Hans-André Stamm
Bach on the Orient Express
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Hans-André Stamm
Bach on the Orient Express
- Instrumentation Organ
- Composer Hans-André Stamm
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Eufonia Edition
- Order no. EUFONIA-NHAS114
Description:
The idea behind these three pieces arose during preparations for a concert with the "Trans Orient Orchestra" as part of the Düsseldorf International Organ Festival in October 2025.
What would Bach have made of them if he had had the opportunity to travel to Turkey, Greece and Romania and hear the music there?Perhaps he would have adopted some elements and used them as a contrast to his own style.
In "Bach goes Turkey (Turkiye) ", he uses a typical scale of Turkish maqam music, Zirguli Hijaz, a heptatonic scale with two augmented seconds. The underlying scale is also used in the music of the Balkan region and other Eastern cultures. In Greece, he might have been enthusiastic about the asymmetrical meters and would have chosen the 7/8 time of the Kalamatianos dance to use for the transformation of the opening theme of his 3rd Brandenburg Concerto. In Romania, he would have been enthusiastic about the virtuoso passages of Romanian folk music and would have adopted these figurations, here one by Grigoras Dinicu (1889-1949) from his famous "Hora staccato".
What would Bach have made of them if he had had the opportunity to travel to Turkey, Greece and Romania and hear the music there?Perhaps he would have adopted some elements and used them as a contrast to his own style.
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Bach goes Turkey (Turkiye)
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Bach goes Greece
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Bach goes Romania
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Eufonia Edition
Breidenbachstr. 44
51373
Leverkusen
Deutschland
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