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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Johann Sebastian Bach - Keyboard Concertos Nos. 3, 5, 6 & 7 (Murray Perahia)


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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • (01-03) Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D major, BMV 1054
  • (04-06) Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
  • (07-09) Keyboard Concerto No. 6 in F major, BWV 1057
  • (10-12) Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor, BWV 1058

Murray Perahia, piano & conductor
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Date: 2001
Label: Sony Classical

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Review

ARTISTIC QUALITY: 10 / SOUND QUALITY: 10

Like its predecessor, Murray Perahia’s second volume of Bach Keyboard Concertos sets new standards for performances of these works on the modern concert grand. Indeed, even harpsichordists can learn loads from the pianist’s subtle variations of articulation in the D major concerto’s Finale and the G minor’s slow movement, or from his breathtakingly aligned trills and runs in the F major (an effective keyboard transcription of the Fourth Brandenburg Concerto). Note, too, the F minor concerto’s wonderful dynamism and fullness of texture. In its gorgeously spun-out slow movement, listen to how sensitively the theorbo intertwines with the murmuring plucked-string accompaniments. What we wouldn’t give for a Fifth Brandenburg from these musicians! Sony’s warm, resplendent engineering further guarantees a state of Bachian bliss for lucky listeners who purchase this disc. Who says that golden age pianism is a thing of the past?

-- Jed Distler, ClassicsToday

More reviews:
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/bach-keyboard-concertos-vol-2
http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Keyboard-Concertos-Johann-Sebastian/dp/B00006310M

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Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. Bach enriched established German styles through his mastery of counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and his adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from Italy and France. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach

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Murray Perahia (born April 19, 1947 in New York) is an American concert pianist and conductor. Perahia studied with Mieczysław Horszowski at Mannes College, and also attended Marlboro Music School, where he studied with musicians Rudolf Serkin, Alexander Schneider, and Pablo Casals, among others.. Besides his solo career, he is active in chamber music and appeared regularly with the Guarneri and Budapest String Quartets. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with which he records and performs. He is loved for his warm, gentle, smooth and lyrical qualities of playing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Perahia

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  2. Thanks again for this share too, as Murray Perahia earned much compliments for his Mozart work, but these Bach Conertos are of the same superior quality - in my ears!
    Woody

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