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Eric Sleichim & BL!NDMAN [sax]

eric sleichim > artistic direction and arrangements

BL!NDMAN [sax]
pieter pellens > soprano
hendrik pellens > alt and soprano
piet rebel > tenor
sebastiaan cooman > bariton
eric sleichim > tubax and electronics

BL!NDMAN is supported by the Arts Administration of the Ministry of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region. BL!NDMAN [sax] play Selmer Paris Saxophones.

STYLUS FANTASTICUS

Arrangements of organ works by Buxtehude and Gesualdo’s 6th Madrigal Book

When the idiosyncratic saxophone quartet BL!NDMAN confronted Bach’s chorale partitas in 1999, this immediately proved to be a match made in heaven. The solemn sound of the saxophones brought out the best in this polyphonic music, and this is also true of the music of Buxtehude and Gesualdo, which the quartet is now tackling. Eric Sleichim arranged compositions in the Stylus Fantasticus or “fantastical style” of Buxtehude, whose innovations paved the way for the High Baroque. A century earlier, Gesualdo created a recognisable style with chromatic madrigals. Complex music with a simultaneously expressive sound, perfectly suited to BL!NDMAN. With respect for the original and a real appetite for innovation.

programme

Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) / REMIX E.Sleichim
Se la mia morte brami (Book 6 of Madrigals)

Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) / Arr. E.Sleichim
Choral : Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Magnificat primi toni, BuxWV 203
Choral : Wo soll ich fliehen hin
Praeludium en mode phrygien, BuxWV 152

Arvo Pärt (1935-)
Pari Intervallo

Dietrich Buxtehude / Arr. E.Sleichim
Choral : Verleih uns Frieden
Praeludium in G Minor, BuxWV 148

Carlo Gesualdo / REMIX E.Sleichim
Belta poi che t?assenti (Book 6 of Madrigals)

J.S. Bach (1685-1750) / Arr. E.Sleichim
Pedal Exercitium, BWV 598
Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582

calendar

17.06.2023
DENDERMONDE
31.05.2024
HERENTALS

STYLUS FANTASTICUS played among others on the following locations:

2022
TORHOUT (B) - CC Brouckère
2021
HOOGSTRATEN (B) - Musica Divina
STROMBEEK BEVER (B) - cc Strombeek
2020
ANTWERPEN (B) - deSingel
LEUVEN / LOUVAIN (B) - Predikherenkerk (org. CC Leuven)
2019
ROUEN (FR) - Chapelle Corneille
OOSTENDE - TAZ
GENT - Nacht van de Verbeelding
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BL!NDMAN       contact info

Gallaitstraat 76-78
1030 Schaarbeek, Belgium
contact:

general and artistic direction:
management:   M +32 473 29 98 91
production and communication:   M +32 473 71 50 70
technical production:

BL!NDMAN is supported by the Arts Administration of the Ministry of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region. BL!NDMAN [sax] play Selmer Paris Saxophones.