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(This article is an essay/review of the second "version" of the Brilliant Classics complete Bach set. The first release was in a series of 23 boxes, each of which contained CDs in standard jewel boxes. This new release is in one large box (about 45 centimetres long), with all 160 CDs in slipcases, together with all of the notes in one 500-page CD-sized book. The main advantage of this set over the first release is the space it takes up. Imagine having all of Bach's music in just 45 cm. of shelf space!)
Brilliant Classics embarked on a daring project in the year 2000, the year of the 250th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death: this budget label decided to release a complete set of Bach's works. They were not the only label to do so - Teldec and Haenssler both did as well - but the Brilliant Classics set stands out for several reasons. First, they attempted (though did not fully succeed) to create a complete set entirely recorded on period instruments, using historically informed performances. As their web site states, "The new recordings follow scrupulously the newest developments and insights offered by the leading Early Music scholars as regards the performance practice of Baroque music in general and the music of Bach in particular." Well, not all the instruments are truly period instruments, and one cannot say the that performances are 100% historically informed, but this is not much of a problem, and there is no reason for this to be seen as essentially negative.
This set stands out for one very important reason: some 65% of the 160 CDs in this set were newly recorded (the remainder was licensed from other labels), including Bach's almost 200 sacred cantatas. The scale of this project is such that one could call it folly. Recording 200 cantatas - or about 60 hours of music - in 15 months is as mad as building a cathedral or digging a tunnel across the English Channel. In fact, one could think that any conductor who would be willing to attempt such a feat is simple crazy.
Not at all. In fact, if one thing stands out in this set, it is the 60 CDs of sacred cantatas, recorded in unique conditions, by a man who had never recorded any such quantity of music before.
Vol I - Orchestral Works & Chamber Music
Brandenburg Concertos
Consort of London, Robert Haydon Clark
Orchestral Suites
Consort of London, Robert Haydon Clark
Violin Concertos
Emmy Verhey, Rainer Kussmaul, Henk Rubingh & Thomas Hengelbrock (violins), Amsterdam Bach Soloists
Harpsichord Concertos
Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord), Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum, Burkhard Glaetzner, Paul Leonhouts (recorder)
Concertos for 2 & 3 Harpsichords
Anton Heioller, Erna Heiller & Kurt Rapf (harpsichords), I Solist di Zagreb, Antonio Janigro
Double Concertos
Netherland Bach Ensemble, u.a.
Sonate e Partite per Violino Solo
Mark Lubotsky (violin)
Cello Suites
Robert Cohen (cello)
Flute Sonatas
Stephen Preston (traverso), Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord), Jordi Savall (viola da gamba)
Lute Works
Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Viola da Gamba Sonatas
John Dornenburg (viola da gamba), Malcolm Proud (harpsichord)
Musikalisches Opfer
Netherlands Bach Ensemble
Violin Sonatas
Luis Otavio Santos (baroque violin), Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)
Notenbuchlein fur Anna Magdalena Bach
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord), Johannette Zomer (soprano)
Violin Sonatas, Trio Sonatas
Trio Sonnerie; Ensemble Il Quadrilfoglio; Bach Ensemble Heidelberg
Vol II - Keyboard Works
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Leon Berben (harpsichord)
Six Partitas
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)
Sonatas, Suites, Preludes & Fugues
Christiane Wuyts (harpsichord)
Italian Concerto, Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue, French Overture
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)
Goldberg Variations
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)
English Suites
Bob van Asperen (harpsichord)
Concerto Transcriptions after various composers
Pieter Dirksen (harpsichord)
French Suites
Joseph Payne (harpsichord)
Toccatas
Menno van Delft (harpsichord)
Kunst der Fuge (Art of Fugue)
Menno van Delft (harpsichord)
Sonatas, Suites, Fantasias, Preludes & Fugues
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)
Inventionen & Sinfonias, usw.
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)
Vol III-IV - Cantantas
Cantantas
Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink (conductor)
Ruth Holton (soprano), Sytse Buwalda (alto), Nico van der Meel (tenor), Knut Schoch (tenor), Bas Ramselaar (bass), Pieter Jan Leusink (conductor)
Recording: April - September 1999
Vol V - Vocal Works
Vol V - Vocal Works
Mass in B minor
Catherine Dubosc & Catherine Denley(sopranos), James Bowman(alto), John Mark Ainsley(tenor), Michael George(bass), The Sixteen Choir & Orchestra, Harry Christophers
Messes
Renate Krahmer(soprano), Annelies Burmeister(alto), Peter Schreier(tenor), Theo Adam(bass), Dresdner Kreuzchor, Dresdner Philharmonia, Martin Flamig
Sacred Songs & Arias
Georg Jelden(baritone), Heinz Schnauffer(organ)
Motets
Ensemble vocal de Lausanne, Michel Corboz
Easter Oratorio
Christine Brenk(soprano), Anne Greiling(alto), Frank Bossert(tenor), Thomas Pfeiffer(bass), u.a., S(ue)dwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Prof.Rolf Schweizer
Secular Cantatas
Edith Mathis & Arleen Auger(sopranos), Carolyn Watkinson & Julia Hanari(altos), Peter Schreier(tenor), Siegfried Lorenz(bass), Theo Adam(bass), Berliner Solisten, Kammerorchester Berlin, Peter Schreier
Two Wedding Cantatas
Edith Mathis & Lucia Popp(sopranos), Kammerorchester Berlin, Peter Schreier
St. Matthew Passion
Rogers Covey-Crump(tenor, Evangelist), Michael George(bass, Jesu), Emma Kirkby(soprano), Michael Chance(alto), Martyn Hill(tenor), David Thomas(bass), The Choir of King's College Cambridge, The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, The Brandenburg Consort, Stephen Cleobury
St. John Passion
John Mark Ainsley(tenor, Evangelist), Stephen Richardson(bass, Jesus), Catherine Bott(soprano), Michael Chance(alto), Paul Agnew(tenor), Stephen Varcoe(bass), The Choir of King's College Cambridge, The Brandenburg Consort, Stephen Cleobury
St. Mark Passion
Rogers Covey-Crump(tenor, Evangelist), Gordon Jones(baritone, Jesus), Connor Burrowes(treble), David james(alto), Paul Agnew(tenor), Teppo Tolonen(baritone), The Ring Ensemble of Finland, European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman
St. Luke Passion
Georg Jelden(tenor, Evangelist), Ulrich Schaible(bass, Jesus), Balinger Kantorei, Kammerorchester Collegium Musicum Tubingen, Gerhard Rehm
Christmas Oratorio Cantata
Arleen Auger(soprano), Annelies Burmeister(alto), Peter Schreier(tenor), Theo Adam(bass), Dresdner Kreuzchor, Dresdner Philharmonie, Martin Flamig
Ascension Oratorio
Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Peter Jan Leusink
Tilge, Hochster, meine Sunden
Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Peter Jan Leusink
Magnificat
Lynda Russell & Gillian Fischer(sopranos), Alison Browner & Caroline Trevor(altos), Ian Partridge(tenor), Mischael George(bass), The Sixteen Choir & Orchestra, Harry Christophers
Chorales
Nordic Chamber Choir, Solosts of the Freiburger Barockorchester, Nicol Matt
Vol VI - Organ Works
Organ Works
Hans Fagius(organ)
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