Album guide
A Tribute To B.A.C.H.
Rolf Römer & Bill Dobbins Quartet
- Composer
- J.S. Bach
- Released
- 1999
- Label
- Edition Collage
- Forces
- Saxophone, Piano, Quartet
- Personnel
- Rolf Römer tenor and soprano saxophone, Bill Dobbins piano, John Goldsby double bass, Daniel Schröteler drums and percussion
Deutsche Welle commissioned this quartet project in Cologne as the Bach anniversary year of 2000 approached. The recording was sufficiently well received to send the quartet on more than twenty concerts across Germany during the anniversary celebrations.
Bill Dobbins and Rolf Römer divide most of the arrangements between them, while bassist John Goldsby takes on the First Cello Suite. Bach remains present even in the two original compositions: Römer builds one from the B-A-C-H motif, and Dobbins dedicates “Pennies in D” to J.S.B.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- PrestoItalian Concerto in F major, BWV 971: III. Presto
- Gigue aus der Partita, Nr. 3 A-MollKeyboard Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV 827: VII. Gigue
- Preledium, Nr. 12 F-MollThe Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude No. 12 in F minor, BWV 881
- Suite FCello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007
- Air on the “G”-StringOrchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: II. Air
- Opus on B.A.C.H.Original composition by Rolf Römer
- Pennies in DOriginal composition by Bill Dobbins
- AndanteViolin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041: II. Andante