Leonhardt: Bach – Six Brandenburg Concertos (2 CD, APE)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Gustav Leonhardt, Sigiswald Kuijken, Lucy van Dael, Anner Bylsma, Wieland Kuijken, Anthony Woodrow, Claude Rippas, Frans Bruggen, Paul Dombrecht, Ab Koster, Bob van Asperen
Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt
Audio CD
SPARS Code: ADD
Number of Discs: 2
Format: APE (tracks)
Label: Sony
Size: 551 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

CD 01
01-04. Concerto no.1 in F Major BWV 1046
05-07. Concerto no.2 in F Major BWV 1047
08-10. Concerto no.3 in G Major BWV 1048

CD 02
01-03. Concerto no.4 in G Major BWV1049
04-06. Concerto no.5 in D Major BWV1050
07-09. Concerto no.6 in B-flat Major BWV1051

An Honourable Recording of the Brandenburg Concertos

Since the early years of the recordings of Gustav Leonhardt about 1962, I was really impressed by the natural and at the same time convincing interpretations of his Bach recordings. With his royal friend Nikolaus Harnoncourt of Vienna they invented a new way of interpretation of ancient music with (copies of) historic instruments and by studying old manuscripts on performance practices. They founded a school of apprentices perfecting the way Baroque music is interpreted in a elegant and passionate style. With help of the finest Belgian musicians, the bothers Kuyken, who were at the time already close friends, they made these monumental recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos of the all time genius Johann Sebastian Bach. I had the opportunity to attend some of their concerts and in my memory those concerts were way better than the recordings. Even so these recordings come close to the quality of the performance I heard a these events. So I can recommend without any hesitation you buying these fine pieces of musical finesse. There are many more fine interpretations of these concertos, but these will be in my view the summit of all.