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Johann Sebastian Bach: Transcriptions

Ensemble Contraste

Classical - Released February 25, 2013 | La Dolce Volta

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Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Alfred Brendel

Classical - Released June 10, 2008 | Musical Concepts

This collection of Beethoven's four most popular piano sonatas may not be every listener's first choice for the works -- there are, after all, great recordings out there stretching from Schnabel through Kempff to Pollini -- but it may be the first choice for many Alfred Brendel fans. These were the Moravian pianist's first recordings of the "Pathétique," "Moonlight," "Les Adieux," and "Appassionata" sonatas, and in many ways, they were his best. Part of the reason is that Brendel's virtuosity was in top form when these recordings were taped in Vienna for Vox in the '60s, and his execution of such well-known terrors as the finales of the "Moonlight" and "Appassionata" is almost unbearably thrilling. But a bigger part of the reason is that Brendel was much less intellectual and far more instinctive in these recordings than he was in his many later recordings for Philips, and his dramatic tempo and texture shifts in the opening of the "Pathétique" are far more exciting here than in his later recordings. Fans of the pianist might wish that the stereo sound here had some of the crispness and clarity of his later Philips' recordings, but these recordings have a rough honesty that is still quite appealing. © TiVo
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Musica Nuda - My Favorite Tunes

Musica Nuda

Vocal Jazz - Released June 14, 2019 | Bonsaï Music

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Bach : Contemplation

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released January 8, 2009 | Mirare

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Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 by Otto Klemperer

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released March 4, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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Bach : St Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion)

René Jacobs

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released October 7, 2013 | harmonia mundi

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Minstrel in the Gallery

Jethro Tull

Rock - Released September 1, 1975 | Rhino

Minstrel in the Gallery was Tull's most artistically successful and elaborately produced album since Thick as a Brick and harked back to that album with the inclusion of a 17-minute extended piece ("Baker Street Muse"). Although English folk elements abound, this is really a hard rock showcase on a par with -- and perhaps even more aggressive than -- anything on Aqualung. The title track is a superb showcase for the group, freely mixing folk melodies, lilting flute passages, and archaic, pre-Elizabethan feel, and the fiercest electric rock in the group's history -- parts of it do recall phrases from A Passion Play, but all of it is more successful than anything on War Child. Martin Barre's attack on the guitar is as ferocious as anything in the band's history, and John Evan's organ matches him amp for amp, while Barriemore Barlow and Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond hold things together in a furious performance. Anderson's flair for drama and melody come to the fore in "Cold Wind to Valhalla," and "Requiem" is the loveliest acoustic number in Tull's repertory, featuring nothing but Anderson's singing and acoustic guitar, Hammond-Hammond's bass, and a small string orchestra backing them. "Nothing at All" isn't far behind for sheer, unabashed beauty, but "Black Satin Dancer" is a little too cacophonous for its own good. "Baker Street Muse" recalls Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play, not only in its structure but a few passages; at slightly under 17 minutes, it's a tad more manageable than either of its conceptual predecessors, and it has all of their virtues, freely overlapping hard rock and folk material, classical arrangements (some of the most tasteful string playing on a Tull recording), surprising tempo shifts, and complex stream-of-consciousness lyrics (some of which clearly veer into self-parody) into a compelling whole.© Bruce Eder /TiVo
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Bach: Cantatas 54, 82 & 170 "Widerstehe", "Ich habe genug" & "Vergnügte Ruh"

Iestyn Davies

Classical - Released December 30, 2016 | Hyperion

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J.S. Bach : Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (Passion selon saint Matthieu)

Philippe Herreweghe

Classical - Released July 31, 2007 | harmonia mundi

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J.S. Bach : St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

John Eliot Gardiner

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released March 3, 2017 | SDG

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Recorded live at Pisa Cathedral in 2016, this recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, is of a piece with the touring Bach Cantata Pilgrimage recordings released in the early 2000s: it is rich yet lively, sung with precision yet a total sense of commitment in the moment. The singers -- the Monteverdi Choir of 30 with soloists all drawn from the choir, except for Jesus (Stephan Loges) and the Evangelist (James Gilchrist) -- performed from memory, and the feeling that the text is being communicated directly is even greater than is usual with Gardiner. An unusual feature of the recording is that the soloists are not single per part; the soprano solos are taken by no fewer than five different singers. Several (try Hannah Morrison in "Aus liebe") are lovely, and the effect of a space between the congregational chorales and the focus on an individual soloist is fascinating. The hair-trigger alertness of the chorus in the big numbers like "Sind Blitze, sind Donner in Wolken verschwunden?" is also extremely compelling. Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir offer Bach with the luxury of old-fashioned Romantic versions combined with the agility of historical performance, and they've never done the combination better than they do here. © TiVo
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J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Bach Collegium Japan

Classical - Released February 7, 2020 | BIS

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“A great joy”: this is how Masaaki Suzuki considers this, his second recording of the St. Matthew’s Passion, made twenty years after the first one, in the Saitama Arts Theatre in Japan in April 2019 for the BIS label. A great opportunity to revisit the work, as in the elapsed time, the conductor and his orchestra have nearly completely recorded Bach’s choral music, including the complete masses and secular and sacred cantatas. As is his custom, Suzuki works with European soloists for this new recording, like the splendid young German tenor Benjamin Bruns, playing the stupendous part of the Evangelist. There are other familiar soloists that feature here, such as Carolyn Sampson, Damien Guillon, Makoto Sakurada and Christian Immler. There is nothing monumental about this new intimate and refined version, which follows the fateful narrative with great sobriety. There is nevertheless a fervent level of impulse, as well as a certain innocence within this resolutely pared back Lutheran perspective - there is never any real search for theatricality. The exceptional instrumental quality of the soloists of the Bach Collegium Japan and the soft touches of the two choral ensembles is also worth highlighting. © François Hudry / Qobuz
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Bach : St Matthew Passion (Édition 5.1)

René Jacobs

Classical - Released October 7, 2013 | harmonia mundi

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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Bach: Cantatas BWV 54, 170

David Bates

Sacred Vocal Music - Released March 24, 2017 | harmonia mundi

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Cantate Domino - La Cappella Sistina e la musica dei Papi

Sistine Chapel Choir

Classical - Released September 25, 2015 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Cantate Domino, a 2015 release on Deutsche Grammophon, is the first commercial studio recording of the Sistine Chapel Choir, led by Massimo Palombella, which has until now been heard only in live recordings of varying quality. The program is a mix of Gregorian chants and motets that have long been a part of the Sistine Chapel's liturgical music, including works by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Orlande de Lassus, Felice Anerio, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and perhaps most famously, Gregorio Allegri, whose Miserere was once exclusively performed by the choir. This recording features the original fauxbourdon version of the Miserere, found in the Sistine Codex of 1661, which differs from later arrangements and adaptations in its austere simplicity and lack of abbellimenti or ornamentation, such as the famous "top C" passage which many might expect. The sound of the antiphonally divided choir may seem lopsided in this recording, since the remote singers are rather soft and distant in the chapel's echoic acoustics, and the long reverberation time tends to blur their words, so following the enclosed text is helpful. © TiVo
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J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Gaechinger Cantorey

Classical - Released March 5, 2021 | Accentus Music

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"The St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the greatest works in the history of music. Whenever I study this epochal composition, I always ask myself the question: How can a work of music, which is performed each year in thousands of performances, has been scientifically and artistically interpreted for decades, and worshiped for centuries, remain a new, contemporary, and at the same time universal and supreme idea? It can be achieved if that which is defined as established and comprehensive, and appears or is accepted as unshakeable, is set in motion without capping the connections to the work itself and its musical- historical, intellectual and theological foundations", says Hans-Christoph Rademann about one of the monumental sacred works of music history. In November 2020, Rademann and the Gächinger Cantorey ensemble and chorus, together with an extraordinary group of soloists, set out to lend a new and fresh perspective to Bach's timeless masterpiece of raging choirs, intimate chorales, and emotionally charged arias, which, with its drama and pictorial quality, allows the listener to experience the well-known Passion story again and again as something completely new and unheard-of. © Accentus Music
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J.S. Bach: 6 Cello Suites, BWVV 1007-1012

Sergey Malov

Classical - Released April 10, 2020 | Solo Musica

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Bach: The English Suites BWV806-811

Paolo Zanzu

Classical - Released April 3, 2020 | Musica Ficta

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Having studied with the greatest performers and teachers, Paolo Zanzu is now one of the major figures in the harpsichord world in Europe and in the world. He is an inspiration as a teacher and a concert artist. Of the three great collections of keyboard suites that Bach produced, the English Suites were probably written first – around 1720 at Köthen. While we may marvel at their imposing architecture, along with their lyricism unfettered by formal constraints, or indeed the tender grace of their galanteries, what really makes these pieces unique is their power, their grandeur and above all their unbridled virtuosity, which together make them a landmark in the keyboard repertoire. © Musica Ficta
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Tatiana Nikolayeva plays Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Classical - Released January 1, 1982 | Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga Musica

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Johann Sebastian Bach : Cantatas for alto solo

Andreas Scholl - Philippe Herreweghe

Cantatas (sacred) - Released January 1, 1998 | harmonia mundi

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Bach: Cantatas BWV 170 & 169, Sacred Arias, Sacred Lieder

Aafje Heynis

Classical - Released July 7, 2022 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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