Playlist
Presenter: Andrew McGregor
Comments from Rinaldo Alessandrini
BACH The Brandenburg Concertos BWV 1046-1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F Major BWV 1047, played): Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director) - Brandenburg Concerto No.5 BWV 1050 in D Major (played; c/w Sinfonia BWV 174 'Ich liebe den Hoechsten von ganzem Gemuete'; + A Film by Philippe Beziat - 'Rinaldo Alessandrini & Concerto Italiano record the Brandenburg Concertos' )
NAÏVE OP 30412 (2-CD + DVD)
Comments from Rachel Podger
BACH Solo Violin Sonata No.2 in A Minor BWV 1003 (played; c/w Violin Sonata No.3 in C Major, BWV 1005; Partita No.3 in E Major, BWV 1006 (from CD entitled 'Partitas and Sonatas for Violin Solo Volume 2'):
Rachel Podger (violin)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS 14498 (CD)
Comments from Alain de Botton
A BACH CANTATA SURVEY:
Jonathan Freeman Attwood & Andrew McGregor in discussion
Recordings from 1950 to the present day.
BACH Cantata No.135 Ach Herr, mich armen Sunder BWV 135 (played; c/w Cantata No.2 Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein BWV 2; Cantata No.38 Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir BWV 38 (from CD entitled 'Bach Cantatas Volume 29'): Dorothee Mields (soprano), Pascal Bertin (countertenor), Gerd Turk (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)
BIS SACD 1461 (CD/SACD hybrid)
Comments from Davitt Moroney
CD which is part of Joseph Kerman's book 'The Art of Fugue - Bach Fugues for Keyboard 1715-1750' published by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
ISBN 0520 243587
BACH Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor BWV 904 (played; c/w Prelude and Fugue in C Major from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I+; Fughetta in C Major BWV 952; Fugue on 'Jesus Christus unser Heiland' (Clavierubung III); Prelude and Fugue in B Major from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book II+:
Davitt Moroney (harpsichord, organ, clavichord), + Karen Rosenak (piano)
BACH Cantata No.216 Vergnugte Pleissenstadt BWV 216 (reconstructed Joshua Rifkin) (played; c/w Cantata No.210 O holder Tag, erwunschte Zeit, BWV210*: Susanne Ryden (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (alto), Naomi Satake* (soprano),
Bach Concertino Osaka Orchestra,
Joshua Rifkin (director)
MAINICHI CLASSICS MNCL 104 (CD)
BACH Prelude & Fugue in E Flat Major "St Anne" BWV 552.2 (played; c/w Piece d'Orgue in G Major BWV 572; Ricercar from 'The Musical Offering' BWV 1079; Passacaglia in C Minor BWV 582 - and other keyboard works transcribed for viols (from CD entitled 'Alio Modo'): Fretwork
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907395 (CD)
Comments from Dame Gillian Weir
BACH The Eighteen Chorales (Leipzig Chorale Preludes BWV 651-668) (Komm, Gott, Schoepfer, heiliger Geist BWV 667; Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit BWV 668 played; c/w Fantasia in G BWV 572; Trio Sonata No.4 in E Minor BWV 528; Prelude & Fugue in B Minor BWV 544; Toccata & Fugue in F Major BWV 540): Gillian Weir (Gerald Wohl Bach Organ of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig)
PRIORY PRCD 800 AB (2-CD)
