Bach meets Jazz

ROP6048: Following the motto Bach in Jazz, Martin Petzold and Stephan König and his jazz trio do just that: they translate Baroque music into elegant jazz miniatures. For the first time, arias from Johann Sebastian Bach’s large-scale cantatas and passion settings have been arranged for the realisation of this vocal experiment. The Stephan-König-Trio offers new listening experiences full of inspiration in select movements from the Italian Concerto and the Orchestral Suites. Two seeming opposites - a score-bound singer and improvising instrumentalists - approach Bach in a completely unheard-of fashion. But fear not: Bach remains Bach - even in Jazz.

ROP2003: From Bach to Ellington - the Windsbacher Knabenchor (Windsbach Boys Choir) ventures into completely new terrain. For the first time, the protestant church choir is accompanied by a jazz band - by the famous Thilo Wolf Quintett, no less. The idea behind the encounter was to initiate a dialogue between two musical worlds: the sacred tradition cultivated by the Windsbacher Knabenchor on the one hand, and on the other, the much younger jazz tradition - which because it has its roots in spirituals, can also be regarded as an offshoot of the sacred tradition. The suite called Begegnungen” - or Encounters - by Thomas Zoller is dedicated to the two ensembles. The CD also features arrangements of works by Duke Ellington, Carl Orff, George Gershwin and various other composers.

Martin Petzold
Stephan-König-Trio

Thilo Wolf Quintett
Windsbacher Knabenchor
Karl-Friedrich Beringer