From Authentic to Outrageous Bach

1. Suite for orchestra No 3 in D major, BWV 1068 Overture
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Boston Early Music Soloists
Conducted by William Malloch

2. Mass in B minor, BWV 232 Et in Spiritum Sanctum
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with American Bach Soloists , William Sharp

3. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050a Allegro
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Robert Wolinsky , Bargemusic

4. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050a Affetuoso
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Alfred Cortot , Jacques Thibaud , Roger Cortet

5. Suite for orchestra No 3 in D major, BWV 1068 Air
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler

6. Fantasia and Fugue for keyboard in C minor, BWV 906 Fantasia
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Harold Samuel

7. Partita for keyboard No. 4 in D major, BWV 828
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Charlotte Mattax

8. Cantata No. 140, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme," BWV 140 Chorus: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with American Bach Soloists

9. Cantata No. 140, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme," BWV 140 Chorale: Zion hört die Wächet singen
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with American Bach Soloists

10. Musikalisches Opfer (Musical Offering), BWV 1079 Ricercare: Fuga
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Conducted by James Sedares

11. Toccata and Fugue for organ in D minor, BWV 565 Orchestrated by Stokowski
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Conducted by James Sedares

Product Description

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

Tracks:

Suite No. 3 (Overture)
Mass in B Minor (Et In Spiritum Sanctum)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Allegro)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Affetuoso)
Suite No. 3 (Air)
Fantasia in C Minor
Partita IV: Sarabande
Partita IV: Aria
Cantata 140: Wachet Auf Chorale (Zion Hort): Chorus - Wachet auf , ruft uns die Stimme
Cantata 140: Wachet Auf Chorale (Zion Hort): Chorus - Zion hort die Wachet singen
Ricercare: Fuga from the Musical Offering
Toccata and Fugue

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

Customer Reviews:

A beautiful version of the air........2003-05-26

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!

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