THE RECORDING OF BACH – HILARY HAHN
THE RECORDING OF BACH
Hilary Hahn at Zipper Hall, Los Angeles
Hillary Hahn, Violine, Allan Vogel, Oboe, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jefferey Kahane
directed by: Thomas Grube, Christiane Kirsch
camera: Bengt Joensson, Don Mulrghead
sound: Richard Schexnayder
montage: Martin Hoffmann
original music: Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor, Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor
producers: Thomas Grube, Uwe Dierks
executive producer, L.A.: Martin T. Engstroem, Christiane Kirsch
in co-operation with Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
THE RECORDING OF BACH
Hilary Hahn at Zipper Hall
Hilary Hahn grew up in Baltimore in the USA and is now one of the world’s top violinists. Her first important teacher was Clara Berkovich from Odessa, a well-known representative of the Russian tradition. At the age of ten she then began studying at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia under Yasha Brodsky, who as Eugène Ysaye’s last pupil is a star of the Belgian tradition.
Hahn’s ancestors came from the Pfalz in Germany, and she is the only member of her family able to speak German, French and Japanese. At the age of six she first performed publicly, at the age of ten she first gave a full evening’s performance, and at the age of twelve she first performed with a big orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Since then she has given more than 800 concerts in more than 200 cities in 27 countries under 150 conductors. Her German debut was in 1995 under Lorin Maazel with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra.
Johann Sebastian Bach may be the composer closest to her. This album contains his violin concertos No. 1 and 2, his Double Concerto BWV 1043 and his Concerto for Oboe, Violin, Strings and Basso Continuo in C-minor. Hilary Hahn is aided and abetted by the violinist Margaret Batjer, the oboist Alan Vogel and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra under Jeffrey Kahane. In 2004 this recording brought her the ECHO CLASSIC award for the 'year’s best concert recording'.
THE RECORDING OF...
documentary series
THE RECORDING OF BACH
Hilary Hahn at Zipper Hall
TANGO, SONG AND DANCE | Anne-Sophie Mutter, André Previn
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SACRED SONGS | Placido Domingo
CHOPIN | Yundi Li
Pure music pleasure and a thrilling look behind the scenes. Five journeys into the international world of classical music, to famous concert halls, opera stars, soloists and maestros, to be near them when the red lamp begins glowing and artistry is eternalised. Five of Deutsche Grammophon’s important recording projects. Each in its own right is a tale of artistic passion and precision, of self-reliance and shared experiences, of small gestures and big feelings in and around the recording sessions.
