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Bach
From Authentic to Outrageous
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Suite No. 3 (Overture)
2. Mass in B Minor (Et In Spiritum Sanctum)
3. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Allegro)
4. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Affetuoso)
5. Suite No. 3 (Air)
6. Fantasia in C Minor
7. Partita IV: Sarabande
8. Partita IV: Aria
9. Cantata 140: Wachet Auf Chorale (Zion Hort): Chorus - Wachet auf , ruft uns die Stimme
10. Cantata 140: Wachet Auf Chorale (Zion Hort): Chorus - Zion hort die Wachet singen
11. Ricercare: Fuga from the Musical Offering
12. Toccata and Fugue

CD Details

All Artists: Bach
Title: From Authentic to Outrageous
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Koch Int'l Classics
Release Date: 9/24/1996
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Fantasies, Suites, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Keyboard, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 099923761020

Synopsis

Amazon.com

The following comes from the liner notes to this CD: "While there have been composers more prodigious in output than the great German baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach, it seems safe to say that no other composer's work has been so malleable to a greater variety of approaches and treatments." Your first though might be, Poor Bach! Especially when you think of what's been done to his music over the years. So it's a happy surprise that the excerpts of famous interpreters doing Bach here are rich and gratifying--well worth a listen. From the halting and swooping Cortot/Thibaud/Cortet rendering of the Affetuoso from the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 to the excellent selections performed by the American Bach Soloists, this disc is truly mind-expanding. --Gwendolyn Freed

CD Reviews

A beautiful version of the air.

simon Claessen | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | 05/25/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"A few weeks ago I bought a collection old 78 rpm disks in very good shape. all classic music in their original books. most of them concerts spanning 5 to 6 disks, but also some lone disks in blank paper sleeve. One of them was Air of the suite #3 of Bach, played by the "Philharmonische orchester, Berlin" and conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler in 1929.After hearing this version of the Air (a very slow one) all the other versions seem complete pointless and doing no good to the composition. The way Furtwangler gives the melody space to grow and breath is excellent.
I do not own this cd, only the original 78 rpm disk, so I cannot comment on the other titles on the cd, but the presents of the Furtwangler version of the Air is enough to buy the cd.tip: there is a preview of this title. listen to it!"