Review by JJ December 6, 2014 (2 of 4 found this review helpful)
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The English violinist Rachel Podger here offers stunning testimony of her love of Bach’s music, a kind of discographic pinnacle, if such a thing could exist. “For the second recording by Brecon Baroque, we have chosen to continue with a Bach program, this time composed of double and triple concertos with an orchestra made up for the ripieno of a single instrumentalist per part.” The result is confounding in tonal beauty, fitting breath and marvelous phrasing, in the image of that which of Bach’s sons reported: “During his youth and until old age, my father played the violin in a way that was clean and penetrating, and thus kept the orchestra more orderly than he would have from the keyboard.” On the program are thus the Concerto for Two Violins BWV 1043, the Concerto for Keyboard, Flute and Violin BWV 1044, the Concerto for Violin and Oboe BWV 1060R, and the Concerto for Three Violins BWV 1064R. Here is an SACD of the first order devoted to the Cantor from Leipzig.
Jean-Jacques Millo Translation Lawrence Schulman
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