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This album does not, needless to say, offer a new set of undiscovered Bach Brandenburg Concertos. What's less clear is that it also isn't the "reconstruction" promised in the album graphics. There are reasons to believe that a good deal of Bach's instrumental music, especially from the 1720s, has been lost; that Bach may have repurposed vocal music into instrumental music; and that Georg Philipp Telemann is known to have done so in a way similar to the "Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 7-12" on this release, replacing the vocal lines of cantata movements with solo instruments in Brandenburg-style instrumentation. None of it adds up to convincing reconstructed Brandenburgs, and arranger Bruce Haynes writes that these pieces are "more in the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the famous recordings by the Swingle Singers or of Wendy Carlos ... not meant as serious reconstructions, merely as speculative trials ...." The Bande Montréal Baroque under Eric Milnes plays well enough that you're ready to listen to the genuine article from them. But the point of the exercise is unclear. The album lacks the tension between Bach's musical seriousness and the whimsical quality of the adaptation that makes the Swingle Singers' Bach recordings work so well. But it doesn't pass the sounds-like-Bach test, either. A curiosity more than anything else, useful perhaps to presenters of summer festivals hoping to program experimental acts.
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Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Bruce Haynes, Composer - Carlos Prieto, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Milnes, Conductor, MainArtist - Montreal Baroque, Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johanne Goyette, Producer
℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
Album review
This album does not, needless to say, offer a new set of undiscovered Bach Brandenburg Concertos. What's less clear is that it also isn't the "reconstruction" promised in the album graphics. There are reasons to believe that a good deal of Bach's instrumental music, especially from the 1720s, has been lost; that Bach may have repurposed vocal music into instrumental music; and that Georg Philipp Telemann is known to have done so in a way similar to the "Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 7-12" on this release, replacing the vocal lines of cantata movements with solo instruments in Brandenburg-style instrumentation. None of it adds up to convincing reconstructed Brandenburgs, and arranger Bruce Haynes writes that these pieces are "more in the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the famous recordings by the Swingle Singers or of Wendy Carlos ... not meant as serious reconstructions, merely as speculative trials ...." The Bande Montréal Baroque under Eric Milnes plays well enough that you're ready to listen to the genuine article from them. But the point of the exercise is unclear. The album lacks the tension between Bach's musical seriousness and the whimsical quality of the adaptation that makes the Swingle Singers' Bach recordings work so well. But it doesn't pass the sounds-like-Bach test, either. A curiosity more than anything else, useful perhaps to presenters of summer festivals hoping to program experimental acts.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:39
- Main artists: Montreal Baroque Eric Milnes
- Composer: Bruce Haynes
- Label: ATMA Classique
- Genre: Classical
© 2012 ATMA Classique ℗ 2012 ATMA Classique
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