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Offer, JS Bach: Violin Concertos
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Isabelle Faust (violin), Bernhard Forck, (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Faust's tone is both lean and exquisitely sweet, combined with consistent stylistic elegance which reaches the heights of eloquence in the slow movement of the E major Concerto. — More…
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The [Goldberg] Aria sings without affectation as if to emphasise that what follows isn't about the theme but what happens to it...Unstarchy too is Levit's approach to Beethoven's Diabelli Variations...As... — More…
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This crack squad of first-rate period-instrument musicians gives lithe, polished and devoted performances that make a convincing case for a one-to-a-part "orchestra". Indeed, so full-bodied is... — More…
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Offer, Bach, J S: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051
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European Brandenburg Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock (director)
Like Pinnock's earlier set with the English Concert, the newcomer… displays Pinnock's seemingly unassailable ability to choose an effective, just tempo for each movement, and his infectious rhythmic... — More…
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Offer, Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
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Emma Kirkby (soprano I), Emily Van Evera (soprano II), Panito Iconomou (alto), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), David Thomas (bass)
Solisten Des Tölzer Knabenchors, Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott
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Offer, Bach - Concertos for Several Instruments, Vol. 1
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Pablo Valetti, Amandine Beyer, Claire Cachia, David Plantier (violins), Diana Baroni (flute), Antoine (oboe d'amore), Patricia Gagnon, Sabine Bouthinon (violas), Petr Skalka (cello), Ludek Brany (double bass), Céline Fritsch (harpsichord)
Café Zimmermann
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Offer, Bach Cantatas Volume 10
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Cantatas for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity and for the Feast of the Reformation
Joanne Lunn, William Towers, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
…Gardiner's lively and articulate responses to Bach's dance rhythms… refresh and enliven the music, often in a quite distinctive way. The mighty fugal chorus of Ein Feste Burg (BWV 80) comes... — More…
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Offer, Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
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Maria Keohane (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Jan Kobow (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen
To my mind, Mortensen’s special performance, which is full to the brim with insightful musicianship and has a refreshing avoidance of contrived formulas, comfortably joins Parrott (EMI), Junghänel... — More…
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
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Christine Schäfer, Dorothea Röschmann, Bernarda Fink, Elisabeth von Magnus, Christoph Prégardien, Michael Schade, Markus Schäfer, Matthias Görne, Dietrich Henschel, Oliver Widmer
Vienna Boys' Choir, Schoenberg Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Whatever your likes or dislikes in the Goldbergs, Schiff will surely elicit a positive reaction, more so than with his 1982 Decca recording, which, though similarly felicitous, had little of... — More…
