Bach - The Complete Brandenburg Concertos / Pearlman, Boston Baroque

Our Price: $42.66
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $17.34 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details

CD Details

Music reviews of Bach - The Complete Brandenburg Concertos / Pearlman, Boston Baroque

Music Review: The Best Brandenburg Concerti Recording
Rating: 5 Stars

The Brandenburg Concerti: Six musical works in total. They were unsurpassed in their time. The fact that this recording features period instruments makes the quality of sound even greater. What we hear is exactly what thos aristocratic crowds heard in the 1600's with Bach himself conducting no doubt. The period instruments for this time were- brasses: trumpet and tuba, woodwinds: flute, clarinets, oboes; strings: violins, violas, cellos and the keyboard instrument was the harpsichord. Each concerto showcases the tone color and dynamics of each instrument. The Concerto No. 2 is a great display of trumpet music at one point and the No. 3 epitomizes the sheer elegance and lavish sound of the Baroque Age itself. The opening allegro to the 3rd is very famous. The Concerto No. 5 is a long-winded work of music that encompasses instrumental variety- even a lengthy solo for harpsichord, which is very virtuosic and seemingly difficult to play. This is the recording to get, especially because it remains true to the original sound of the period instruments. Other than Martin Pearlman and the Boston Baroque, Sir Neville Marriner and The Academy Of St. Martins-In-The-Fields deliver an incredible performance, as one review claimed. But to each his own. Some like John Elliot Gardiner's renditions, which are usually lazer-sharp and faster, the heavenly and skillful mastership of the Baroque is captured perfectly with the Orchestra Revolutionare Et Romantique or The Revolutionary And Romantic Orchestra, and Baroque music always comes off superbly in Camerata groups and Chamber Ensembles like I Musici. The featured violinist here is Daniel Stepner.

Classical CDs

• Music > Styles