JS Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 18 January 2007
Dear Friends,
This is s stock collection of Baroque concertos, but even its very fame should never detract from not only their significance, but also from finding them out and enjoying them as music. It is the starting point, par excellence in Baroque music.
I have three favourite performances, two of which languish as deletions. Wenzinger and the Scola Cantorum Basiliensis, on Archiv [never released on CD and recorded in 1950 and 1953], the unavailable set from HN Linde [on EMI/Virgin] which has a natural parallel with the old Wemzinger recordings as Linde was a Wenzinger pupil, the recordings date from about 1980, and the most venerable of all, the set done with the Adolf Busch Chamber Players in London for English Columbia in 1935, and presently out on a very fine transfer from Pearl.
The safe, and great recomendation for years has been Trevor Pinnock's set on Archiv, which comes from the early eighties. It is sterling, but ultimaytely I personally prefered the Linde set.
But the great news is that Pinnock is to redo them on a label I have never heard of before called "Avie."
Pinnock has just turned sixty, and I would only imagine that his ever deepening artistry will result in a splendid new performance, devoid of any self-seeking excitment, but rather a long and considered "living with the works." I shall certainly be watching for this, and will definately risk what might be a rather expensive 2CD album.
Too many performances of this great music, in more recent times, have relied on a certain eccentricity to mark themselves out as "different." I suspect that this recording may well yield something much more important: A Musical Wisdom, born of a lifetime's experience. How refreshing this will be in a world of showmanship, rather than wit and wisdom.
Please watch out for this. I am absolutely certain the results will be as musically exciting as they will be lacking in false and applied "ideas!"
Kindest regards from Fredrik
This is s stock collection of Baroque concertos, but even its very fame should never detract from not only their significance, but also from finding them out and enjoying them as music. It is the starting point, par excellence in Baroque music.
I have three favourite performances, two of which languish as deletions. Wenzinger and the Scola Cantorum Basiliensis, on Archiv [never released on CD and recorded in 1950 and 1953], the unavailable set from HN Linde [on EMI/Virgin] which has a natural parallel with the old Wemzinger recordings as Linde was a Wenzinger pupil, the recordings date from about 1980, and the most venerable of all, the set done with the Adolf Busch Chamber Players in London for English Columbia in 1935, and presently out on a very fine transfer from Pearl.
The safe, and great recomendation for years has been Trevor Pinnock's set on Archiv, which comes from the early eighties. It is sterling, but ultimaytely I personally prefered the Linde set.
But the great news is that Pinnock is to redo them on a label I have never heard of before called "Avie."
Pinnock has just turned sixty, and I would only imagine that his ever deepening artistry will result in a splendid new performance, devoid of any self-seeking excitment, but rather a long and considered "living with the works." I shall certainly be watching for this, and will definately risk what might be a rather expensive 2CD album.
Too many performances of this great music, in more recent times, have relied on a certain eccentricity to mark themselves out as "different." I suspect that this recording may well yield something much more important: A Musical Wisdom, born of a lifetime's experience. How refreshing this will be in a world of showmanship, rather than wit and wisdom.
Please watch out for this. I am absolutely certain the results will be as musically exciting as they will be lacking in false and applied "ideas!"
Kindest regards from Fredrik