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Bach: Cantatas Volumes 1-5 (75 Cantatas for Sundays and Feast Days of the Church Year) Reviews
Bach: Cantatas Volumes 1-5 (75 Cantatas for Sundays and Feast Days of the Church Year) Reviews
| 27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:  Bach in the Bach Tradition, By K. Bowersock (Lubbock, TX) - See all my reviews This review is from: Bach: Cantatas Volumes 1-5 (75 Cantatas for Sundays and Feast Days of the Church Year) (Audio CD) I believe I owe it to the period performance movement for making me feel like I am committing a sin when I don't listen to Gardiner's or Hogwood's Bach (or Handel, or any Baroque composer for that matter). If, say, I put in Shaw's recording of the B minor mass, or most certainly Klemperer's recording of the St. Mathew passion, I feel that I should somehow be ashamed for what I am doing. There may be some type of Freudian truth buried deep within my being ashamed; however, there has always been an exception to my modern instrument guilts. This is, of course, the Bach recordings of Karl Richter; and more specifically, Richter's immortal survey of the sacred cantatas (well, 75 of them anyway). I received this set as a gift when I graduated from college, and I have been constantly listening since. The music of Bach has meant more to me than any other composer, and the Richter recordings show Bach's true genius at full speed ahead. Don't get me wrong, I love Gardiner's... Read more 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:  A Time Capsule of Sheer Delight, By This review is from: Bach: Cantatas Volumes 1-5 (75 Cantatas for Sundays and Feast Days of the Church Year) (Audio CD) I treasured these recordings as a music student in high school and college in the '70's. Although newer, 'historically correct' recordings were emerging, Richter's musicality, if one will, still attracted me to these Archive recordings. This set is a bargin considering all the music there is to digest. DG's remastering is excellent-the warm analog sound does not suffer what can sometimes be a strident digitized reincarnation. DG's engineers and hardware were always on the cutting edge and these recordings speak to that fact. Say what one will about the oddities of interpertation, there is music in evey bar. Before I began listening, I though that I should prepare myself to forgive Richer for his position in history and look the other way when so called historically inaccurate idioms presented themselves. Yes, they are there, but, the younger listener will be quite astonished to find amazing vitality and sweep of phrase and articulation. Richter's tempi are often suprisingly brisk. The... Read more 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful: An achievement for the ages., By blue-59 (Blount Springs, Alabama, United States) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Bach: Cantatas Volumes 1-5 (75 Cantatas for Sundays and Feast Days of the Church Year) (Audio CD) These performances may not get high grades from the professors, but Richter makes glorious music here. I owned most of these recordings on disc decades ago, and upon hearing them again was surprised at how deeply I was struck not only by the magnificent beauty of the interpretations, but also by the heartfelt commitment of the superb soloists. I have a zillion recordings of these cantatas, so go ahead and scoff, but Richter gets me closer to this music than anyone else. And what music it is! I hope I live long enough to listen to these 26 discs a thousand times. |
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