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Baroque Art. Contemporary Harmony

Alexey Kruglov

Composers
J.S. Bach; Petzold
Released
2017
Label
Fancymusic
Forces
Saxophone, Organ, Guitar
Personnel
Alexey Kruglov alto saxophone, with Igor Goldenberg and Yulia Ikonnikova organ and Jaak Sooäär electric guitar and live electronics

The album title’s initials spell BACH. Saxophonist Alexey Kruglov brings Bach’s music into a group with organists Igor Goldenberg and Yulia Ikonnikova and guitarist Jaak Sooäär, allowing the combinations of instruments to change from piece to piece.

Some arrangements stay close to Bach’s written lines; elsewhere Kruglov takes them into free improvisation. His treatment of the Badinerie even uses sounds made with the saxophone’s mouthpiece, a long way from the flute that carries the melody in Bach’s orchestral suite. The final chorale prelude offers a quieter ending to a record willing to be both careful with its sources and unruly with them.

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The originalsJ.S. Bach, Petzold · classical source works

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Jazzed upAlexey Kruglov · 2017
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Source works

The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.

  1. Arrangement of the Aria “Ich will dir mein Herze schenken”J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244: aria ‘Ich will dir mein Herze schenken’
  2. Interpretation of Prelude in C-MollJ.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 2 in C minor, BWV 847
  3. Improvisation on B-A-C-H, Pt. 1Original composition by Alexey Kruglov
  4. Interpretation of MusetteAnonymous: Musette in D major, BWV Anh. 126, from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
  5. Arrangement of the Chorale “Jesus bleibt meine Freude”J.S. Bach: Cantata ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’, BWV 147: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
  6. Improvisation on B-A-C-H, Pt. 2Original composition by Alexey Kruglov
  7. Interpretation of MinuetPetzold: Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. 114, from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
  8. Joke. Improvisation on the Theme of Orchestral Suite № 2J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067: Badinerie
  9. Joke Again. Interpretation of the Two-Part Invention in C-DurJ.S. Bach: Two-Part Invention No. 1 in C major, BWV 772
  10. Improvisation on B-A-C-H, Pt. 3Original composition by Alexey Kruglov
  11. Two-Part Invention in F-DurJ.S. Bach: Two-Part Invention No. 8 in F major, BWV 779
  12. Improvisation on the Themes of Toccata and Fugue D-MollJ.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
  13. Choral Prelude “Ich ruf’ zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ”J.S. Bach: Chorale Prelude ‘Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’, BWV 639, from the Orgelbüchlein