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31.Julian Bream Plays Dowland And Bach by: Julian Bream Golden Age Singers Margaret Field-Hyde June 16, 2008
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I am really surprised that Julian Bream's first recordings of Dowland and Bach - recorded by Westminster - have taken so long to appear on CD. They are beautiful performances and sound better than ever in this new remastering. Bream's love for this music is self-evident but he is not self-indulgent and his playing is a model of restraint and refinement. I have never heard Dowland's great 'Fantasia' sound better; the other lute pieces are, in my opinion, better played than in Bream's later RCA recordings. The Bach, especially the 'Chaconne' is equally enjoyable and the added Dowland ayres - where Bream accompanies the Golden Age Singers - are a delghtful addition to a very attractive anthology. Highly recommended.

32.Bach - Works for Trumpet by: Alison Balsom January 09, 2006
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Released in January 2006, this is the second CD from Alison Balsom - the third if you include The fam'd Italian master' released on the Hyperion label in 2003, which was music performed by various brass players and The Parley of Instruments group. The title itself is interesting. It suggests that all the works are written by Bach, but this is only partially true, and none of them were originally scored for the trumpet. In fact, Bach wrote no works specifically for solo trumpet, only pieces such as the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 can be found as possible examples of Bach's affinity to the instrument. The two pieces not wholly Bach are the concerto in D, written as a violin concerto by Vivaldi, and the concerto in C minor by Marcello. ... Read More:

33.Bach: Cantatas, Vol 1 /Gardiner from: Monteverdi January 03, 2005
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This 2-disc set is numbered 1 in Gardiner's great `pilgrimage' through the entire collection of Bach's surviving cantatas, but put not your trust in numbers where this series is concerned. The performances were recorded on the liturgical dates for which they were composed throughout the calendar year 2000, and the Feast of St John the Baptist and the first Sunday after Trinity fall just after midsummer. This issue has some claim to primacy from the sheer amount of music that it contains - several of the cantatas here are exceptionally long, and each disc contains an hour and a quarter of music. I found the same things to admire here as I have found in all my growing collection of the pilgrimage issues. The style is impeccable, the execution ... Read More:

34.Bach - Mass in B minor from: EMI Classics May 09, 2005
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This 2-disc set is numbered 1 in Gardiner's great `pilgrimage' through the entire collection of Bach's surviving cantatas, but put not your trust in numbers where this series is concerned. The performances were recorded on the liturgical dates for which they were composed throughout the calendar year 2000, and the Feast of St John the Baptist and the first Sunday after Trinity fall just after midsummer. This issue has some claim to primacy from the sheer amount of music that it contains - several of the cantatas here are exceptionally long, and each disc contains an hour and a quarter of music. I found the same things to admire here as I have found in all my growing collection of the pilgrimage issues. The style is impeccable, the execution ... Read More:

35.Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier from: Hyperion August 28, 2007
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The 48 Preludes and Fugues form one of Bach's greatest works for the keyboard. There is a vast range of pieces which are charming, dramatic, joyful, melancholy...you name it. They are all beautifully done with Bach's unrivalled counterpoint and sense of structure and are an unalloyed pleasure from the famous and lovely first Prelude from Book One to the mighty, intense B minor fugue which concludes Book Two. Angela Hewitt plays Bach superbly. Her work has attracted universal admiration, and these discs show why. Her technique is impeccable, so that each line is perfectly articulated while blending ideally with the others. She respects and conveys the structure of the music while bringing out its wonderful range of emotions and colours. There ... Read More:

36.Bach: Two- and Three-Part Inventions (The Glenn Gould Edition) from: Sony Classics March 08, 1993
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Fast pieces, absolutely mind blowing. Slow Sinfonias, totally captivating & stranscendentally subtle. A must for any fans!

37.J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio · St. Matthew Passion · St. John Passion · Mass in B minor by: English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner April 14, 2003
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The other reviews here show that this is obviously a Marmite set - you either love it or you hate it. Me, I love it I treasure it and play it often. In such circumstances another review may not be of that much help to an undecided prospective purchaser because you can't know in advance whose taste you share, but for what it's worth: The treasure of this set for me is the B Minor Mass. It has been described as the greatest work of art in any medium ever and while that may be a rather overblown claim it isn't wholly indefensible. Gardiner's interpretation does it proud. It has intensity, intellectual weight, a deep respect for the work and, above all, radiant beauty. I love it. I also have the Andrew Parrott recording (now available very reasonably ... Read More:

38.Bach - Goldberg Variations from: Hyperion January 01, 2000
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Bach wrote very, very few variation compositions like the "Goldberg Variations," but the one's he wrote are most memorable and monumental. Early in his career, he wrote a magnificant "Aria with Variations in the Italian Manner" (BWV989). Its repeating aria at the end along with the alternating fast/bright and slow/contemplative variations foreshadowed a model in these so-called Goldberg Variations - one of the 'summation works' Bach wrote late in his life while at Leipzig. (Angela Hewitt's spirited recording of this Aria/Variations BVW 989 is on her Hyperion CD: "Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor and Other Works"). With an ever-increasing quiver of splendid recordings of Bach's keyboard music, it is not hard to believe that Angela Hewitt ... Read More:

39.Bach: Cello Suites and Transcriptions from: Naxos October 01, 1999
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Casals was a perfectionist (and, by all accounts, a lovely human being) and took a lot of pursuasion to record these famous takes of the Bach cello suites in the late 1930s. I can add little to the other reviewers comments about these magical recordings except to say that they sound almost "modern" in their almost cinematic approach. What I mean is that these recordings sound very visual and I belive that Casals had specific images in mind as he played each one, such as Christ on the road to Calvary during suite 5. Unbeatable. These careful restorations from old 78s sound great and have not been over-processed in this bargain 2-CD Naxos set. An essential purchase!

40.Bach - Funeral Cantatas by: Nancy Argenta Michael Chance Anthony Rolfe Johnson Stephen Varcoe English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner The Monteverdi Choir April 16, 2000
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Like all the other Eliot Gardiner Bach recordings I have heard, this one hits the nail absolutely on the head. The playing is always precise and clearly articulated, while the tempi are, to me, perfectly judged, never allowing the more solemn pieces to slip into sentimentality. The forces that are used are not so large as to muddy any of the individual parts, but can still convey the power of the music where appropriate. The recording is beautifully balanced, allowing all the lines to be heard clearly. Perhaps the best compliment I can pay this recording is to say that it allows the listener to appreciate 100% of the music, with no detail being lost in performance or recording. I have bought a number of the Eliot Gardiner recordings from their 2000 Bach Pilgrimage Tour ... Read More:

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