Bach: Complete Piano Concertos, Vol. 1

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Robert Stankovsky (Conductor), Camerata Cassovia (Performer), Hae-Won Chang (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Camerata Cassovia, Hae-Won Chang
• Conductor: Robert Stankovsky
• Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
• Audio CD (February 15, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Naxos
• ASIN: B0000013R8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,194 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First rate!, March 2, 2000

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R. M Connors (Dedham, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bach: Complete Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

Beautiful music beautifully done. The soloist's phrasing is crystal clear and calm. I have four other recording of these pieces on both harpsicord and piano, and this is my favorite by far.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chang's Bach Piano Concertos are a joy!, December 9, 1999

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"kek5" (Westerville, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bach: Complete Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

What a fun CD! The performances are excellent, the sound is very good and the music is glorious. If you want the Bach keyboard concertos on a modern piano, here you go. Note that while everything is on modern instruments, tempos are quick and the playing is lively, thus providing the best in period performance practices.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An entertaining fun disc, historically inaccurate, June 25, 2005

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Leslie Richford (Selsingen, Lower Saxony) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bach: Complete Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

If you would like to hear Bach's keyboard concertos as Bach actually intended them to be heard, you would do well to look elsewhere. Naxos later produced a series of recordings with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra directed by Helmut Müller-Brühl in which historical performance practice is ideally combined with modern instruments - these are available at the usual incredible Naxos price; if you prefer historical instruments, then I suggest looking at recordings by The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (on Deutsche Grammophon) or by the ensemble Le Concert Francais/Pierre Hantai (on Auvidis-Astrée).

Nevertheless, if you prefer the modern piano to a harpsichord and are not too worried about questions of "authentic" style, you will probably enjoy this 1990 Naxos disc on which Korean pianist Hae-won Chang gives a classy performance quite brilliantly captured by the Slovakian engineers. The accompanying Camerata Cassovia, directed by Robert Stankovsky, seems to have had quite a field day, too, although the engineers have ensured that it is always the soloist in the foreground. A fun disc on which pure entertainment takes priority over any musicological considerations.