Do you need 172 CDs of Bach's music? To name but a few that stand out: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Arleen Augér, Helen Watts, Edith Wiens, Peter Schreier, Philipp Huttenlocher, Matthias Goerne, Juliane Banse, Thomas Quasthoff, Christoph Prégardien and many more. Please Subscribe to our New channel @PAINTED. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for J.S. Listen to your favorite songs from Bach: Complete Works for Harpsichord by Martin Galling Now. It's worth noting that, in some cases, re-takes were made months after initial recordings of some movements of the cantatas, and the sound can vary from one part of a cantata to another. Or you could buy a complete set of Bach's music, offering you the ability to sample all of this great composer's works, then, if you find affinities with specific works and want to seek out other versions, do so. But do you really need all this music? Title: J.S. Final Years. This app includes the complete list of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, according to the BWV catalogue, with free music, videos and scores for almost every composition. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2020. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2018. There are treasures within for the most fanatic aficionados. To think that one can have all of Johnny Bach's music, for such a price, all in one box !!! The price is so wonderful. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. I have some amazing Bach recordings, but there are none that top these! Organ recordings often try to vary their sound by using different organs, and the sound is different from one to another, as is the style. # of CDs [Details in Notes]): MM 4001-2 to MM 4171-2. Bach and added this to my collection. None of these scratchy, frantic musically correct period instruments performances, favoured by so called experts!! 172 CDs - recorded under the direction of Professor Helmuth Rilling from 1975 to 2000! Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2018. I'd note especially Trevor Pinnock's superlative recording of the Partitas; Peter Watchorn's great Toccatas disc; and the Well-Tempered Clavier recorded by Robert Levin in a unique manner, with different works played on harpsichord, clavichord, organ and fortepiano. In reality such high-quality documentation is, alas, rare. Presumably anyone who buys this complete set already has favorite recordings of key selections, which won't be eclipsed. 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. If you're familiar with Rilling's cantata recordings, and appreciate them, then this set is worth getting if only for those discs - which do make up more than a third of the set. But opening it is exhilarating and overwhelming. Bach are available at an affordable price in these strong recordings, with very helpful documentation such as texts. Boris Pergamenschikow's cello suites are ponderous; Dmitry Sitkovetsky's solo violin recordings are a bit better, but not up to the competition. Works Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV694 'Wo soll ich fliehen hin' Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV736 'Valet will ich dir geben' Bach, J S: Fantasia & Fugue in A minor, BWV944 Prepared with the most exacting methods of source criticism, it has set new standards for modern scholarly-critical editions in the latter half of the 20th century. Yes, just like the ones you used to find when purchasing software. The large format radically changes the way organists will approach these works. Helmuth Rilling is an excellent conductor and interpreter of Bach's sacred music. Naturally, at nearly one-third of the box, the sacred cantatas are form the biggest chunk here. Complete works organized into groups for download. By 1740, Bach was struggling with his eyesight, but he continued to work despite his vision problems. Allegro" and more. However, for a set at this price you would expect that the cds would be in plain white sticky envelopes. Volumes I and II of J.S. Please try again. Some criticisms are in order, though. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Having purchased the Brilliant complete set a couple of years ago, I really only wanted the sacred cantatas by Rilling and his forces. This is something you never hear in live performance; while one instrument may be on one side, you still hear it on the other side. 3. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! but for me it is pure joy. Obviously, I'd say if you are into Historic Instrument Performances, avoid it. Discover the boxsets of Brilliant Classics. If you have a lot of Bach and want more, then the answer is obvious. The discs are therefore easy to find and choose from the box. as they've done with the Well-Tempered Klavier. Cellist Hyunji Evonne Yi attended the University of Southern California Long Beach and the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music. 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. At first, Hänssler set out to fill out their Bach recordings, which were built around Helmuth Rilling's set of the sacred cantatas. A wonderful collection I bought some time ago, Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2017. Unable to add item to List. 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.) Bach on Brilliant Classics is back! New Bach Edition is an excellent choice. Another fine recording, again by Robert Hill, shows off the rarely recorded lute-harpsichord. Add it to your Christmas list, perhaps, or buy yourself a present. It is comprehensive, generally uses modern instruments and is well recorded. The New Bach Edition is an Urtext edition offering the world of scholarship a reliable musical text which is equally useful in performance. He'll have one instrument or group of instruments sequestered to one track, and others on the other track, giving a sound similar to that of early Beatles' stereo mixes, where vocals were on one track and instruments on the other. Perhaps you're a casual fan of Bach's music and you want more. Complete Works Audition Awards Ceremony Gold Medal Winners: John Perry Piano Masterclass It is a historical-critical edition (German: historisch-kritische Ausgabe) of Bach's complete works by the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute (Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut) in Göttingen and the Bach Archive (Bach-Archiv) in Leipzig, When Bach died most of his work was unpublished. 54/1: II. (review). Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2018. You could buy individual CDs, filling your collection slowly, looking for the best versions of each work. Even fans of Bach will find some works that don't interest them much - perhaps the eight discs of chorale settings, which have not been recorded often, yet contain some gems - but choosing either to traverse the set in order, or at random, yields many excellent recordings. But this doesn't detract from the overall tone. The Cantatas are stellar! Hänssler has clearly not scrimped on the documentation, and one should actually expect this with any big box set. al. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Recorded from 1969 to 1985, over a longer period of time than most other sets, there is a lot of change throughout the series. Too many pages per volume, is not easy to manipulate then (but have a good bind, and complete Bach`s piano works in performance edition is too much expensive) The best: the most complete edition. Finally, there is a CD-ROM with complete texts of the vocal music, extensive notes and detailed track and artist information. I have a strong feeling that this fulfilling investment will go down as one of the best purchases of my life.. The sound is good. The CDs have colour coding for the different types of works (cantatas, sacred music, organ, keyboard, instrumental), and each bears a large volume number and a title. Bach Complete Organ Works has many other original features: 1. Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Manze, Stephen Cleobury, La Stravaganza Köln, Pieter - Jan Belder, Emmy Verhey, Jaap Ter Linden, The Choir of King's College Cambridge, The Brandenberg Consort, the Sixteen - Bach Edition: Complete Works (155 CD Box Set) - Amazon.com Music 54/1: I. Allegro", "Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Wq. Buy this set and you will be knee-deep in Bach – literally. Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2020, I know this will take me some time to go through at 172 CDs. I've long been a fan of the latter approach, especially since Brilliant Classics has shaken up the classical music business with their very low priced box sets of complete (or collected) works of various composers. -- MusicWeb International, Kirk McElhearn, November 2010. Proposes a complete organ transcription of BWV 1039 Trio Sonata in G Major. If you even like Bach you simply have to get this set. The Complete Works of Johann Sebastian Bach - Bachakademie 10th Anniversary Label: H anssler (Note: alternative label spellings are: Hänssler or Haenssler) Recorded 1978-1980 this is the second of Marie Claire Alain's three complete Bach Organ works recordings. Snag is that nowadays it is better to see him as the father of seventeen children who had a sense of humour as evidenced by some of his secular cantatas. Comparing this set to the Brilliant Classics box, I would certainly give higher grades to Hänssler. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. This is where this box is simply a bargain. The carton containing the CDs is so huge you'll have trouble lifting it. It is recorded on the following (non-Baroque) organs: Schwenkedel de la Collegiale de Saint-Donat, Drôme, Marcussen de l’église Saint-Nicolas de Kolding, Denmark, Metzler de la Basilique de Mariasten, Switzerland, Busch-Marcussen de la Chapelle du Château d’Augustenborg, Denmark. One of the only elements I find missing is versions of The Art of Fugue for organ and for chamber orchestra. In short, I don't see how any Bach followers can afford not to have Helmut Rilling's outstanding set. 172 CDs - recorded under the direction of Professor Helmuth Rilling from 1975 to 2000! It depends on how Bach-obsessed you are. Find release reviews and credits for J.S. And with modern instruments. I have listened to every CD at least 5 times, and many many CDs probably 10 or 15 times. I really do love J.S. and now I have the complete, Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2011. in one of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach). The price is so wonderful, Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2014. Of these around a thousand are original compositions by Bach, that is: more than a mere copy or transcription of an earlier work by himself or another composer. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Listen here to Bach Complete Works or Mozart Complete Edition or other brilliant classical music. Listeners know Rilling mostly for his superb renditions of the choral repertory, but will find that the instrumental recordings on offer here are are very good and in some cases equal to the choral works. Philip Bailey overdoses on Bach's Complete Works, Brilliant Classics 93102 Back in the days of 78s it would have been inconceivable to contemplate an issue of the complete organ works of J. S. Bach, with one prelude and fugue occupying one side of a 12” shellac disc. However, the tide is turning; finally we can hear Bach played with the full benefit of modern day technology (both in the playing and recording) in all its glory. To record all of Bach is obviously an epic undertaking and Haenssler, Rilling et. For myself, I have been waiting an awefully long time to get this set at a reasonable price. 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! Rilling's recordings are more dense and lush than others, and his tempi are often slower than HIP recordings - no "original instruments" for Rilling. And if you don't have a lot of Bach, and want to discover all of his works in recordings that range from very good to excellent you can't go wrong. I have all Glenn Gould's recordings, Helmut Walcha's, and Karl Richter's 75 Cantatas and several other hundred CDs and recordings of Bach. Includes all BWV organ works, even those identified as spurious (with the exception of BWV 771, a partita by Nicolaus Vetter). The playing is perhaps slightly lighter.. the orchestral accompaniments to the cantatas are magnificent... staccato is sprightly played, trumpets soar with clarity and purity, and the singing is unquestionably World Class. Also, every time you need to unstick and then stick again the envelope. Rilling notably has an excellent collection of singers in the sacred works. Bach: Complete Works for Organ [Digital Recording] - Marie-Claire Alain on AllMusic - 1994 - The grande dame of French organists, Marie-Claire… I would gladly have paid $250 for these alone. While this is a minor detail, it can be obvious if you compare different recordings of a given cantata. Well, it arrived today, and I can't stop listening! There's a very attractive recording of the Musical Offering, on a variety of instruments: fortepiano, harpsichord, viola da gamba, flute and violin. 4. A complete set of Bach which owes nothing to historically informed performance practice, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2018. It's a big box, sleek and well-designed, and, as you can see in the illustration to this review, opens to show the CDs in three sections. The snag is that it is so dreadfully earnest. Includes a selection of harpsichord works, laid out on three staves when relevant (preludes and fugues, concertos, variations, ricercari from the Musical Offering, etc.). They enlisted Rilling to oversee the set, and came up with a wonderful collection of 172 CDs in 140 volumes (a number of the volumes contain 2 or 3 discs). OK I have listed to about 20 cds across the set. As others have said, your mileage will vary whether you like particular interpretations or not, but overall this is an outstanding set with many wonderful recordings. Really the company producing them could not get printed card envelopes!!! I don't think that I can add more of substance on this 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. These are provided in 14 PDF files that you can view on any computer. The set is currently available for around $300 in the US, less than £200 in the UK, and around 225 elsewhere in the EU. This app includes the complete list of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, according to the BWV catalogue, with free music, videos and scores for almost every composition. This set contains the works of Johann Sebastian Bach which are originally written by Bach, fully completed by him, and of undisputed authenticy. So, back to my initial question: do you need this set? In some ways I would have preferred a single organist, even at different locations, but this isn't a deal-breaker. Globally recognized as the ONLY authoritative editionof Bach's works NOW AVAILABLE at a NEWcompetitive price - a celebration of a lifetime's work- and sought-after throughout the World hänsslerCLASSIC's Complete Works of Bach, produced incooperation with the International Bach Academy.172 CDs - recorded under the direction of ProfessorHelmuth Rilling from 1975 to 2000!Helmuth Rilling was awarded the Grand Prix duDisque for his landmark recordings of cantatas andthey now enjoy benchmark status. To see what I mean sample Edward Adwell’s interpretation of the French Suites. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2020. CLASSIC's Complete Works of Bach, produced in cooperation with the International Bach Academy. While I have a preference for John Eliot Gardiner's cantata recordings, because of his forces and his more HIP choices, there is no doubt that Rilling's recordings are excellent. If the complete collection does not outclass those, it always provides worthy performances. I'd give it six stars if I could. This set may not be the "greatest" in some people's ears, but for me it is pure joy. I notably purchased many of the keyboard recordings, and some of them have become my favourites. For music affianados, this is like a candy store that never closes. It is incredible that the complete works of J.S. So far I've barely scratched the surface, even though the sacred vocal works are the heart of the collection. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. There are nearly 178 hours of music in this box, which is a daunting prospect for anyone. This is a mixed bag, with some excellent recordings, but quite a few mediocre discs. Please try again. Release Date: 2004-08-16. Hille Perl and Michael Beringer play the sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord. After releasing them individually, they then sold a box set, at what was then considered a normal price, but since the advent of Brilliant Classics pricing, seemed expensive. And the Oregon Bach Festival Chamber Orchestra, led by Helmuth Rilling, plays the Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites; certainly not my favourite versions, but fine ones nevertheless. The recordings are digital and better quality, because they are more recent. This tends to make some of the movements sound as though there's no blend among the singers and musicians. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. The links below are to .zip archives. Format: CD. # of cases [Details in Notes]): MM4172-2 to MM4214-2, Other (Cat. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. I would say they are exactly in the style of Karl Richter and the Bach Munich Orchestra. 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