Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts – Concert Hall
Dates: May 21 – 22, 2009 19:30
Price: VIP 380 280 180 120 80 RMB
Programme Introduction
GERMAN BRASS is both: tradition and progress. But above all the ensemble has for years been a synonym for brass music at its highest level. A pioneer among the German brass ensembles, GERMAN BRASS has co-initiated the brass movement from its beginnings in 1974 and has influenced it decisively ever since. As an ensemble they play transparent chamber music but at the same time with symphonic magnificence and dynamics that only brass instrumentalists can produce.
In their concerts the ensemble nurtures and surmounts the division in two kinds of musical styles with professionality and fun: the programs contain arrangements of classicals works as well as adaptations and compositions of musical evergreens which have mostly been arranged and composed specially for GERMAN BRASS and pay tribute to the typical sound and the technical brilliance of the ensemble. Listening to one of the concerts of GERMAN BRASS, presented by Klaus Wallendorf of the ensemble with inimitably witty and entertaining comments as well as to one of the many recordings on CD is quite an experience.
Members
Trumpet
Matthias Hofs
Uwe Koller
Werner Heckmann
Christoph Baerwind
Trombone
Enrique Crespo
Alexander Erbrich-Crawford
Uwe Füssel
Horn
Wolfgang Gaag
Klaus Wallendorf
Tuba
Stefan Ambrosius
Drum
Herbert Wachter
Programs
May 21
Rossini/Hofs La Danza or Hondel/Hofs Royal Firework Music
Crespo,Enrique Concerto alla Pergolesi
Mondschein Sonate Beethoven/Crespo
Adagio sostenuto Satz
Tritsch Tratsch Polka Strauss/Hofs
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Listz/Hofs
May 22
Concerto D- alla Vivaldi Bach/Hofs
I call you, Lord Jesus Christ Bach/Crespo
Orchestral Suite Bach/Crespo
1) Bourree
2) Air
3) Badinerie
By your side Bach/Crespo
Toccata and Fuge in D Minor Bach/Crespo
World of Movie Arr.E.Crespo
Fanfare from Once Upon a Time in the West
Star Wars
Hora Staccato Arr.Crespo
Caminhemos/Agua de beber Arr.Crespo
Tico – Tico Abreu/Crespo
Horns of My Soul Enrique Crespo
A Little Dixieland Story Arr.E.Crespo
1) Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
2) I’m coming Virginia
3) Bourbon Street Parade
Sing Sing Sing Louis Prima/Crespo
(Source: ebeijing.gov.cn)