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| 25 Bach Favorites | 
 enlarge | Creators: Hildegard Rutgers, Erich Wenk, Johann Sebastian Bach, Barry Faldner, Gunter Kehr, Helmuth Rilling, Joerg Faerber, Karel Brazda, Valentin Radu, Chicago Symphony Brass, Mainz Chamber Orchestra, Wuerttembergisches Kammerorchester, Christiane Jaccottet, Christine Sartoretti, Leonore Klinkerfuss, Martin Galling, Nicole Hostettler, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Figuralchor Der Gedaechtniskirche Stuttgart
Label: Vox (Classical)
Category: Music
List Price: $4.98
Buy New: $1.72
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1236
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 8817
UPC: 047163881725
EAN: 0047163881725
ASIN: B0000058I1
Release Date: August 20, 1996
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 Back To Bach: 25 Smash Hits February 24, 2004
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Johann Sebastian Bach, without a doubt in any music scholar's mind, was the greatest composer of the Baroque Period. His flair for instrumental music was rich, melodic and grand. He mastered everything that could possibly be mastered as far as Baroque musical convention- except for opera. Had Bach also taken an interest in writing music for operas, like George Frederic Handel did, he would have gone above and beyond. This collection is affordable and offers you 25 of his musical works that best depicts his style. The compilation album is one in the many series of "25 Favorites". Others include 25 Handel favorites, 25 Vivaldi Favorites, 25 Mozart Favorites, 25 Beethoven favorites, 25 Tchaikovsky favorites, 25 Dance Favorites and 25 Opera Favorites.The album opens with the famous Toccata And Fugue In D Minor, originally a work for the organ. It was later re-made into a work for full orchestra. The conductor Leopold Stokowski popularized the music in Disney's Fantasia 1940. The "evil" sound of the ominous organ, particularily the opening toccata, was featured in the original 1930's "Dracula". It is still regarded as a sort of Halloween anthem. The toccata, strongly accented, is followed by a lyrical fugue which he builds on later to a dramatic crescendo and finale. This was Bach's specialty- counterpoint; many melodies being played at once. Also worth noticing is that Baroque music always ended in a decidely dramatic major chord because it was thought to really be the right way to end a piece of music. Bach could never imagine closing his music in pianissimo or a minor chord because it would seem unfinished. The rest of this album features Bach's Brandenburg concerti excerpts, Organ Prelude, Well-Tempered Clavier keyboard music, works for chorus Magnificat and Mass in B, Violin Concertos 1 and 2 and Harpsichord concertos. The Mainz Chamber Orchestra, which is mostly featured on here, may not be the most talented or perfect Baroque performers, but they do deliver a splendid job. If anything, this cd should get you hooked into Bach.
It contains many of bachs greatest works. November 26, 1998
11 out of 22 found this review helpful
This CD contains many excerpts from Brandenburg Concertos and organ music. It has excerpts from 3 Concertos for Harpsichords. I'd say this is an excellent Cd! You should buy it if you dont already own it!
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