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Isang Yun: Königliches Thema für Violine Solo (1976)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Ein Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079 (1747)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Georg Kallweit (Violine), Jan Freiheit (Violoncello), Raphael Alpermann (Cembalo), Christoph Huntgeburth (Flöte)

Ensemble Modern

Jagdish Mistry (Violine)

Congress Park Hanau, Paul-Hindemith-Saal

The history of its writing is presumably more well-known than the music itself. In 1747 the Prussian King Frederic II presented the elderly Bach in Potsdam with a few notes of his own, demanding that he improvise a fugue on this »thema regium«. This the Cantor of St. Thomas did, and once returned to Leipzig, he composed his enchanting and mysterious »Ein Musikalisches Opfer«. 230 years later, Isang Yun hearkened back to the »royal theme«, undertaking »a stroll through Asian tradition« on a solo violin, in twelve-tone technique and with many a diversion.

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