Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer - Bach: Orchestral Suites, Handel: Concerto Grosso, Rameau (1999)
Artist: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
Title: Bach: Orchestral Suites, Handel: Concerto Grosso, Rameau
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Testament
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 2:18'26
Total Size: 566 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Bach: Orchestral Suites, Handel: Concerto Grosso, Rameau
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Testament
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 2:18'26
Total Size: 566 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
CD1:
Johann Sebastian Bach - Suite No.1 in C BWV 1066
01. I. Ouverture
02. II. Courante
03. III. Gavottes 1 & 2
04. IV. Forlane
05. V. Menuets 1 & 2
06. VI. Bourrees 1 & 2
07. VII. Passepieds 1 & 2
Johann Sebastian Bach - Suite No.2 in B minor BWV 1067
08. I. Ouverture
09. II. Rondeau
10. III. Sarabande
11. IV. Bourrees 1 & 2
12. V. Polonaise
13. VI. Menuet
14. VII. Badinerie
Johann Sebastian Bach - Suite No.3 in D BWV 1068
15. I. Ouverture
16. II. Air
17. III. Gavottes 1 & 2
18. IV. Bourree
19. V. Gigue
CD2:
Johann Sebastian Bach - Suite No.4 in D BWV 1069
01. I. Ouverture
02. II. Bourrees 1 & 2
03. III. Gavotte
04. IV. Menuet
05. V. Rejouissance
Georg Frideric Handel - Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op.6 No.4
06. I. Larghetto affetuoso
07. II. Allegro
08. III. Largo e piano
09. IV. Allegro
Jean-Philippe Rameau - Gavotte with 6 variations (orch. Klemperer)*
10. Gavotte
11. Variation I
12. Variation II
13. Variation III
14. Variation IV
15. Variation V
16. Variation VI
Christoph Willibald Gluck - Iphigenie en Aulide
17. Overture
Luigi Cherubini - Anacreon
18. Klemperer's announcement
19. Overture
2 CD Set Otto Klemperer BACH Orchestral Suites Nos.1-4, BWV1066-1069 HANDEL Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.4 RAMEAU/KLEMPERER Gavotte with 6 Variations GLUCK Overture: Iphignie en Aulide CHERUBINI Overture Anacreon Philharmonia Orchestra Otto Klemperer Recorded in MONO/STEREO
The suites date from the waning days of monophonic sound. It's big-band Bach, far removed from today's speculative recreations of period style, but also distant from the bloated Bach of the past. Klemperer, fairly lean and objective, still digs deeply into the music. The uncredited flutist in Suite No. 2 is touching. Overture movements here are appropriately grand and, while tempos are moderate (no break-dancing to these dance movements), Klemperer's rhythmic mastery keeps the music flowing. The Philharmonia, at its peak, plays superbly. Handel's Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 4, is beefily affecting and the rest, in stereo, is very attractive, especially the robust Anacreon Overture by Cherubini, a white-hot performance whose horn whoops in the coda will blow you away. --Dan Davis
The suites date from the waning days of monophonic sound. It's big-band Bach, far removed from today's speculative recreations of period style, but also distant from the bloated Bach of the past. Klemperer, fairly lean and objective, still digs deeply into the music. The uncredited flutist in Suite No. 2 is touching. Overture movements here are appropriately grand and, while tempos are moderate (no break-dancing to these dance movements), Klemperer's rhythmic mastery keeps the music flowing. The Philharmonia, at its peak, plays superbly. Handel's Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 4, is beefily affecting and the rest, in stereo, is very attractive, especially the robust Anacreon Overture by Cherubini, a white-hot performance whose horn whoops in the coda will blow you away. --Dan Davis
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