More Bizarre or baRock
"The hottest, hippest harpsichord in the world today" said one critic of the best selling Bizarre or baRock. Melbourne harpsichordist Elizabeth Anderson has returned to the studio for the long awaited sequel.
Barock is a German word, which originally meant 'bizarre'. The word 'rock', incidentally, was used early in the 20th century as a euphemism for sexual congress and later became a generic musical term. It was not until early in the 20th century that the word Barock was used in Germany to describe the music of Bach's time. When Sir Charles Burney first used it in his German Tour diary (1733), he explained that it meant 'course and uncouth', much as writers then used the word 'Gothic'. In architecture, the word Barock was applied from about 1867 to the highly-decorated style of the 17th and 18th centuries in Austria and Germany.
Therefore, to apply the term Baroque (French/English spelling) with all its shades of meaning is to extend the boundaries of Baroque music far beyond the dates that have traditionally been set for it.
This CD explores 'Baroque' harpsichord music across four centuries: it ranges from Peerson's early programatic cameo, through traditional Baroque repertoire by Bach, Vivaldi, Couperin, Telemann and Purcell to the music of jazz greats, Alec Templeton and Dave Brubec.
Artist
Elizabeth Anderson
Elizabeth Anderson has performed in no less than eleven international concert tours to Europe, Japan and Singapore. She is a regular guest lecturer and performer at universities and music schools throughout Australia.
Press quotes
“Elizabeth Anderson's latest compact disc may well prove startling. Certainly, it is one of the most delightfully entertaining recitals on the instrument I've heard in a long time.”
Read full review— Neville Cohn, Oz Arts Review website
“... a reminder that classical music doesn't need to be serious all the time ... Elizabeth Anderson marries her taste to a good sense of humour and delivers a fascinating program that ranges from Bach to boogie.”
— Tony Way, The Age - Green Guide
“Anderson is a dynamic and imaginative player. I enjoy her energetic rendition of Mozart’s Rondo alla Turca. She also has a sensitive, introverted side; and several of the pieces she has programmed for this recording, like Herbert Howells’s poignant ‘Lambert’s Fireside’, show her in that light. The harpsichord is supported in some pieces by a jazz rhythm section of bass, drums, and vibes, in various combinations. The Australian didjeridu makes an appearance in Ron Nagorcka’s ‘This Beauteous Wicked Place’.”
— American Record Guide,
Audio previews
Track Listing
- Bird Boogie Chocolate Boogie Franzpeter Goebels Arr: Vaclav Nelhybel
- Fuguedelic Andrew Koll
- Prelude in C major
- Fugue in C major
- Prelude
- Fugue
- (Allegro)
- Larghetto
- Allegro
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown Earl Scruggs Arr: Donald Angle
- La Princesse Marie
- Air dans le goüt Polonois
- Polonaise and Trio Thaddeus Kosciusko
- Bourrées
- Polonaise
- The Addams Family Virginall Vaughan McAlley
- baRock Jill Lowe
- This Beauteous Wicked Place Ron Nagorcka
- Bach Before the Mast George Malcolm
- The Fall of the Leafe Martin Peerson
- Lambert's Clavichord Op. 41 Lambert's Fireside Herbert Howells
- Round O' Henry Purcell
- Continuum György Ligeti
- Piano Sonata in A major K331 Rondo alla Turka Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Blue Rondo à la Turk Dave Brubeck Arr: Elizabeth Anderson
No. 1 The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach Goes To Town Alec Templeton Arr: Elizabeth Anderson
Concerto in D major Antonio Vivaldi Arr: Johann Sebastian Bach
Pièces de Clavecin, 20th Ordre François Couperin
Andreas Bach Book Georg Philipp Telemann
Performers
- Elizabeth Anderson · harpsichord
- Rosie Westbrook · acoustic bass, electric bass · track 2
- Ariel Valent · vibraphone · track 2
- Ron Nagorcka · didjeridu, sampler · track 18
Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist. Vivaldi is recognised as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.
Donald Angle
Donald Angle's music comes from, or is influenced, most directly, by 20th Century Pop, Country, and Jazz, and is mostly geared to solo performance.
François Couperin
Couperin belonged to a family of several composers from the mid-17th to mid-19th centuries. He was organist in the chapel of Louis XIV at Versailles, and was the greatest French master of the harpsichord.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes.
Vaughan McAlley
Vaughan is a composer and arranger, a capable flautist and french horn player as well as engineer of countless Move CD releases.
Ron Nagorcka
Ron Nagorcka has a long-held interest in the sounds of the Australian bush (in particular its birds), the use of electronics in music and the system of tuning known as just intonation. His recordings of nature in Tasmania and in the arid zones of mainland Australia provide the basis for many of his compositions.
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
Where to buy
More Bizarre or baRock is available for download from the iTunes Music Store.
It's available for streaming through
Apple Music.
More Bizarre or baRock is available as as CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer secure online ordering.
Move CDs can be ordered through music retailers across Australia including Readings.
Product details
This recording project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
(track 18)
