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BBC MUSIC MAG VOL 5 #4 BACH MAGNIFICAT & CHRISTMAS O CD
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SDG is delighted to present
Volume 12 – Cantatas for the
twenty-second and twenty-third
Sundays after trinity.
The highlight of this album is
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
(Sleepers, wake) one of Bach’s
best known cantatas and one that
has long been part of the
Monteverdi Choir’s repertoire. It is
described as ‘a cantata without
weaknesses, without a dull bar,
technically, emotionally and
spiritually of the highest order’.
Bwv1051, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
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Elegance is the quality in Pierre Fournier’s playing that makes the first and, ultimately, the most lasting impression. He finds great depth in the suites, but he shows constant awareness that he is playing mostly dance music (usually, and importantly, French dance music), that joy is its most important underlying emotion and that graceful movement and rhythmic fluency are essential. –Joe McLellan… More >>
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John Eliot Gardiner’s Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine award-winning Bach Cantata series on SDG continues with Cantatas, vol. 4. This release features five Cantatas for the Sixth and Seventh Sunday after Trinity (BWV 9, 107, 170, 186, and 187), recorded live at the prestigious Ansbach Bach Festival and at St. Mary’s church in Haddington, Scotland in July and August 2000. Also included is a favorite encore work, the motet Der Gerechte kommt um. Once attributed to Ba… More >>
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Leopold Stokowski’s Orchestral Transcriptions are guilty pleasures: high-fat concoctions that are always in danger of becoming campy and gargantuan, something like the classical equivalent of Phil Spector, but without the guns. It is crucial to almost (and I mean “almost”) underplay them; they will speak for themselves. The transcriptions are not particularly complicated and lack anything even vaguely revolutionary in their tonality. What we get is a wall of string tone ca… More >>
Milos Jurkovic – Flute Slovak Chamber Orchestra Bohdan Warchal
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Helene Grimaud presents her first-ever Bach recording! Once again, charismatic Helene Grimaud presents an album with an individual concept. Bach vs. Bach Transcribed brings together original keyboard works by the master with works by Bach arranged (transcribed) for the piano by pianist-composers of later generations: Busoni, Liszt & Rachmaninov. This is the first time that Hélène Grimaud has recorded Bach – a challenge for any musician. The repertoire includes the f… More >>
