Bach, J S: Concerto for Oboe, Violin and Strings BWV1060R

The dynamic ensemble Brecon Baroque was founded in 2007 by violinist and director Rachel Podger as resident ensemble at her annual Brecon Baroque Festival. The international line-up consists of some of the leading lights in the period-instrument world, such as cellist Alison McGillivray, flautist Katy Bircher, oboist Alexandra Bellamy and violist Jane Rogers, as well as some of Rachel's former students who now occupy leading positions in many of Europe's finest ensembles: violinists Bojan Čičić and Johannes Pramsohler.

Brecon Baroque specialises in the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries, mostly as a one-to-apart ensemble based on the Cafe Zimmerman ensemble which Bach himself directed. They also appear as a small baroque orchestra for Vivaldi, Telemann, Purcell and Handel. More than any other composer of his period, J. S. Bach realised the possibilities of the concerto avec plusieurs instruments.

Drawing on the precedents of Vivaldi and others, Bach’s probing musical intellect led him down novel paths of invention where the collaborative and antagonistic features of the genre reached unprecedented levels of complexity. (...) The state of the surviving musical sources for Bach’s concertos suggests that he produced them for a variety of contexts, whether the courtly milieu of Köthen, the urban setting of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig, or even for his own domestic entertainment. This was music that he was willing to rework for different occasions, and each of the concertos on this disc existed in more than one version. (from liner notes by Tim Jones)

All of the classic English Concert recordings in a single box for the first time, including the 6 Brandenburgs, the 4 Orchestral Suites, the 13 keyboard concertos, the 3 authenticated violin concertos and multiple instrument concertos. With soloists including Simon Standage, Philip Pickett, Lisa Beznosiuk and David Reichenberg.

Liner notes by Michael Talbot.

The English Concert’s recordings of Bach from the late 1970s and early 1980s have remained benchmarks of early music authentic-style performance.” These performances represent the peak of Pinnock’s achievement as an advocate of authentic performance, with sounds that are clear and refreshing … from first to last there is no routine…Soloists are outstanding.” The Penguin Guide.

Following on from their reissues taken from Helmut Rilling’s Complete Works of Bach, this 11-CD set takes the Complete Orchestral Works and packages them in a slimline style box set for the first time.

Apart from the famous Brandenburg Concertos and the concertos, this box set also includes reconstructions of works originally intended for other solo instruments, all of which are discussed in the extensive booklet essay on the possibilities and limits of musical reconstruction.

The musicians performing on this interesting set include early recordings from violinists Isabelle Faust and Christoph Poppen, plus the Oregan Bach Festival Orchestra and of course maestro Helmuth Rilling conducting the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart.

Released as part of Herr Rilling’s 80th birthday celebrations.

172CD + 1CD-ROM

A celebration of a lifetime’s work and sought-after throughout the World hänssler CLASSIC’s Complete Works of Bach, produced in cooperation with the International Bach Academy.

172 CDs - recorded under the direction of Professor Helmuth Rilling from 1975 to 2000!

Helmuth Rilling was awarded the "Grand Prix du Disque" for his landmark recordings of cantatas and they now enjoy benchmark status. They feature the great names of the singing world: including Arleen Augér, Julia Hamari, Aldo Baldin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Wolfgang Schöne, Peter Schreier, Andreas Schmidt accompanied by Gächinger Kantorei, Bach Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling and others.

172 CDs in paper sleeves.

1 CD Rom with 6.000 pages (including all song texts, introductions, biographical notes in German, English, French and Spanish) and a search function for looking into the texts, paging and marking through.

2 booklets with BWV- and CD- number listing and additional information.