From Authentic to Outrageous

Bach (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Koch Int'l Classics
• ASIN: B000001SKM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,164 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Suite No. 3 (Overture)

2. Mass in B Minor (Et In Spiritum Sanctum)

3. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Allegro)

4. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Affetuoso)

5. Suite No. 3 (Air)

6. Fantasia in C Minor

7. Partita IV: Sarabande

8. Partita IV: Aria

9. Cantata 140: Wachet Auf Chorale (Zion Hort): Chorus - Wachet auf , ruft uns die Stimme

10. Cantata 140: Wachet Auf Chorale (Zion Hort): Chorus - Zion hort die Wachet singen

11. Ricercare: Fuga from the Musical Offering

12. Toccata and Fugue

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful version of the air., May 25, 2003

By 

simon Claessen (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Authentic to Outrageous (Audio CD)

A few weeks ago I bought a collection old 78 rpm disks in very good shape. all classic music in their original books. most of them concerts spanning 5 to 6 disks, but also some lone disks in blank paper sleeve. One of them was Air of the suite #3 of Bach, played by the "Philharmonische orchester, Berlin" and conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler in 1929.

After hearing this version of the Air (a very slow one) all the other versions seem complete pointless and doing no good to the composition. The way Furtwangler gives the melody space to grow and breath is excellent.
I do not own this cd, only the original 78 rpm disk, so I cannot comment on the other titles on the cd, but the presents of the Furtwangler version of the Air is enough to buy the cd.

tip: there is a preview of this title. listen to it!