Essential Bach | Janos Starker, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Essential Bach | Janos Starker, Johann Sebastian Bach, ... | Excellent collection of mostly recognizeable music

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Essential Bach

	Essential Bach Janos Starker, Johann Sebastian Bach, ... Decca, 2000 average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It is not possible to fit 36 Bach masterpieces on two CDs, so what Essential Bach does is present individual movements from across a range of the composer's work. The anthology is clearly aimed at the newcomer, and the absence of booklet notes to put the music in context is disappointing. We are only given titles, performers, and what films the extracts have been featured in, from Rollerball to The English Patient.

On the plus side, most if not all of the music is instantly recognizable, by melody if not by name. Everything from the Brandenburg Concertos to "Air on a G String" to the B Minor Mass and St. Matthew Passion is represented. Performances range from 1960 to 1993, encompassing both early instrument and modern orchestra interpretations by a wide variety of forces, including Sir Neville Marriner with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Raymond Leppard leading the English Chamber Orchestra. Given such diversity the result is unavoidably a patchwork, albeit one made from the finest materials, and as such is perhaps best treated as a sampler to aid exploration of the vast legacy of one of the very greatest composers who ever lived. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk

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Exquisite Essential Bach

Value and exquisite sampler of Bach on two CD's at an affordable price. Recorded by the likes primarily of Academy of the St. Martin-in-the-fields, Chicago Sympony, Boston Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra and with virtuoso performers as William Bennett, Heinz Hollinger, Pepe Romero, and Wolfgang Rubsam, one gets treated to wonderful Bach exerpts of all his fantastic breath and depth of chamber, symphony and choral works.

One will have to go to other places to find background on these marvelous compositions as the liner notes only list perfomer and date recorded.

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Excellent collection of mostly recognizeable music

LOVE LOVE LOVE this 2-CD set. I bought I a awhile back and have enjoyed it very much. My toddler likes it too. I think it's a great value for the money and may have to get another copy if this one wears out.

so amazing

I love this kind of playing. this is my favorite classical cd.

Excellent compilation , great quality

This really has the best of Bach on one CD (compared to 150 for his total works).

Essential Bach is OK

This is a good basic primer. A true Bach lover might find a better selection/orchestra.

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Tracks
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor: Toccata in D minor | Orchestral Suite No. 3 In D Major: Air | Prelude in C major | Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 In G Major: Allegro | Goldberg Variations: Aria | Sleepers Awake: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme | Violin Concerto No.1 In A Minor: I Allegro moderato | Jesu, joy of man's desiring | Keyboard Concerto No.4: Allegro: I Allegro | Cello Suite No.3: Bourees I & II: Bourrees I And II | Concerto for Oboe & Violin In C Minor: Adagio | Mass In B minor: Crucifixus | Cello Suite No.1 in G Major: Praeludium | French Suite No.5 in G major: Gigue | Prelude in D Minor | Brandenburg Concerto No.5 In D Major: III Allegro | Matthaus-Passion: St Matthew Passion | Brandenberg Concerto No.2 In F Major: I Allegro | Concerto For 2 Violins In D Minor: II Largo, ma non tanto | Lute Suite In E Major: Prelude | Cantata: Sheep may safely graze | Cello Sonata In G Minor: II Adagio (excerpt) | Italian Concerto In F Major: II Allegro | Weihnachtsoratorium: Pastoral sinfonia | Violin Concerto No.1 In A Minor: II Andante | Partita No.1 In B Flat Major: Gigue | Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Minor: Menuet | Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Minor: Badinerie | Oboe Concerto In F Major: Siciliano | Brandenberg Concerto No.3 In G Major: I Allegro | Violin Partita No.2 In D Minor: Allemande | Violin Partita No.2 In D Minor: Gigue | Keyboard Concerto No.2 In E Major: I Allegro (excerpt) | Cantata: Sanctify us by thy goodness | Keyboard Concerto No.5 In F Minor: II Largo | Concerto In A Minor: I Allegro

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