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Summary: perfect performance with not a really great interpretation..
Comment: Perlman is a violonist whose perormance is regarded as standard when it comes to Bach's works; in this album however, I was a bit disappointed of finding what I would expect in that the whole work sounds rather classic than baroque.
also, the orchestra seems to be a bit axcited of having Perlman as the violinist (!!?) as you simply can't hear the orchestra as it's always in the background. This gets quite annoying when it comes to question and answer parts between the violin and orchestra or when it's the violin who should be rather in background.. but that's a matter of recording I should think..
but in general,you still, no doubt, can enjoy the perfection of Perlman's performance, if you're not fussy about different interpretations of Bach's works..
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Summary: Bach!!!! (Words fail me!)
Comment: This is specifically the rendition that got me obsessed with Bach's music: very beautifully played, subtle yet passionate.
The music seems to say so much, and yet what it says just about escapes me, everytime...
I love all the four concertos, I can't even say which one is the best: they all are!
The music seems to flow over me, around me, yet through me: I am drowned in it, drowning in it...
The music is at times exiting, at times calming, and makes me go through such a variety of emotions that i can't even start to explain, but what is inescapably obvious is that it is always amazingly beautiful!
But all these words fall short, I can just say that if I must choose between all other music in the world and these four concertos: i'll choose these...
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Summary: I've turned my back on Bach
Comment: I used to be a huge fan of Bach, bach in the day, but ever since hearing Stravinsky, I can't get bach into it. It's really bachward in comparison. Try listening to every Stravinsky record, bach to bach, and you'll see.
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Summary: A real treat for the ears,mind, and soul
Comment: fresh, lively, up-front, open and honest - and with no distortions or mannerisms masquerading as 'interpretation'.
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Summary: Bach for a buck!
Comment: This CD must represent the best value for money of any item in the Amazon catalogue: four Bach concerti at less than a pound a piece! Not only that, but what you have here is the English Chamber Orchestra playing Bach AND they're being conducted by Daniel Barenboim. If that isn't enough for you, the soloist is Itzhak Perlman. That's right, for less than pound a piece! (for those of you outside the sterling zone, that's a tad over one dollar/one euro each)Assuming you're still reading this, rather than adding the CD to your shopping basket I could add, in a nonchalant yet triumphal manner, that the jewel in the crown comes at the end when Pinchas Zuckerman joins in for the Concerto in D for Violin and Strings (the “Double Violin”), one of my very favourite pieces of music. So, for less than a pound a piece, you have a great composer's great work, a great orchestra under their greatest conductor and two of the 20th Century's greatest violinists who invariably make a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. So that's great - why aren't you clicking on the shopping basket?
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