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Naxos Bach Edition 2 - Bach: Violin Concertos / Müller-brühl

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Details

Composer
BACH J.S.
Artist
Lis, Christine, Stewart, Helmut, Pichlmeier, Kolja, Müller-Brühl, Blacher
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Jan 01, 2000
Catalog #
8554603
UPC
636943460320

About

Bach's three surviving violin concertos--the A minor, E major, and D minor ("double")--have long enjoyed standard repertoire status, and their continued popularity with audiences has made them fair game for almost every violinist of note with a recording contract. Fortunately for listeners, these works generally have been treated extremely well and the catalog consistently offers numerous fine performances, on both period and modern instruments. These new performances, featuring three outstanding young violinists, are part of Naxos' ongoing traversal of the "complete orchestral works of Bach", and they easily hold their own among the far more illustrious competition. Kolja Blacher, who performs the solo concertos, is a brilliant and commanding presence who makes Bach's not-to-be-taken-lightly lines really sing and dance and occasionally spark. His colleagues, Christine Pichlmeier and Lisa Stewart, deliver a D minor "double concerto" that's both agile and lyrical. The interplay is a real dialogue, especially rich through the second movement suspensions and dissonances, and especially exciting in the stretto-filled third movement.


Most Bach violin recordings fill out the program with one of the harpsichord concerto reconstructions--that is, a piece that modern scholarship suggests originally was a violin concerto but that Bach later reworked and for which the violin original is now lost. Here we get the D minor concerto BWV 1052, a famous harpsichord piece that is rarely performed in this version, and that in the hands of Blacher and his Cologne partners sounds every bit like it belongs with the rest of Bach's violin masterpieces.
--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 03:21
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kolja Blacher
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl
  2. 2 II. Andante 05:32
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    05:32
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kolja Blacher
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl
  3. 3 III. Allegro assai 03:36
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro assai
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kolja Blacher
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl
  4. 4 I. Allegro 07:14
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    07:14
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kolja Blacher
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl
  5. 5 II. Adagio 05:38
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    05:38
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kolja Blacher
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl
  6. 6 III. Allegro assai 02:44
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro assai
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kolja Blacher
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl
  7. 7 I. Allegro 07:23
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    07:23
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kolja Blacher
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl
  8. 8 II. Adagio 06:10
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    06:10
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kolja Blacher
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl
  9. 9 III. Allegro 07:27
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    07:27
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kolja Blacher
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl
  10. 10 I. Vivace 03:36
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Vivace
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Christine Pichlmeier, Lisa Stewart
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl
  11. 11 II. Largo ma non tanto 06:24
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Largo ma non tanto
    Duration
    06:24
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Christine Pichlmeier, Lisa Stewart
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl
  12. 12 III. Allegro 04:43
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Christine Pichlmeier, Lisa Stewart
    Ensemble
    Kölner Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Helmut Müller-Brühl