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Anner Bylsma, Bob van Asperen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, J.C.F. Bach: Sonata A-Dur (1990)

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Anner Bylsma, Bob van Asperen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, J.C.F. Bach: Sonata A-Dur (1990)

Anner Bylsma, Bob van Asperen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, J.C.F. Bach: Sonata A-Dur (1990)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 51:22 | 500 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: SK 45945

That said, Anner Bylsma's disc gets a great deal more playing time. The timbre of the piccolo cello is ideally matched with the organ. While purists may balk at such unusual instrumentation, I cannot help but think such an experiment is quite in keeping with the spirit of Baroque era practices. In general, I try not to judge the success of a recording by a preconceived idea of what a musical elite would or would not approve of.

Christophe Rousset - J.S. Bach: English Suites (2004)

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Christophe Rousset - J.S. Bach: English Suites (2004)

Christophe Rousset - J.S. Bach: English Suites (2004)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:06:34 | 948 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naive | Catalog: 9942

Christophe Rousset's performances as a harpsichordist have attracted the attention of the international press as well as record companies. A member of 'Les Arts Florissants', then I'l Seminario Musicale', he finally embarked on a career as a music director, which led his to the form his own ensemble, 'Les Talents Lyriques', in 1991. This recording marks the beginning of a collaboration between Christophe Rousset and Ambroisie, especially with Bach.

moderntimes_1800 - Sinfonias From The Enlightment: Hasse, Graun, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, J. Haydn, Mozart (2008)

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moderntimes_1800 - Sinfonias From The Enlightment: Hasse, Graun, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, J. Haydn, Mozart (2008)

moderntimes_1800 - Sinfonias From The Enlightment: Hasse, Graun, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, J. Haydn, Mozart (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:33:14 | 483 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | Catalog: CC72193

The symphonic works featured on this 2CD set all come from a period during the second half of the eighteenth century that has come to be known as the “Age of Enlightenment” when Frederick the Second ruled over Prussia. Alongside acknowledged masterpieces by Mozart and Haydn, the program also includes pieces by Hasse, Graun and C.P.E Bach that are receiving their first ever recording. The music is performed by the rising stars of the Austrian Chamber Group “Modern Times_1800”.

Leonidas Kavakos, Peter Nagy - Stravinsky / Bach (2005)

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Leonidas Kavakos, Peter Nagy - Stravinsky / Bach (2005)

Leonidas Kavakos, Peter Nagy - Stravinsky / Bach (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 416 MB | 01:14:17
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series

Here's a conundrum: Leonidas Kavakos and Peter Nagy have selected two works each by J.S. Bach and Igor Stravinsky, for what seems a didactic demonstration of both composers' affinity for an objective "musical science"; yet the violinist and pianist deliver these works with so much feeling that their results seem quite subjective, and thereby undermine the presentation.

Risto Lauriala - J.S. Bach Transcriptions for Piano (2000)

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Risto Lauriala - J.S. Bach Transcriptions for Piano (2000)

Risto Lauriala - J.S. Bach: Transcriptions for Piano (2000)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:02:47 | 222 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8553761

Although there has always been some uproar about transcribing Bach's music, especially his keyboard music to piano, I see the Bach transcriptions as an eloquent homage to the old master. Arrangements and transcriptions have been made for over two hundred years and for the reason that Bach's music will always be effective on other mediums. Busoni and Godowsky were perhaps the greatest transcribers, with Liszt following closely behind. The piano is such a versatile instrument and can please both the Baroque enthusiasts and the Romantic lovers. Only the piano can imitate the fleeting polyphony and yet transform the music with sonorous beauty.

András Schiff - J.S. Bach: Two-Part Inventions, Three-Part Inventions (1985)

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András Schiff - J.S. Bach: Two-Part Inventions, Three-Part Inventions (1985)

András Schiff - J.S. Bach: Two-Part Inventions, Three-Part Inventions (1985)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) | Covers Included | 47:04 | 167 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 411974

The set of Inventions being reviewed here doesn’t suffer from any of these flaws – they are refined and musical and sound like Schiff is enjoying himself while playing them. The 2nd of the Three-Part Inventions is a sad, reflective piece in C minor and Schiff executes it with sensitivity and finesse, with a careful ear for the balance of the voices , with the upward and downward scale that Bach includes inserted into the texture with elegance. The next Invention, in D major, is completely different in feeling and Schiff makes it dance.

Pedro Burmester - Schumann, Schubert, Bach (3CD) (2011)

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Pedro Burmester - Schumann, Schubert, Bach (3CD) (2011)

Pedro Burmester - Schumann, Schubert, Bach (3CD) (2011)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:36:28 | 649 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 8 79157 2

Depois de vários anos descatalogados, os três álbuns que Pedro Burmester gravou para a etiqueta “EMI Classics”, são agora reeditados. Schumann “Kreisleriana”, Schubert “Sonata D 784” e Bach " Variações Goldberg" são os compositores e as obras eleitas por Pedro Burmester nestas três gravações dos finais dos anos 90.

Salvatore Accardo - J.S. Bach: Sonate No. 1-3, Partite No. 1-3 per violin solo (2007)

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Salvatore Accardo - J.S. Bach: Sonate No. 1-3, Partite No. 1-3 per violin solo (2007)

Salvatore Accardo - J.S. Bach: Sonate No. 1-3, Partite No. 1-3 per violin solo (2007)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 803 MB | 02:24:47
Genre: Classical | Label: Fonè Records

Salvatore Accardo is an outstanding Italian violin virtuoso, best known as a master of the works of Niccolò Paganini, but equally accomplished across a wide variety of repertory for the instrument. His playing is characterized by a taut, visceral tone and a disciplined musical approach that avoids self-indulgence. Having also established himself as a successful conductor, chamber musician, and teacher, Accardo may be considered one of the most accomplished and influential musicians of his generation.

Salvatore Accardo, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos, Double Concerto (2000)

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Salvatore Accardo, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos, Double Concerto (2000)

Salvatore Accardo, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos, Double Concerto (2000)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 430 MB | 01:12:48
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips

If you’re approaching these familiar Bach concertos for the first time, or want inexpensive performances that still provide decent musical rewards, then you won’t go far wrong with this Eloquence disc. Salvatore Accardo (who also directs the Chamber Orchestra of Europe) is soloist in the violin concertos in A minor and E major. Both are earnest, direct readings that hardly differ from Accardo’s EMI remakes.

Murray Perahia - J.S. Bach: Piano Concertos Nos.1, 2 & 4 (2001)

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Murray Perahia - J.S. Bach: Piano Concertos Nos.1, 2 & 4 (2001)

Murray Perahia - J.S. Bach: Piano Concertos Nos.1, 2 & 4 (2001)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 52:58 | 258 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: SK89245

Soloist-conducted piano concertos can sometimes mean compromise, even chaos…but not in this case. Indeed, the playing of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Murray Perahia is even sprightlier than on a rival EMI recording of the same repertoire where Sir Neville Marriner conducts and Andrei Gavrilov plays the keyboard part. As soloist, Perahia is his usual stylish, discreet and pianistically refined self. He takes the D minor Concerto’s opening at a fair lick, a hot-foot sprinter embellishing the line with taste and affecting a little ritardando at 3'21 (just as the mood momentarily brightens) a la Edwin Fischer.

Timo Korhonen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Solo Violin (2009)

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Timo Korhonen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Solo Violin (2009)

Timo Korhonen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Solo Violin (2009)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 56:06 | 275 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1128-2

J.S. Bach's sonatas for solo violin, part of a long tradition of virtuoso works for the instrument, seem unsuited to transcription. But a guitar comes closer than perhaps any other instrument: it embodies a tension – not the same tension as with a solo violin but a tension nonetheless – between melodic material and polyphony. In the hands of Finnish guitarist Timo Korhonen they produce an unusual effect.

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra - J.S. Bach: Wedding Cantatas (2008)

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Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra - J.S. Bach: Wedding Cantatas (2008)

Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra - J.S. Bach: Wedding Cantatas (2008)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 376 MB | 01:14:28
Genre: Classical | Label: Challenge Classics

Though only one cantata gets to bear the nickname, Bach actually wrote many works that could be described as wedding cantatas. Some of them are lost, others are of debatable authorship, but of those that remain, four are collected on this 2008 disc. The performances by Ton Koopman leading the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir are taken from their set of the complete extant cantatas with the four works here recorded in 1994, 1996, and 2002. Though Koopman has shown himself to be a master Bach conductor, one sometimes got the sense in listening to his sacred cantatas that the composer's Lutheran ethos sat less well with his naturally ebullient personality than did the far more cheerful secular cantatas.

Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini - J.S. Bach: Variations on Variations (2017)

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Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini - J.S. Bach: Variations on Variations (2017)

Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini - J.S. Bach: Variations on Variations (2017)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:08:17 | 390 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naïve | Catalog: OP 30575

In this programme entitled Variations on Variations, Rinaldo Alessandrini, one of the today’s references on Baroque music, has chosen to adapt the Goldberg Variations and the Aria variata alla maniera italiana - initially composed for the keyboard - for small string ensemble, from duo to quartet.

Vladimir Horowitz - Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart (2003)

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Vladimir Horowitz - Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart (2003)

Vladimir Horowitz - Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:06 | 268 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: 90439

A pianist of legendary fame and stature, Vladimir Horowitz was born in Kiev, Ukraine. His mother, herself a professional pianist, provided his first instruction at the piano and was the first to recognize his extraordinary talents; he studied further at the Kiev Conservatory. His first public appearance was a recital in Kiev on May 30, 1920, and in 1922 he gave a series of 15 concerts in Kharkov for which he was paid in food and clothing.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Bach: Musica Sacra (2016)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Bach: Musica Sacra (2016)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Bach: Musica Sacra (2016)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 772 MB | 02:33:59
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Label: Warner Classics

Für ihn war Musik „Klangrede“, die uns auch nach jahrhundertelanger Vertrautheit noch eine Menge zu sagen hat. Als der Dirigent Nikolaus Harnoncourt am 5. März starb, verlor die Welt eine Musikerpersönlichkeit, die wie keine andere das Repertoire von Bach bis Gershwin, von Monteverdi bis Bruckner völlig neu zu beleuchten verstand. Lange war Harnoncourt mit seinem Ensemble Concentus Musicus Wien dem einstigen Warner-Label Teldec verbunden.