Bach: Brandenburg Concertos / Pinnock

Trevor Pinnock - Conductor, European Brandeburg Ensemble

GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER - BAROQUE INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING OF 2008
"There is such a variety of fine recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos that any new recording needs some justification." Thus writes Trevor Pinnock in the liner notes to his new recording of the Brandenburg concertos on Avie. He succeeds on paper – with his warm description for his personal reasons of re-recording the Brandenburgs, of differing musical choices, and on how the recording and the performances of the European Brandenburg Ensemble became a very personal tribute and cause as tragedy struck the ensemble and took violist Katherine McGillivray from them.
Whether Pinnock succeeds on record is more difficult to answer. At the least he adds yet another very fine recording to the many fine recordings available, a quarter century after his recording with the English Consort on Archiv came out. The European Brandenburg Ensemble (EBE) was specifically founded to play these works. It is made up of players of all ages and European countries – particularly to eschew any one, nationally flavored style of baroque playing… to achieve the universality that makes Bach’s language so special. Pinnock succeeds on that point, too: There is no particularly "British" flavor to these Brandenburg concertos. He also succeeds in introducing a greater sense of spontaneity that comes close to spirit of the live performances that took the EBE all over Europe and to Asia with these works. All as part of a big Bach-embracing 60th Birthday tour of Pinnock’s. Musicweb-international.com - Jens F. Laurson

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