 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 22, Alla breve 01:42
• 24 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 23 02:01
• 25 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 24, Canone all'ottava 02:12
• 26 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 25 04:49
• 27 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 26 01:53
• 28 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 27, Canone alla nona 00:47
• 29 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 28 02:01
• 30 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 29 02:15
• 31 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 30, Quodlibet 02:04
• 32 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Aria da capo 02:27
• Total Runtime 01:05:20

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

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 its 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 its 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 its many possibilities. Alpha was an immediate success, and have been prize-winners at contests and festivals all over Europe.

Bolette Roed, recorder
Peter Navarro-Alonso, saxophone
David Hildebrandt, percussion

Alpha
is a unique Danish ensemble, founded by Bolette Roed (recorder), Peter Navarro-Alonso (saxophone) and David Hildebrandt (percussion) who all graduated from the soloist class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen. As early as in 2003, they were the first to explore this instrument combination, attracted by its many possibilities. Alpha was an immediate success and became double prize winner in the Danish Radio’s Chamber Music Competition in 2006 and they have been finalists in many international competitions while all of their CDs have been nominated for P2 Prisen, the Danish Music Awards for Classical music. Alpha was also nominated for the Nordic Council’s Music Prize in 2009. For Dacapo the trio has released the CD’s ’Alpha’ (2006), ’Through the looking glass’ (2013) with new interpretations of known works by Per Nørgård, Poul Ruders, Hans Abrahamsen and Bent Sørensen as well as ’Le quattro stagioni’ (2018), which includes Peter Navarro-Alonso’s version of Vivaldi’s ’The Four Seasons’.

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