But do you really need all this music? Rilling notably has an excellent collection of singers in the sacred works. The large format radically changes the way organists will approach these works. But this doesn't detract from the overall tone. Cellist Hyunji Evonne Yi attended the University of Southern California Long Beach and the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music. Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, … A celebration of a lifetime’s work and sought-after throughout the World hänssler CLASSIC’s Complete Works of Bach, produced in cooperation with the International Bach Academy. I had purchased some individual CDs from the set several years ago, (the individual CDs were £16 or around full price) but when this offer came out to purchase the whole set at less than £1 per CD I snatched it! Rachmaninov: The Complete Works [32 CD][Limited Edition], Glenn Gould: A State of Wonder - The Complete Goldberg Variations 1955 & 1981, Bach: 6 Brandenburg Concertos / 4 Orchestral Suites, Ravel: The Complete Edition / uvres Complètes, Rachmaninov: Complete Works For Piano [11 CD]. Proposes a complete organ transcription of BWV 1039 Trio Sonata in G Major. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2018. This is a mixed bag, with some excellent recordings, but quite a few mediocre discs. Finally, there is a CD-ROM with complete texts of the vocal music, extensive notes and detailed track and artist information. Please Subscribe to our New channel @PAINTED. A wonderful collection I bought some time ago, and I am still working through it, one CD per evening. Back in 2000, during the wonderful Bach year, I bought a number of the individual Hänssler discs to fill out my collection. I have been listening to Bach all of my life, and am humbled by the sheer volume of wonderful music of his that I have never had the joy of hearing. I really do love J.S. Bach: The Complete Works for Piano Solo, Vol. And with modern instruments. But opening it is exhilarating and overwhelming. Every note is there but they seem almost too scholarly in his approach. These are two of my favourite groups of Bach's works, and I turn to other recordings when I want to listen to them. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. If you see Bach as a very serious German church cantor then this set will be ideal for you. While I initially felt the cantata recordings to be good, more recent recordings (by Gardiner, Suzuki and others) have put them near the back of the pack. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Get it and forget everything else! I've found lots of great deals on Amazon over the years, but this is easily the most worthwhile purchase I have made in the last ten years. None of these scratchy, frantic musically correct period instruments performances, favoured by so called experts!! al. I don't think that I can add more of substance on this collection. In fact, the first big Brilliant Classics box I got was their set of Bach recordings, released back in 2001. OK I have listed to about 20 cds across the set. While they might not match these others, they are more than competent--I also like that the set includes Bach performed on multiple keyboard instruments (clavichord, harpsichord, modern piano, etc.) There are treasures within for the most fanatic aficionados. The snag is that it is so dreadfully earnest. While this is a minor detail, it can be obvious if you compare different recordings of a given cantata. 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