Jazz Sebastian Bach, Vol. 1
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Composer: Johann Sebastian BachEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-04-24
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080: Fugue in D Minor
- Schubler's Book, BWV 645: Choral No.1 'Wake, Arise, The Voices Call Us'
- Orchestral Suite No.3 in D, BWV 1068: Aria
- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 880: Prelude No.11 in F Major
- English Suite No.2 in A Minor, BWV 807: Bourree
- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 871: Fugue No.2 in C Minor
- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 850: Fugue No.5 in D Major
- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 878: Prelude No.9
- Partita No.2 in C Minor, BWV 826: Sinfonia
- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 870: Prelude No.1 in C Major
- Canon
- Two-Part Invention No.1 in C Major: BWV 772
- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 874: Fugue No.5 in D Major
Music reviews of Jazz Sebastian Bach, Vol. 1
Music Review: why settle for less?
Rating: 3 Stars
This is the straight reissue of the Swingle Singers' very first LP, published in France in 1963 under the title "Jazz Sébastien Bach" and in the US as "Bach's Greatest Hits". It was a great LP and remains a great recording. I've contended in my other reviews of the Swingle Singers that, besides the pleasure of any transcription (enabling you to hear the old warhorses in new and ear-catching timbral guise, like having your wife show up in a new sexy lingery, adding new thrills to the old routine), what makes their arrangements and realizations so fascinating is two things: first, they elevate to the status of high art what we all do, inadvertently, without even thinking about it, in a very rudimentary manner, walking on the street, washing the dishes, ironing or vacuuming - and, of course, showering: humming our favorite tunes. Second, they return instrumental music to its very essence and origin: the human voice. Presumably Bach (and Mozart, and Vivaldi) first hummed these tunes to themselves before committing them to the music sheet, and it is in the name of this essence and origin that it is expected of instrumentalists to make their instrument sing, even when their acoustical properties are radically different from those of the voice, like the plucked-string-harpsichord or the struck-string piano.
Fine then. But Universal is really milking the cow here. The original LP was no more than 32-minutes long, and this is what you get here. I simply don't get the point of these "original jacket collection" type of reissues. What's the point of getting 30 minutes on a CD when you can pair two LPs and give us 60 or more? Just for getting the glands of nostalgia of the older, LP-raised generation to salivate? I'm not listening to this for nostalgia, but because it spurs my enthusiasm, now, here and today! So I want more of it per CD.
And in fact, this is exactly what Polygram did in the early 1990s, when they first reissued that LP: they paired it with the Swingle's Bach sequel, first published in 1968: and that CD is still available at the time of writing, at very affordable prices: Jazz Sebastian Bach. So, quite frankly, I don't see who would want to buy the present disc. Why settle for less?
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