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[EuroArts 2050406] Swinging Bach: Bobby McFerrin and Guests

3,693 views · Published 23 April 2010 · 2:31 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: Naxos Music · 2010 · Music

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Bobby McFerrin, Gil Shaham & Adele Anthony, Jacques Loussier Trio, German Brass, Quintessence Saxophone Quintet, Turtle Island String Quartet
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Christian Gansch

Bach meets Jazz! International musicians from the world of jazz and classical music assembled in the market place in Leipzig to celebrate the great master. The line up of performers could hardly be surpassed - it includes world-famous musicians from both genres, including Bobby McFerrin, the Jacques Loussier Trio, the Kings Singers, Gil Shaham, the Turtle Island String Quartet and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig all of whom joined forces on this memorable day  exactly 250 years after the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in the city where he lived and composed some of his major works as St. Thomas Cantor. Bachs music is presented in the two-hour recording as extravagant arrangements of the composers hits´ and the concert took place under the motto that the music of Bach is still vital, is still contemporary, and is still very much universal. It proves its point resoundingly in one of the most enjoyable crossover programmes ever recorded  now available at an attractive mid-range price in the EuroArts DVD series Invitation.

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