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badinerie

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noun

  1. music a name given in the 18th century to a type of quick, light movement in a suite
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of badinerie1

French: a pleasantry
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A classical section included a riotous version of Bach’s “Badinerie†that featured virtuosic solos by Janne Bengtson on the flute and Kalle Moraeus on the banjo.

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Compare Harold C. Schonberg, who in 1970 huffed, also in The Times, “Hearing the Badinerie from Bach’s B minor Suite buh-buh-bubbed by a singer who could not even maintain some of the basic figurations was one of the more vulgar experiences of a concert-going lifetime.â€

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Rachel Brown gave the bouncing Badinerie that ends the Second the admirable attributes of folk flute.

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Still, it was very much of its time and greeted by enthusiastic applause, reproduced here at painful length before the performers repeat the scampering Badinerie as encore.

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Familiar melodies aside, the music had a frisson of added intensity, even melancholy; Ms. Lamon was an exciting soloist, conjuring a whirlwind in the final Badinerie.

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