Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

Este pack de 3 discos es una delicia para los sentidos, una grabación sublime.

Karl Richter and J S Bach, rarely in music I a conductors name almost synonymous with that of a composer yet for many years it was difficult to think of J S Bach without also thinking of Richter. Richter transformed how Bach's music was performed, some might call him a stepping stone between the romantic style of interpreting and performing Bach and the HIP movement but I do not agree with this. Richter stood outside both the romantic tradition and the HIP movement and to try and imagine him as some sort of missing link in the evolution of performing of Bach falls down since if he was removed from the romantic tradition he was if anything even more removed from the HIP movement. In these days when HIP is the norm for Bach and even modern ensembles generally perform in the HIP style these recordings feel very different, at once both old and new. Old in that they hail from an era before what is now normal was so, new in that there is a remarkable vitality and freshness which hasn't dated in decades since they were recorded and which challenges the modern orthodoxy (one of the ironies of the HIP movement is that what started as a challenge to prevailing orthodoxy is now little more than conservative dogma). Pacing is brisk and there is a sense of dynamism throughout. Despite being a scholar of Bach and gifted with remarkable insights into the music of the Bach family Richter never approached performance as an intellectual exercise but rather as emotion and conveying an idea in music, celebrating the music. The result is a set of recordings which are enthralling and utterly compelling, joyous and uplifting. The Munich Bach Orchestra perform well and deliver Richter's vision. Recording quality belies the age of the recordings, DG did a good job with their re-mastering and the technical quality is perfectly adequate and does not detract from the music in any way (I've heard worse from much newer recordings. Some of this set is on the golden record sent to the far reaches of space with the Voyager spacecraft, it heartens me that one day if humanity ends some distant civilization may at least know the greatness of JS Bach and the brilliance of Richter and his orchestra. Overall, wonderful in every way, be reminded of just what Richter gave us and of his brilliance with this bargain priced set.

【これは ASIN: B000060O58 へのレビューです】 <---引用ここから---> （ライプチヒ）聖トーマス教会のカントルであったギュンター・ラミンが1956年に死去した後、リヒターは聖トーマス教会からのカントル就任要請を断り、完全に西ドイツに活動の本拠を移した。ミュンヘン国立音楽大学のオルガン科教授に就任し、ミュンヘン・バッハ管弦楽団および同合唱団を率いてアメリカへの演奏旅行を行った。（ウィキペディアより） <---引用ここまで---> カール・リヒター（Karl Richter, 1926年10月15日 - 1981年2月15日）には、東ドイツと西ドイツの国境はなかった。それを反映するかのように、彼の《ブランデンブルク協奏曲》《管弦楽序曲》は若々しく、自由で、新しい解釈による演奏・・・だ。 彼は、バッハ演奏のパイオニアとして、より個性的で、より独創的なバッハを演奏をしたと思う（←このアルバムが、ロングセラーである理由はそこにある。）。カール・リヒターを正統派と決めつけちゃいけない。 とにかく、カール・リヒターによるこの《バッハ：管弦楽作品集》は、楽器の歌わせ方が上手い・・・のが快い。演奏者の中では、オーレル・ニコレ（フルート）が、断然良い。

Avant le règne de la très discutable mais néanmoins intéressante authenticité en matière de lecture musicale, le chef d'orchestre Karl Richter (1926-1981) était une référence. A la tête de «l'orchestre Bach» de Munich, ses interprétations des compositions du cantor de Leipzig faisaient autorité. Egalement claveciniste représentant la grande époque de la firme Neupert et organiste, Richter était un «spécialiste», à mi-chemin entre les «romantiques» et la vision parfois excessive d'un Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Admirablement remasterisés par les studios Emil Berliner, ces «Brandebourgeois» captés en 1968 enchanteront les fans de l'interprète et permettront aux plus jeunes de découvrir un discours musical dynamique d'une incroyable clarté, si nécessaire à la musique hautement contrapuntique de Bach. Ce coffret de trois CD comprend par ailleurs les quatre suites pour orchestre et le triple concerto BWV 1044.

The Brandenburgs are played with great elan by this excellent chamber orchestra, undoubtedly stocked w/ many BRSO players from its Jochum and Kubelik eras. Richter also plays the great keyboard cadenza in #5. The flute playing in #4, trumpet in #2, viola and cello in #6: all superb. This ranks with my favorite set , that of Karl Ristenpart on a four cd set (worth it for the three-violin concerto.) I do prefer the fillers on the 2 cd Richter Brandenburgs, the concerto for oboe d'amore and strings and especially the concerto for violin and oboe with is seraphic second movement. The suites are almost as good. #4 is the most successful, ripped by spirited horns and trumpets. #s 1 and 2 ( the flute Suite) are close, and a #3 played like #4 would have lifted this box immeasurably-it is a bit too tame for me, especially in the first movement for which I was spoiled by a solo violin in the concertante section rather than unison violins, once by a Szell/Cleveland disc and once, as I recall, by Munchinger. This box is a great buy and it is still best to live with "The Birthmark". And the second Brandenburg #5, aka the triple concerto for flute, violin, and keyboard ( owned by Ristenpart I think), makes some amends