Album guide
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XVIII: Jazz Goes Baroque
- Released
- 2026
- Label
- ACT
- Forces
- Harpsichord, Saxophone, Flute
- Personnel
- Henning Sieverts, Eric Schaefer, Frédéric Couderc, Bernd Lhotzky and Emile Parisien
The concert marked the fiftieth instalment of Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic and deliberately answered George Gruntz’s 1964 Jazz Meets Baroque, one of producer Siggi Loch’s early successes.
Lhotzky played harpsichord rather than piano, joined by soprano saxophone, flute, double bass and drums for a line-up that could move between Baroque counterpoint and modern jazz without pretending the two idioms were identical.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Monsieur Charpentier Raises The CurtainCharpentier: Prélude to the Te Deum, H. 146
- Ciacona - La Roue Du HamsterPachelbel: Ciacona in F minor
- Alma’s GavotteDizzy Gillespie, arranged by Bernd Lhotzky
- Pasquini’s Slow DragPasquini: Aria in C minor, No. 1 from 6 Arie per organo o clavicembalo
- Double Talk (A Fugue)Louis C. Singer
- Croc-en-jambe, Chute FataleCouperin: Le Croc-en-jambe, from Pièces de clavecin
- Gavotte En Rondeau (Rondeau N°24)Marais: Gavotte en rondeau (Rondeau No. 24), from Pièces de viole
- AffetuosoHandel: Violin Sonata in D major, HWV 371: I. Affettuoso
- Vivaldi 156Vivaldi: Concerto for strings in G minor, RV 156: I. Allegro
- Fugue, Flucht, BedrängnisOriginal composition by Bernd Lhotzky
- CanarieLully: Canarie, from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43