MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4, BWV1066-1069
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4, BWV1066-1069
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra [Freiburger Barockorchester]
[ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 December 2011
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Gramophone Awards 2012 Best of Category - Baroque Instrumental
"it's exuberant and stylish, laced with felicitous insights into Bach's sophisticated take on the French style" (BBC Music)
MARBECKS STAFF PICKS 2012
"In the Freiburg Orchestra's exhilaraing account, the soft-grained Baroque flute which gilds the B minor Suite certainly fits well with the 'small is beautiful' impulse...Its reading may lack sensational revelations, but it's exuberant and stylish, laced with felicitous insights into Bach's sophisticated take on the French style...the dances leap off the page and overtures crackle with incisive declamation."
(BBC Music)
Gramophone Award WINNER 2012 Best of Category - Baroque Instrumental
Called "Ouvertüren" in Germany, because they began with a large-scale overture à la française, Bach's 'Suites for orchestra' offer a unique synthesis of the French and the Italian styles. The Leipzig Cantor did not content himself with a mere set of amiable dances for his Collegium Musicum: he revived the genre in his own manner, accenting the contrasts, refining the orchestration, and introducing a hitherto unknown contrapuntal element. Two centuries later these joyous orchestral works represent an indispensable treasure of the Baroque.
Radio 3 (UK) CD review - Disc of the week: October 2011
