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| |  | JS Bach: Brandenburg Concertos & Sinfonias from the Cantatas
Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV29 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir': Overture Anthony Walker Sinfonia from Cantata No. 156 Neal Peres Da Costa Cantata BWV75 'Die Elenden sollen essen': Sinfonia Neal Peres Da Costa Cantata BWV42 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats': Sinfonia Neal Peres Da Costa Sinfonia: Cantata BWV174 Anthony Walker Cantata BWV21 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis': Sinfonia Neal Peres Da Costa Cantata BWV106 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' (Actus tragicus): Sinfonia Neal Peres Da Costa Cantata BWV182 'Himmelskönig, sei willkommen': Sinfonia Neal Peres Da Costa Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051 (complete) Anthony Walker (Nos. 1 & 2), Anna McDonald (Nos. 3 & 4), Erin Helyard (Nos. 5 & 6) |
Orchestra of the Antipodes The Orchestra of the Antipodes boasts members from many acclaimed and admired ensembles, including Les Arts Florissants, Academy of Ancient Music and the English Concert. The recording has all the clarity and rhythmic acuity of a top period ensemble, with some outstanding horn playing, especially in the last movement of BWV 1046. Also included are a number of sinfonias. “These are fabulous performances in every sense. The playing is so vibrant, so alive that resistance is futile...these recordings demonstrate intelligent period practice in the best imaginable light...What the players of the Orchestra of the Antipodes can do, effortlessly, is spring the rhythms and give the solo lines plenty of character.” The Arts Desk, 9th June 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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The maturity and wisdom harvested from a lifetime of making music on the highest levels ennobles Maestro Abbado’s leadership of the superb Orchestra Mozart. The sublime simplicity of their performance of the Brandenburg Concertos illuminates the complexities of Bach’s incomparable demonstration of the unity of Logic and Love. Harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone, recorder player Michala Petri, trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich, supreme Baroque violinist, Giuliano Carmignola and the others demonstrate the mastery that makes them among Abbado’s favorite soloists Employing period instruments, Orchestra Mozart liberates all the vitality embedded in Bach’s notes. Wrote Classical Source: “…As if you’re hearing [the music] for the first time” “Conducting J. S. Bach isn’t Abbado’s usual activity. But he buckles to it with joy, humanity and an Italianate slant that turns these cornerstone suites into outpourings of instrumental song. The players are the all-star Orchestra Mozart, with Giuliano Carmignola the demon lead fiddler, caught live in 2007.” The Times, 12th March 2011 **** “The excitement is palpable, reflected in smiling glances between the players, bodies swaying through musical suspensions, a sense of uninhibited joy… The playing is stylish throughout: ornaments are apt, all the more telling for their restraint; trills are paced to match mood, languid in slow movements, sparkling in allegros.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2009 “Here Claudio Abbado is gambolling among the Brandenburg Concertos in this straightforward TV-style concert film, recorded in the classic 19th-century opera house at Reggio Emilia during an Italian tour in spring 2007.
The orchestra is at first glance a curious gathering, mixing 'Baroque' players such as violinist Giuliano Carmignola and harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone with 'modern' names such as trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich and 'un-Baroque' recorder-player Michala Petri. Furthermore, a look round the instruments reveals mostly modern models, some hybrids (for instance Jacques Zoon's wooden, multi-keyed flute) and a sprinkling of Baroque bows. Mind you, most younger players these days are well versed in Baroque style whatever they play on, and the tenor of these performances is firmly consistent with current ideas of what Baroque music ought to sound like.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “Does the world need another set of Brandenburgs? Yes, when they are as freshly minted and as adventurously sonorous as this marvellous set...Abbado leads supple, imaginative readings; a great deal of the strong character is provided by his leader, violinist Giuliano Carmignola, and there is a brilliant harpsichord solo from Ottavio Dantone in the fifth concerto.” The Observer, 13th March 2011 “This new recording of the Brandenburg Concertos exhibits all the virtues that one associates with Claudio Abbado: clarity, lucidity, balance, a sense of proportion, and, above all, an indefinable yet audible 'oneness' with the music. Dionysus is present in these performances, but he subsumed within their underlying Apollonian quality.” International Record Review, April 2011 “the audio-only experience draws out a super-contented gestural world which had only intermittently communicated itself before...The hallmark of this set is the ambition to create lithe, beautiful and elegant statements in which witty, sophisticated dialogues are carried off within a heady textural landscape...The Fifth spins like a happy top...These are life-affirming live performances...which glide effortlessly on to the high table.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Kuijken brings a new approach to these well known works. The trumpet part in Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 is played on an “original” baroque trumpet, without holes. In the first two concertos, one player is used per part, even for the “tutti” parts, to create greater transparency in overall sound. Research has shown that Bach used the “shoulder cello” or “violoncello da spalla” and three are played here. | | | (also available to download from $21.75) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bach - Les Six Concerts Brandenbourgeois(The original manuscript's title is in French.)
Booklet : English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Catalan With star-soloists including Fabio Biondi & Pierre Hantaï this double album, recorded in 1991, is a landmark in Bach’s discography (as all other Bach /Savall recordings, by the way...). The orchestra Le Concert des Nations sounds richer than ever and, as you have come to expect from Alia Vox, this reissue is also a luxury masterly-remastered double digipack. There are many other versions of the Brandenburg Concertos but Alia Vox would like to underline that Jordi Savall's recording is regarded as the best recording ever made. In the December 2009 issue of the French magazine Classica, this album was chosen as the THE recording of the Brandenburg Concertos. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
Never before released on DVD and, to the dismay of fans, long unavailable – these glorious Bach pieces are conducted by period instrument pioneer, Nikolaus Harnoncourt as only he can. Harnoncourt, a notable cellist, performs in two concertos and on gamba in one. Vocalists Perry, Holl, and Schreier sing with distinction. 5.1 DTS Surround Sound makes clear they revel in the acoustics of the visually magnificent Baroque library of Wiblingen Monastery. “Highly accomplished playing from all the Concentus Musicus” (Gramophone) Harnoncourt warns, “If we lose contact with the great works of Bach, we lose our contact with humanity.” This DVD makes staying in touch with this gift pure joy. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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John Eliot Gardiner and his superb period-instrument chamber orchestra, English Baroque Soloists, record their unique interpretation of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos for the very first time. Gardiner only conducts two of the six concertos but rehearsed the others with the players. The responsibility of performing the remaining four is left to the hand-picked musicians of the English Baroque Soloists led by the brilliant, Kati Debretzeni, a true Konzertmeisterin and the inspirational presiding virtuoso of this project. This recording follows a phenomenal 11-concert residency at the Spitalfieds Music Winter Festival in December 2008 and January 2009. John Eliot Gardiner led the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir in performances of JS Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Brandenburg Concertos and Motets. Every concert was well received by public and press alike, with standing ovations from the sell-out audiences and high critical acclaim: "Gardiner encouraged rampaging exuberance from his excellent horns, subtle dynamic variations from oboes and strings, and some unusually complex phrasing…delivered with such conviction.” The Times The six “Brandenburg” Concertos, described by Bach as ‘Concertos for several instruments’, are widely regarded as among the finest musical compositions of the Baroque. Now considered a benchmark of Baroque music, the concertos still have the power to move people almost three centuries later. The booklet includes a long note by John Eliot Gardiner entitled ‘A conductor-less slant on the Brandenburg Concertos’ and entries by each member of the English Baroque Soloists where they discuss their personal experience of recording the Brandenburg Concertos. “…a constant delight. …Katie Debretzeni deserves the highest praise: her phrasing, punctuation and inflective charm contain all the communicative apparatus of the finest oratory, bringing, to my ears at least, something entirely fresh to this sublime music.” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009 ***** “Gardiner’s Bachian zeal hovers over the performances: these are refreshingly unmannered accounts, brilliantly played... The Fourth — for violin and two recorders — and Fifth — with solo violin, flute and harpsichord — have rarely sounded more intimate, while the all-string concertos, the Third and the violinless Sixth, tingle with the spirit of baroque dance.” Sunday Times, 15th November 2009 **** “[Gardiner] lets his band get on with it and the results...are superb. The English Baroque Soloists, led by Kati Debretzeni, listen to each other like a jazz group, mirroring and echoing the other players, responding to subtle changes of dynamics or tempo.” The Telegraph, 13th January 2010 **** “…these performances are recognisable enough as being in the Gardiner mould. There is the usual clarity of texture and detail; few accounts of Nos 3 and 6 have such chiselled edges and unobtrusively assertive inner parts. Tempi are brisk, and while they are not hard-driven in the way they might have been 20 years ago, the finale of No 2 charges to a startlingly abrupt finish. ...these are undeniably Brandenburgs of flair and understanding.” Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 “this disc stands up on its own quite simply as a smashing performance that has evidently been recorded for sheer delight in the music...The ensemble playing is a model of cohesive teamwork, but the players also shine as individuals in the many virtuoso solo passages” Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 4th November 2009 | | | (also available to download from $21.75) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Igor Oistrakh (Soloist and Conductor) Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Igor Oistrakh is the soloist and conductor in these wonderful live performances recorded in 1982. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Gramophone Awards 2011
