Advantages: Beautiful relaxing music. Rich instrumentation. Played with passion. Disadvantages: Not all instruments are from the period.
...If I was ever asked to select my "desert island discs", top of my list would be Bach's BrandenburgConcertos. (I wonder if there's a category in the ciao café?. . . ) The six Brandenburgconcertos, each with their distinct quality and sound requiring a different combination of instruments, are not only a delight to listen to but exemplify the intellectual musical genius of their composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. All six are composed in major keys creating and maintaining a cheerful, vivacious collection. The modulations of key demanded by the baroque conventions are skilfully completed and Bach's predilection for numbers and ornate touches are evident. I could say more but this isn't a musical analysis . . .
I am not alone in my high estimation, The Brandenburgconcertos are now probably the best loved and most frequently performed works...
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Advantages: Everything you could ever want from a classical CD Disadvantages: none
.... The Nutcracker - Suite
Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
17. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
18. Cavalleria rusticana
Composed by Pietro Mascagni
19. Gloria in D
Composed by Antonio Vivaldi
20. Coronation Anthems
Composed by George Frideric Handel
21. Cantata No. 147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
22. Requiem in D minor
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
23. Ave Maria
Composed by Charles Gounod
24. Miserere mei
Composed by Gregorio Allegri
25. Requiem
Composed by Gabriel Fauré
26. Lakmé
Composed by Léo Delibes
27. Les contes d'Hoffmann
Composed by Jacques Offenbach
28. Pavane
Composed by Gabriel Fauré
29. Gianni Schicchi
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
30. Madama Butterfly
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
31. Nabucco
Composed...
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Advantages: Wonderful transcriptions of JS Bach's majestic music; sensitive, tender, vivacious, effortless and fluid playing. Disadvantages: Nil.
...Her latest CD from EMI Classics, Bach/Works for Trumpet, already tops zerbine28's list for Classical CD of the Year. (I know, I know, it's only April as I post this, but that's how strongly I feel about this recording.)
Readers, if you please, do welcome young British trumpet player Alison Balsom, who now joins the ranks of Mssrs Miles Davis and Herb Alpert in my teeny-tiny list of favourite trumpeters. No, I never heard of her, either, before yesterday, when I first sampled her CD at the local Borders book and music shop.
Released just this past January, the CD is an absolute stunner. The title is a little misleading, because Johann Sebastian Bach never wrote pieces specifically for the instrument (discounting the BrandenburgConcerto No. 2, of course). Besides which, the trumpet in Bachs time...
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