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