Press/Reviews
Anja Bachmann fascinates in the concert
... The Bremen native impressed with a particularly demanding work in the symphony concert on Thursday evening in the Nikolaikirche Freiberg. As a soloist she played the clarinet concerto by Jean Françaix (1912-1997). ... The musician in the shiny golden dress was able to convince the audience. She also mastered the challenges of the clarinet concerto with mastery...
Freiberger Zeitung | 10 February 2024 | Steffen Jankowski
Hymns on diversity and life
... The song-like piece led to Aaron Copland's concerto for clarinet and string orchestra with harps and piano. Commissioned by clarinetist Benny Goodman in 1947, Copland (1900-1990) combines elements of classical and popular music, as suits solo clarinetist Anja Bachmann. From the initial sigh, elegiac cantilenas to the effective siren-like upsurge and not without irony, the soloist truly earned her enthusiastic applause and thanked the audience with an equally impressive encore, the duet for clarinet and cello “Off Pist” by the Swede Svante Henryson...
Freiberger Zeitung | 28 October 2021 | Matthias Zwarg
A gala for Anja Bachmann
... And here one woman in particular ensured that the listeners will be raving about this evening for a long time. Because the concert was simply a gala for Anja Bachmann. The local solo clarinetist has often played her way into the hearts of the audience, not only appearing with the orchestra or with classical chamber music, but can also be heard time and again as a soloist, showing that her repertoire also includes klezmer, jazz and film music ... And yet it's not as simple as a good clarinetist just having to change instruments to become a good saxophonist. But Anja Bachmann can do exactly that, she performs just as well on the clarinet in the first part of the concert as she does on the saxophone after the break...
Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten | 16 April 2019 | Hagen Kunze
The capital of jazz for one night
... The musicians who made Freiberg the capital of jazz for one night were bid farewell with minutes of applause and standing ovations. Soloist Anja Bachmann was just as impressive and expressive on the saxophone - four different ones in number - as on the clarinet, the two premieres - the "Rhapsody" for clarinet and orchestra by Andy Miles and the "Saxophone Concerto" for saxophone and orchestra by the New York composer Daniel Freiberg - unforgettable ...
Freiberger Zeitung | 15 April 2019
Quintet plays sensual to lively
... But on this warm May evening, the dignity of the room is combined with the mixture of melancholy and vitality that this style of music stands for like no other. And that in turn literally pulls the listeners out of their seats. Most of them are only symbolic, but one is literal: During the concert, two-and-a-half-year-old Lucius enthusiastically tests out the danceability of what he has heard in the sanctuary and turns around himself over and over again, exulting, while the music gets faster and faster. No question: “Harts und Neschome” has found a new fan here who takes the Yiddish band name (in English "Heart and Soul") seriously...
Leipziger Volkszeitung | 21 May 2017 | Hagen Kunze
Enthusiasm
The Waldheim audience enthusiastically received the music of the Freiberg band “Harts un Neschome”. With standing applause, the more than 80 listeners appreciated the klezmer music that the band with Anja Bachman performed. Frontwoman Anja Bachmann opened this concert with Jewish-Yiddish wedding music as she walked through the rows of spectators playing the clarinet. Once on stage, the band launched into “The Klezmers Frailach”, a groovy and rousing piece. Freilach means happy, and it was happy when Anja Bachmann and Kerstin gave each other looks and sounds. Immediately after this first piece, the band received a lot of applause, apparently more than the musicians expected, as they put their instruments back on to play the next track.
Döbelner Allgemeine Zeitung | 2 November 2016 | Dirk Wurzel
Thrown into ever new listening curves
... And finally, the musical standards of the evening skyrocketed once again: with the premiere of a commissioned composition by Hans-Peter Preu, the Suite for Clarinets, Saxophones and Orchestra, generously supported by the Freiberg Theater Support Association, the audience in the packed St. Nicholas Church was treated to the premiere pushed into an unmanageable rollercoaster of styles, colors, moods and instruments. “Two reeds are not enough,” says the title of the piece cheekily. And so the soloists of this lively piece play a whole arsenal of reed instruments: Anja Bachmann and Hans-Christian Wicke use all common representatives of the saxophone and clarinet family: E-flat and B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, basset horn, soprano, alto , tenor and baritone saxophone. Preu, who is the first bandmaster at the Landesbühnen Sachsen, tailored the work to Bachmann and Wicke; they played and acted in such a closely coordinated and almost intimate way that you rarely see - that the two are good friends privately, you can well imagine. The suite seemed like a wild roller coaster ride, catapulting its listeners from movement to movement, throwing them into ever new listening curves, spiraling up at a rattling pace and hectic dynamics, then suddenly dropping down to a luxuriant song (the fourth movement "Without You": it makes you cry!) ...
The Orchestra | Edition 7/8 2015 | Florian Frisch
Musically top-class
A top-class and entertaining two hours of music could be experienced in the Georgenkirche church in Flöha on Sunday evening. Almost 150 listeners, some of whom were seated in the galleries, attended a concert as part of the Central Saxon Cultural Summer. The quintet "Harts un Neschome" played klezmer music. The group's fixture is Anja Bachmann, known to connoisseurs as the solo clarinettist of the Central Saxony Philharmonic Orchestra. Her first-class playing alone was worth the entrance fee. However, it would be foolhardy to describe the playing of the other musicians (violin, accordion, double bass and drums) as mere accompaniment. Only all the instruments together created a total work of art ...
Freiberger Zeitung | 13 August 2013
Impressive
The trio performed a whole series of arrangements, with the protagonists changing instruments several times: Anja Bachmann took up the clarinet, soprano and alto saxophone. Yvonn Richter played oboe, oboe d'amore and cor anglais. Mei Chu Lai on bassoon and contrabassoon gave the whole thing a sonorous bass foundation. Works for three performers are quite difficult: each must act as a soloist in their own right, yet the ensemble should find a common tone. The three ladies achieved this impressively: it was beautiful, for example, how the oboe and soprano saxophone played the melody to each other in "Summer" from Astor Piazolla's "Four Seasons" (in an arrangement by Hans-Peter Preu), how lines were developed with mutually attuned phrasing ...
Döbelner Allgemeine Zeitung | 21 May 2013
Magic
"The Tale of Talisien"... And Anja Bachmann as soloist on the alto saxophone completed the magical spell with her virtuoso and nuanced playing. This was met with rapturous applause, which was also enjoyed by the composer in attendance ...
Sächsische Zeitung | 20 February 2012
Expressive
Fortunately, Anja Bachmann came into her own as the soloist in Martin Romberg's musical poem "The Tale of Talisien" for alto saxophone and orchestra. This fine piece also comes from a legend about the enchanted singer in the time of King Arthur, divided by Romberg into episodes that unfold in the dialogue between the saxophone and the orchestra. Anja Bachmann, solo clarinettist in the Mittelsächsische Philharmonie, has often provided musical events with the saxophone, and the audience once again got its money's worth. The soloist played a beautifully rounded, vocal tone based on the music of the Celtic bards ... the soloist was celebrated for her expressive playing ...
Freiberger Zeitung | 18 February 2012
Outrageously passionate
Together with colleagues from Freiberg, he founded the klezmer ensemble "Harts un Neschome", which means "heart and soul". The five musicians with clarinet, violin, accordion, double bass and drums lived up to this claim as they thrilled the Trossingen audience with outrageously passionate sounds. The many influences of klezmer music, which draw on the Hasidic, Ashkenazi and Sephardic roots of Jewish tradition as well as the broad field of Eastern European folklore, were made audible here with loud and soft tones, abrupt changes of tempo and time signature and an all-conquering clarinet by Anja Bachmann, whose powerful phrasing technique and breadth of dynamics from overblowing in the highest notes to the delicately fading morendo revealed an astonishing breadth of expression ...
Mitteilungsblatt | 15 April 2010
She is a volcano
While the musicians were still very discreet at the beginning of "Mizmor L'David", the following "Odessa Bulgar", a stormy dance in 8/8 time, created an exuberant atmosphere. "She's a volcano!" marveled an enthusiastic listener about the clarinettist Anja Bachmann... And she is undoubtedly the centerpiece of "Harts un Neschome". She makes her instrument sing, cajole, beg, growl sonorously, then bleat heartily again and at the end of the "Yankele" dance, she drives it up to a three-note A. Stunning! ...
Schwäbische Zeitung | 10 April 2010
Exuberant joy
"Harts un Neschome" ... their name says it all: With heart and soul ... and exuberant joy. ... The five musicians of the Freiberg klezmer ensemble are a merry bunch and a conspiratorial bunch, which you can feel at the concerts ... Professionals with an irrepressible passion for this colorful, rousing music.
Freiberger Zeitung | 27 January 2009
Difficult and transparent
Dietrich Wagler from Freiberg is undoubtedly one of Saxony's best-known organists. ... With Anja Bachmann, Wagler had brought along a clarinettist ... who provided an entertaining expansion of the repertoire. Anja Bachmann also gave the saxophone a chance to shine. The duo played baroque pieces such as a flute sonata by Bach in a delicate and transparent manner. A klezmer medley delighted the audience so much that it even had to be extended.
Dresdner Allgemeine Zeitung | 2 September 2008
A wonderful concert
Church music director Dietrich Wagler and Anja Bachmann, first soloist of the Mittelsächsische Philharmonie, gave a concert for clarinet, saxophone and organ ... an unusual musical mix ... They have been giving concerts together since 2001 ... In 2007 they made a guest appearance in Bremen Cathedral. ... After playing works by Mozart and Bach, among others, the joy of playing ... culminated in a klezmer medley. Loud, lively and rousing ... a wonderful concert
Freiberger Zeitung | September 2008
Musical surprise
With the Concerto for Saxophone and String Orchestra op. 109 by Alexander Glazunov, the musicians, above all soloist Anja Bachmann, achieved an unparalleled musical surprise. ... With wonderfully soft tones, almost reminiscent of a deeply played clarinet, Anja Bachmann as soloist dominated the orchestra in a leading and dominant manner. Long-lasting applause ...
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung | 4 September 2007
A rousing celebration
One could not have wished for a more beautiful opening of the Freiberg Jazz Days ... with the soloists Anja Bachmann and Andy Miles (both saxophones, clarinet) ... at the premiere of Preu's New York Jazz Suite ... so rousingly celebrated ... that its effect did not fail to have the same effect as a light-sparkling film over the city.
The Orchestra | July/August 2007
Acclaimed
... the 33rd Jazz Days began with an acclaimed concert by the Mittelsächsische Philharmonie with soloists Anja Bachmann and Andy Miles (both clarinets and saxophones) under the motto "Bach meets Jazz". Almost 600 listeners celebrated the orchestra, which performed everything from Bach to classical jazz, with thunderous applause and only left after a long encore.
Freiberger Zeitung | 23 April 2007
Spirited finale
The medley of klezmer pieces took the audience on a rollercoaster of moods. The clarinet sobbed and jubilated its way through "Yankele", bubbled over with joie de vivre in "Ki Mitzion" and found a fast-paced, spirited finale in "Dance of Delight" ...
Freiberger Zeitung | 7 November 2006
A special highlight
The concerto for alto saxophone and string orchestra in E flat major op. 109 by Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) was a particular musical highlight... Conductor Grigori Pantijelew was able to rely on a renowned musician in Anja Bachmann. ... she presented a performance at the highest level. With a cleanly modeled tone, she acrobatically scaled the heights in the cadenza with rapid runs, while her pleasantly soft embouchure filled the church with a rich sound in slower passages. Intense applause ...
Weserkurier | 18 April 2005
Brilliant success
It was the best possible opportunity for the orchestra's first solo clarinettist, Anja Bachmann, to present herself. Her performance was a brilliant success. And that's because she did what she always does: she put her instrumental artistry at the service of the whole. Her animated, lively tone never pushed itself forward, it was a kind of chamber music spirit that created a harmonious understanding with the conductor and her orchestra colleagues. This is how one imagines concert music-making ...
Freiberger Zeitung | 8/9 March 2003
Bohemian tone
... the best thing that can be said about the performance is that the Central Saxon Philharmonic ... is completely up to this orchestral coloring, especially the woodwinds, and especially the first clarinet, which has completely adapted the Bohemian tone ...
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | 15 April 2002
Experienced clarinettist
Soloist Anja Bachmann ...performed her part with vital and gripping musicality and once again proved herself to be an accomplished clarinettist. Her soft and nuanced piano playing in particular emphasized the tonal charm of her instrument ...
Freiberger Zeitung | 3 August 2000
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