CD25a Bach Cantata 132 m.1

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CD25a

Bach Cantata BWV 132
No. I:
Prepare the way, prepare the course

Released: March 30 2023

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Program Notes:

Bach Cantata BWV 132 first movement arranged for French horn choir with a solo descent horn feature. The orchestra parts were recorded on horn in the Fall or early winter of 2022, Richard took months to decide in what form the present the solo part and finally decided to do it in a n extremely high solo descant horn part.

In 2010 this CD25a was released with a solo part performed on natural horn. This recording may be found in various places around the web, but new recording is now only available on BandCamp

First movement from J. S. Bach’s Cantata 132
Arranged for Horn choir with Descant solo

About the Recording:

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About the Performer:

Richard Burdick as a musician:
French hornist: Richard O. Burdick is the first horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra and the Regina Symphony Chamber Players in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a prolific composer.

His move to Canada in 2003, with his wife Rebecca and his two boys, marked the start of the fourth major period in his musical Career.

In the 1980’s Richard was first Horn of Napa Symphony, a member of a San Francisco based theater orchestra and played lots of chamber music as manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts, a chamber music series in Berkeley California.

Starting in 1990 he played fourth Horn full-time for Sacramento Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1996. He then won auditions for Fresno Philharmonic, Napa & North State Symphonies and played in Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.

He is a prolific composer and has many self produced CD’s of his own compositions, Bach, his classical natural horn playing and multi-track performances of many of his favorite pieces.

He performs on a variety of horns, a baroque natural horn (1720), a classical era natural horn (1800), a romantic era (1840's) natural horn, a single F horn from the 1880's, his main symphony horn is a Brendan Model Finke triple horn.

He has also done many music related jobs such as arranger for Sacramento Symphony, librarian and personal manager for Sacramento Philharmonic, and manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts (chamber music series) in Berkeley, California for 19 years starting in 1984.

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