VIDEO GALLERY 2 - PIANO & COMPOSER

LA RISA (LAUGHTER)
Florian Trübsbach - alto sax, Larry Porter - piano, Marco Chacón - bass, Dimitris Christides - drums

EMERALD FOREST
Florian Trübsbach - alto sax, Larry Porter - piano, Marco Chacón - bass, Dimitris Christides - drums

Quarter To Four
Larry Porter - piano, Andreas Lang - bass, Joe Smith - drums

COMPOSER

Kind Of Jazz Suite for 8 French horns - 2nd Movement (Larry Porter)
Berlin Philharmonic Horn Ensemble

Kind Of Jazz Suite

Larry Porter was asked by his friend Stefan Jezierski from the Berlin Philharmonic to write a jazz-influenced piece for the 8 french horns of the orchestra. It was premiered in the chamber music hall and was received with rousing applause by the audience. The piece was later played by horn professor Marie Luise Neunecker and her students. The third movement was released on the CD Wilde Klassik (BPH0501), a collection of chamber music played by various Berlin Philharmonic ensembles.

Larry Porter (geb. 1951)
KIND OF JAZZ SUITE
Auftragswerk der Berliner Philharmoniker
Uraufführung, Kammermusiksaal

1. Ballad
2. Bossa
3. Blues

Hornisten der Berliner Philharmoniker

Radek Baborak
Stefan Dohr
Norbert Hauptmann
Stefan de Leval Jezierski
Fergus McWilliam
Georg Schreckenberger
Klaus Wallendorf
Sarah Willis

...from the original program notes:

Larry Porter ist der einzige Komponist im zweiten Teil des heutigen Konzerts, der nicht selbst hauptberuflich ins Horn stößt. Der in Berlin lebende Amerikaner nennt das Klavier und die orientalische Laute Rebab als seine Hauptinstrumente. Er ist in der afghanischen Folklore ebenso beheimatet wie im Jazz. Von den Hornisten der Berliner Philharmoniker hat er sich dazu inspirieren lassen, "ein Stück mit harmonischen und rhythmischen Elementen des Jazz zu schreiben und gleichzeitig die kammermusikalische Integrität des Ensembles zu wahern."
Kind Of Jazz Suite (eine Art Jazz Suite) besteht aus drei Sätzen, denen drei typische Formen der afro-amerikanischen Musik zu Grunde liegen: Ballade, Bossa Nova und Blues. Das Werk beginnt langsam und rhapsodisch, nimmt jedoch im Verlauf an rhythmischer Intensität und Dichte zu.
( Marcus Gammel)

Larry Porter is the only composer in the second half of today’s concert who is not himself a horn player. The American who resides in Berlin calls the piano and the oriental lute, rebab, his main instruments. He is just at home in Afghan folk music as he is in jazz. He was inspired by the Berlin Philharmonic Horns, “to write a piece with harmonic and rhythmic elements of jazz and at the same time preserve the integrity of a chamber music ensemble.”
Kind Of Jazz Suite consists of three movements based on typical forms in Afro-American music: ballad, bossa nova, and blues. The work is slow and rhapsodic at the beginning and gets increasingly more rhythmic and syncopated as it develops.