Product Details

• Format: Surround Sound
• Language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: n/a
• DVD Release Date: October 14, 2008
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001GQIBP8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,289 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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SUITS NOS. 1 - 3 BWV 1066 1069

The four Orchestral Suites or Ouvertures BWV 1066 1069 are a set of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, probably composed around 1720 in Cöthen. The word ouverture refers to an opening movement in which a section of slow dotted-note rhythm is followed by a fugue; at the time, this name was also used to refer to a whole suite of dance-pieces in the French baroque style.

Ouverture No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066
1. Ouverture
2. Courante
3. Gavotte I/II
4. Forlane
5. Minuet I/II
6. Bourrée I/II
7. Passepied I/II
Instrumentation: Oboe I/II, bassoon, violin I/II, viola, basso continuo

Ouverture No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
1. Ouverture
2. Rondeau
3. Sarabande
4. Bourrée I/II
5. Polonaise (Lentement) - Double
6. Minuet
7. Badinerie
Instrumentation: Solo flute, violin I/II, viola, basso continuo The badinerie has become a show-piece for solo flautists, due to its quick pace and difficulty, and it is also often heard as a mobile phone ringtone. It was sampled by rapper Busdriver for his 2002 song Imaginary Places.

Ouverture No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
1. Ouverture
2. Air
3. Gavotte I/II
4. Bourrée
5. Gigue
Instrumentation: Trumpet I/II/III, timpani, oboe I/II, violin I/II, viola, basso continuo The Air is one of the most famous pieces of classical music. An arrangement of the piece has come to be known as Air on the G String.

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Concerto for harpsichord, flute, and violin in A minor, BWV 1044
1. Allegro
2. Adagio ma non tanto e dolce
3. Alla breve
Scoring: harpsichord solo, violin solo, flute solo, violin I/II, viola, continuo (cello, violone)
Though this a concerto for three instruments, the harpsichord has the most prominent role and greatest quantity of material; there are several cadenzas and virtuosic passages for the instrument; the scoring is identical to that of Brandenburg concerto no.5, BWV 1050, though the character is quite different. The first and third movements are adapted from the prelude and fugue in A minor for solo harpsichord, BWV 894, which have been developed with added tutti sections. The middle movement is from the trio sonata for organ in D minor, BWV 527, which has been expanded to four voices; only the solo instruments play, and the flute and violin share the melody and accompaniment, switching roles on the repeat of each half.

Musicians:
I BAROCCHISTI:
Duilio Galfetti, violin, viola
Giovanni De Rosa, viola
Thomas Muller, natural horns
Raul Diaz, natural horns
Maurice Steger, recorder
Stefano Bet, flute, recorder
Emiliano Rodolfi, oboe Gabriele Cassone, natural trumpet Francesco Cera, harpsichord
Diego Fasolis, harpsichord, conductor

Audio Presentation: 24bit / 96K 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio --Surround Records

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Caveat emptor, September 17, 2009

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Paul Hite (Ashburn, Va USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suites 1, 2, & 3 -Experimental Blu-ray Community Project (Blu-ray)

My Blu-Ray player shows: +R DL(AVCHD) as I play this disc. It does not visually looks like a Blu-Ray disc and holding it side by side with a DVD+R, they look very similiar. I am puzzled by the high praise that most other reviewers seem to have. Could there be two versions of this disc for sale? Hoping for clarification I went to web site advertised by the insert... it is for sale (the web site, not the disc). DTS-MA is limited to 18 Mbps on a DVD while it is 24.5 Mbps on an actual Blu-Ray. AVCHD can provide 18 Mbps. So that is what we seem to have here. This is still a bit more than 10 times the data rate of an audio CD, so this DVD is not total garbage. It actually sounds pretty good. But I am very disappointed by the misrepresentation of the format. Also, there is no menu system provided and that seems rather amateurish. Even a rudimentary menu would have been nice. These two issues result in my low rating.

You need a player that can read finalized DVD+R discs in AVCHD format. And your player must have a DTS-MA codec or it must be able to deliver the bit stream to a receiver that can decode DTS-MA. The AVCHD format may be the stumbling block. I have a Panasonic DMP BD-35. Panasonic and Sony invented AVCHD so those brands are probably going to be ok. I'm surprised that no one complains that the disk is unreadable... maybe almost all players support AVCHD... I'm not sure. But let the buyer beware!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars (Some) Buyers Beware, March 29, 2010

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D. Main "www.smallbusinessbigworld.com" (California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suites 1, 2, & 3 -Experimental Blu-ray Community Project (Blu-ray)

It seems some people experience problems with this audio disc while others don't. Unfortunately I was one of the ones who had a problem similar to those described in the review by "John H. Gruver "brainactiv"." The disc played beautifully up to about track 17 and from then on it was like a scratched or damaged disc making popping like sounds every so often, ruining the otherwise beautiful music. There was no obvious damage to the disc so it's probably either a bad batch or that some Blu-Ray players are sensitive to a fault toward the end of the disc while others are not. Regarding all the negative Blu-Ray comments; I think the industry needs to formalize a description for this type of audio only disc, as just calling it a Blu-Ray disc is misleading to most who would be expecting more. "Blu-ray Audio Disc" or just "Blu-Ray Audio" seems simple enough and may avoid all the confusion and subsequent negative comments? I have to admit, I was expecting more. You'd think it would have had at least a nice navigation interface showing track information, etc. So, if you do order this disc, expect to hear great music, with the possibility of it being ruined for about the last 1/4 of the disc.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fraudulent Advertising!!!Don't waste your money, NOT BLU-RAY!, October 29, 2009

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SHADOWMAN (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suites 1, 2, & 3 -Experimental Blu-ray Community Project (Blu-ray)

I purchased this product thinking I was getting a blu-ray audio disc, instead I got a dvd-r in 7.1 DTS-MA, sounded good, would not have paid [...] for it. This guy is a ripoff artist and you can see he and his friends are conspiring by posting the same drivel about how great his titles are, yet they curiously don't review anything else.....SCAM BUYER BE WARE!!!!