(April 10, 2015 at 11:52 am)Alex K Wrote: Yes, that's the spirit! None of that piccolo trumpet nonsense! Richter was great, but he was not HIP. I was actually wondering whether there was a good performance like that online.
Oh I miss living in Freiburg.
My first performance of The Brandenburgs was the Richter performance, mostly because I heard that that recording was one of the last things Nick Drake listened to before he killed himself. Later, I would graduate to Trevor Pinnock's performance; the man had not one, but two exemplary recordings of the Brandenburgs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elIXiNx-dXw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV8ubOzGml8
But, given the choice between the two, I'd have to pick the earlier set. Why? Given the choice between two nigh-on-perfect recordings of some of Bach's great masterworks, would you pick the newer one, which costs $28 for a two-disc, 95 minute set, or the one that costs $24 and has recordings of the Orchestral Suites AND Violin concertos to boot?
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