Francesco Filidei : Killing Bach (2015)

Francesco Filidei (* 1973) : Killing Bach (2015)
Killing Bach by Francesco Filidei © 2015 by Edizioni Musicali Rai Trade
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commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage
Donaueschingen, Donaueschinger Musiktage Abschlusskonzert, 18.10. 2015 (World Premiere)
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• Killing Bach
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Composing is a way to investigate why we need to compose.
With this nice sentence, I've spent years trying to write instead of doing it. After a long period of lent using only noises, after having rediscovered the sound and color, thinking not to be able to go further inside my reasons and myself, I went on searching the answers given by other composers, in order to compare them with what I was doing. That was the starting point of a cycle of five orchestral pieces conceived as evocations of five composers, organs, and nations.
An organ have been sometimes for centuries in the same place and is the best witness of a musical culture.
"Fiori di Fiori", the first piece of the cycle, was devoted to Frescobaldi. When I found myself in front of the second, the task was definitely blasphemous. How to deal with Johann Sebastian Bach? The only solution was to aggress him, attacking the most perfect thing I know on earth in all the way I could imagine, literally, with guns, tasers, buzzers, Wagner, and all sorts of devilry.
The result is a grotesque, violent, and obscene framework that through his violence tries to renew a sense of sacred. I could write a beautiful piece. I wrote a piece that is disturbing, that seems funny but is not, and that point his finger on a political situation that is becoming very dangerous for everyone, and not only for culture and music.
(Francesco Filidei)

[@sentientflower7891]

RIP Bach we hardly knew ye.

[@ingemarjansen]

omg bach just got SLAYED

[@XinhaoZheng]

So good...

[@normannsvetlee]

totally my last 2 years in sound

[@j36skk]

Purely talented !!

[@robertburca2078]

Wow...

[@JohnathandosSantos]

I laughed a few times! Even if my aesthetical analysis are a bit off at least I had fun!

[@Adrian-ul7so]

anyone can tell me which quote of Bach he is using?

[@machida5114]

sodelicious.................

[@yeetthebeet]

badass

[@LeeHanurii]

Boss a Nova

[@gihyunkimmusic]

based

[@Quim141]

Where did he kill Bach?

[@BetonBrutContemporary]

Donaueschingen, 2015 :)

[@bryshares]

Lol. has its cool moments

[@user-ho1vj4ei6p]

와.. 곡 잘썼다... 것보다 잘 비꼬았구만...

[@yeetthebeet]

3;10 textures heree yum

[@user-jm8lc6dh8g]

그래서 바흐 죽이기 성공인가요 실패인가요

[@achoikomposition]

대성공이요

[@arturoguadagnini4622]

if the intent was to kill Bach a second time by making him turn in his grave... well ..the mission was successful!

[@tomsm06]

Wtf

[@newaccounter]

You haven’t improved much

[@ejb7969]

This is boring. Lukas Foss's "Baroque Variations" are much, much better. 3 movements: Handel, Scarlatti, Bach. The Bach movement is a brilliant trip.

[@BetonBrutContemporary]

I know the piece too! I like that piece very much, but I am not sure that it is "better"...

[@ejb7969]

@@BetonBrutContemporary I used the term loosely. Better for me in that context meant less boring, more interesting. For me, the Filidei has too many silences, and when things get going they stop too soon, and the moving parts are often too similar to each other. It goes on too long for its material. And it doesn't satisfy the title's premise, promise, or pretense. That's just my $.02, if you know the expression.

[@normannsvetlee]

I like them both for what they are - and they're serving quite different aesthetic purposes. Foss is about deconstruction, Filidei is pure circus and fun.

[@ejb7969]

@@normannsvetleeThat's good for you. I didn't find it fun. I was bored. I like fun. I like circusy fun, silly fun, serious fun, musical fun, satirical fun, outrageous fun, and vegetable mei fun. Among others. This piece was none of those for me. At best it was occasional little chuckles separated by long boring bits. And even the little chuckles weren't that much fun. The Foss is indeed about deconstruction, but it's also FUN!

[@normannsvetlee]

@@ejb7969 Sure, that's absolutely normal if it doesn't resonate with you. I'd probably tighten up some parts too, or it's a performance thing, but overall I find the material excellent. Anyway, hope M.Aperghis enjoyed it :)

[@lorenzocassani8169]

Horrible and pityful

[@MicheleoTuTo]

sorry, a quick question: who are you?

[@lorenzocassani8169]

@@MicheleoTuTo a person Who express freely his feelings about some music. If i complemented this work with entusiasm, some random dude wuold have asked me who I am? Who are you!

[@MicheleoTuTo]

@@lorenzocassani8169 "horrible" and "pityful" are not feelings, is english not your first language? There is huge, immense difference between saying "I don't like this" and "This is horrible", and if you don't know what the difference is, well, honey, shut the computer and read a book. Or go touch some grass

[@lorenzocassani8169]

@@MicheleoTuTo keep calm my friend: no english is not my first language but As far as I know pity and horror are emotions, and you are true they are subjective. No amount of reading could make me like this modern crap wich has The pretentious claim to destroy Bach . Finally you’re litterally saying to touch grass and to shut up to somoene wo does not need to express himself as a discord mod

[@lorenzocassani8169]

@@MicheleoTuTo I think that the 300 houndred books in my home are enough to permit myself to spend some time in the internet