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Brandenburg Concertos - Please suggest a good CD version

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#41 ·
Look for the version by the Freiburger Barockoschester. It is actually posted on YouTube (this is not the reason for me to choose it of course). I have a high respect for their style: they indeed use authentic instruments and have a very exciting version of the Baroque style, with a certain strength that I have not found anywhere else.

You may also look at the recordings by La Petite Bande. I consider their style very "purist".
 
#45 ·
Honestly, I couldn't pick a favorite Brandenburg set. The performances are all over the map... some fast, some slow- some clipped, some with dance rhythms- etc. I get something different out of all of them. Bach is like a jewel with a bunch of different facets. There isn't just one proper angle to look at it.
 
#46 ·
bigshot said:
Honestly, I couldn't pick a favorite Brandenburg set. The performances are all over the map... some fast, some slow- some clipped, some with dance rhythms- etc. I get something different out of all of them. Bach is like a jewel with a bunch of different facets. There isn't just one proper angle to look at it.
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Very true. The more versions one has heard, the more obvious your claim seems.
Believe me or not, but having heard about 95% of all the recordings ever made of these works, I know what you are talking about.
 
#48 ·
I can't choose a favorite either, nevertheless, it was weird not to see any mention here to Hogwood's rendition. With that weird horns that some people hate but that I find delightful.
 
#51 ·
KenOC said:
A very good set is by the Café Zimmerman, a small group named for the café where some of Bach's concertos were performed. This is a six-disc set with the Brandenburgs, the orchestral suites, and the clavier and other concertos. I listen to this set a lot.

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To much caféine!:cool:
 
#53 ·
Heliogabo said:
I can't choose a favorite either, nevertheless, it was weird not to see any mention here to Hogwood's rendition. With that weird horns that some people hate but that I find delightful.
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Yea they are noticeable as well in Freiburger Barockoschester's rendition, they are natural horns with no valves so volume control is limited. I like them too :)
 
#54 ·
If you can find it on this side of the Pacific, RCA Red Seal once released a version by the Paillard Chamber Orchestra with Maurice Andre and Jean Pierre Rampal in the mix. It was a larger, modern version but energetic and refined. It is not in the current catalog state-side. I keep hoping Erato will pick up the rights as they did to other Paillard recordings. My favorite period instrument piece is with Christopher Hogwood and the AOAM. It can be wonderfully wild in parts although well played. It can sound bare as the number of instruments are drastically reduced. Not a desert island recording but great fun. It has a chamber ensemble quality and every player is required to stand out. No hiding places! Early digital. Can one have too many versions?
 
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Tom Formanek said:
If you can find it on this side of the Pacific, RCA Red Seal once released a version by the Paillard Chamber Orchestra with Maurice Andre and Jean Pierre Rampal in the mix. It was a larger, modern version but energetic and refined. It is not in the current catalog state-side. I keep hoping Erato will pick up the rights as they did to other Paillard recordings. My favorite period instrument piece is with Christopher Hogwood and the AOAM. It can be wonderfully wild in parts although well played. It can sound bare as the number of instruments are drastically reduced. Not a desert island recording but great fun. It has a chamber ensemble quality and every player is required to stand out. No hiding places! Early digital. Can one have too many versions?
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This with André, Pierlot, Rampal, Jarry et.c.:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Erato/2564613865

Later Paillard recorded another version with (among others) Thierry Caens on trumpet, but still Gerard Jarry on violin. "Thanks" to generally weaker soloists this version is somewhat less exiting, though still listenable.

https://www.amazon.fr/Bach-Brandenb.../ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1467495825&sr=1-4&keywords=brandenburg+paillard
 
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Tom Formanek said:
If you can find it on this side of the Pacific, RCA Red Seal once released a version by the Paillard Chamber Orchestra with Maurice Andre and Jean Pierre Rampal in the mix. It was a larger, modern version but energetic and refined. It is not in the current catalog state-side. I keep hoping Erato will pick up the rights as they did to other Paillard recordings. My favorite period instrument piece is with Christopher Hogwood and the AOAM. It can be wonderfully wild in parts although well played. It can sound bare as the number of instruments are drastically reduced. Not a desert island recording but great fun. It has a chamber ensemble quality and every player is required to stand out. No hiding places! Early digital. Can one have too many versions?
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Nice first post, welcome on Talk Classical .
 
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