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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 returns with the long-awaited sequel.

Elizabeth Anderson harpsichord
Rosie Westbrook acoustic bass, electric bass
Tony Floyd drums
Ariel Valent vibraphone
Ron Nagorcka didjeridu, sampler

Barock is a German word that originally meant 'bizarre'. The word 'rock', incidentally, was used early in the twentieth century as a euphemism for sexual congress and later became a generic musical term. Only early in that century was Barock applied in Germany to 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 'Gothic'. In architecture, from about 1867, Barock named the highly decorated style of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Austria and Germany.

To apply Baroque, in the French and English spelling, with all its shades of meaning is therefore to push the boundaries of Baroque music far beyond the dates traditionally set for it.

This recording explores 'Baroque' harpsichord music across four centuries. It ranges from Peerson's early programmatic cameo, through traditional Baroque repertoire by Bach, Vivaldi, Couperin, Telemann and Purcell, to jazz greats Alec Templeton and Dave Brubeck. It is the sequel to Bizarre or baRock.

Reviews

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.

... 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.

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’.

the hottest, hippest harpsichord in the world today

Artists

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Elizabeth Anderson

Elizabeth Anderson has performed on eleven international concert tours to Europe, Japan and Singapore, and is a regular guest lecturer and performer at universities and music schools throughout Australia.

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Ariel Valent

Ariel Valent’s vibraphone colours ambient soundscapes and baroque-jazz crossovers alike, whether co-writing Invention in Time pieces that drift like tide and light or locking into a rhythm section under Elizabeth Anderson’s harpsichord.

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Ron Nagorcka

Ron Nagorcka has a long-held interest in the sounds of the Australian bush, especially its birds, electronics in music, and just intonation. His nature recordings from Tasmania and arid mainland Australia provide the basis for many of his compositions.

Audio previews

Audio preview tracks for this release; use the play buttons or row links to play.

Tracks

  1. Bird Boogie Chocolate Boogie Franzpeter Goebels Arr: Vaclav Nelhybel 1:20
  2. Fuguedelic Andrew Koll 3:59
  3. No. 1 The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 Johann Sebastian Bach

  4. Prelude in C major 2:57
  5. Fugue in C major 1:39
  6. Bach Goes To Town Alec Templeton Arr: Elizabeth Anderson

  7. Prelude 1:33
  8. Fugue 2:00
  9. Concerto in D major Antonio Vivaldi Arr: Johann Sebastian Bach

  10. (Allegro) 2:20
  11. Larghetto 2:23
  12. Allegro 2:27
  13. Foggy Mountain Breakdown Earl Scruggs Arr: Donald Angle 1:53
  14. Pièces de Clavecin, 20th Ordre François Couperin

  15. La Princesse Marie 2:39
  16. Air dans le goût Polonois 1:33
  17. Polonaise and Trio Thaddeus Kosciusko 1:27
  18. Andreas Bach Book Georg Philipp Telemann

  19. Bourrées 2:21
  20. Polonoise 1:31
  21. The Addams Family Virginall Vaughan McAlley 3:23
  22. baRock Jill Lowe 2:20
  23. This Beauteous Wicked Place Ron Nagorcka 6:56
  24. Bach Before the Mast George Malcolm 3:44
  25. The Fall of the Leafe Martin Peerson 2:12
  26. Lambert's Clavichord Op. 41 Lambert's Fireside Herbert Howells 2:31
  27. Round O' Henry Purcell 1:57
  28. Continuum György Ligeti 5:00
  29. Piano Sonata in A major K331 Rondo alla Turka Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 3:03
  30. Blue Rondo à la Turk Dave Brubeck Arr: Elizabeth Anderson 3:48

Performers

Composers

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Donald Angle

Donald Angle’s music comes from, or is influenced most directly by, twentieth-century pop, country and jazz, and is mostly geared to solo performance on the harpsichord.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist of the late Baroque. His sacred and secular music for choir, orchestra, organ and solo instruments remains among the foundations of the Western concert and church repertory.

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Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck wrote jazz that thrives on odd metres, stacked rhythms and a classical sense of form. On these discs his pieces travel far from the quartet: Strange Meadow Lark, Bluette and Lamento for horn and keyboard, and Blue Rondo à la Turk reimagined on harpsichord.

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François Couperin

François Couperin (1668–1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist, known as Couperin le Grand. Organist to Louis XIV and to Saint-Gervais in Paris, he remains the supreme French master of the harpsichord.

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Herbert Howells

Herbert Howells wrote Anglican church music of rare harmonic warmth and contemplative beauty, from carol-anthems such as A Spotless Rose to Latin motets and organ works steeped in the Tudor tradition.

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György Ligeti

György Ligeti (1923–2006) was a Hungarian-born composer of contemporary classical music, among the most innovative avant-garde figures of the later twentieth century.

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Vaughan McAlley

Vaughan McAlley is a composer and arranger, alto and tenor, a capable flautist and French horn player, and the recording engineer behind countless Move releases.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He wrote over 600 works, many of them pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic and choral music, and remains among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (c. 1659–1695) was an English organist and composer of the middle Baroque. His sacred music, theatre songs, instrumental works and the opera Dido and Aeneas shaped a distinctly English Baroque style.

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Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught, he became a composer against his family's wishes and ranked among the leading German musicians of his age.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) was an Italian Baroque composer, priest and virtuoso violinist. He is best known for his instrumental concertos, above all the violin cycle The Four Seasons.

Where to listen

More Bizarre or baRock is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.

More Bizarre or baRock is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.

Product details

Catalogue number
MD 3326
List price
$25.00 AUD
Total playing time
66 minutes 56 seconds
Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
Thanks to
Creative Australia (track 18)
Release date
Musical work
copyright
© 2009 Move Records
Sound recording
copyright
℗ 2009 Move Records
Categories
Baroque, Classical, Jazz, Keyboard
Genres
Baroque, Jazz & Improvised
Barcode
EAN 9314574332629

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