Bach Is in the Air

The Bach Is in the Air concert brings together two exceptional musicians: Danilo Rea and Ramin Bahrami in a joint project to reinterpret Johann Sebastian Bach’s work.

Italian pianist, composer and improviser Danilo Rea has been pushing the boundaries between jazz, classical and popular music for decades, while pianist Ramin Bahrami combines German, Russian, Turkish and Persian influences that marked his upbringing and recognizes the universal in Bach’s compositions.

Their collaboration, immortalized in 2017 on a Decca label release, is a unique musical endeavor: Bach’s music in peerless interpretations of Ramin Bahrami intertwines with the inspiration and imagination of the great improviser Danilo Rea, creating a new, fresh musical language. Starting from a deep understanding of Bach’s originals, Bahrami and Rea do not compromise his universal message, but enrich it with contemporary expression and freedom of improvisation. This encounter of baroque precision and jazz’s playfulness is also a bridge between different musical worlds as a confirmation of the timelessness of Bach’s music.

Johann Sebastian Bach:

Aria from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Jesus bleibet meine Freude, BWV 147

Prelude in B minor, BWV 855a

Prelude in C major, BWV 846

Air, BWV 1068

Menuet in G major, BWV 114

Prelude in C minor, BWV 847

Sarabande from English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808

Sinfonia in G minor, BWV 797

Siciliana from Sonata in E-flat major, BWV 1031

Prelude from Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002