Informationen zu "Jacques Vanherenthals Two Dances in an Olden Style Double Bass Quartet"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1096
EAN: 9990093814725
Beschreibung
'These two dances in an early-music style were written for the Brussels
Contrabass Quartet in the 1980s. Two gracious and noble dances which offer
the bass quartet a chance to revisit the galant period of the 17th and 18th
centuries. We are clearly closer in style to Lully than to Mozart. The
vertical writing allows the listener to feel the ternary rhythm so
characteristic of the baroque menuet, as well as the binary pulse of the
French gavotte, here without the usual two upbeat notes.' [Jacques
Vanherenthals] Jacques Vanherenthals (b.1948) began his musical career as a
double bassist at Antwerp Opera, now Flemish Opera, in 1969. From 1973-1988
he was at the RTBF Symphony Orchestra, in 1988 he became Director of the
Academy of Nivelles and the following year was appointed Director of the
Academy of Music, Dance & Spoken Arts of Forest, where he headed the
educational team until June 2010. He also held the post of instructor in
chamber music at the Brussels Conservatory from 1984-2006. Along with his
activities as a virtuoso double bassist, he wrote numerous works for the
instrument and in 1982 created the Brussels Double Bass Quartet, with which
played, for ten years, over 300 concerts with the Jeunesses Musicales and
many others in Louisiana, Quebec, Ontario, France, Italy and Belgium. From
1987-2005 he was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of La Chapelle des
Minimes, where he conducted more than 160 cantatas as well as the great
choral works of J.S. Bach. He is also founder and Artistic Director of the
Ensemble Orchestral de Bruxelles which he created in 1994 with fellow bassist
Eric Demesmaeker and musicologist Richard Dehon.
