No original recording date is given for this set, but the back cover helpfully relates that "generations of music lovers were introduced to Bach's instrumental masterworks through these classic Vox recordings from the 1960s." This was one of the bargain three-LP "Vox boxes" that were all beloved of cash-starved classical music collectors in the 1960s, reduced to a pair of CDs. These sets were notorious for their terrible sound, so the remastering here by an organization called Gaudette Associates is noteworthy for creating ...
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No original recording date is given for this set, but the back cover helpfully relates that "generations of music lovers were introduced to Bach's instrumental masterworks through these classic Vox recordings from the 1960s." This was one of the bargain three-LP "Vox boxes" that were all beloved of cash-starved classical music collectors in the 1960s, reduced to a pair of CDs. These sets were notorious for their terrible sound, so the remastering here by an organization called Gaudette Associates is noteworthy for creating basic sonic clarity. The blurb goes on to call German violinist Susanne Lautenbacher "an early pioneer of historically informed violin playing," which indeed she was; she has gone on to make fine recordings of these same Bach sonatas in historical styles. These performances do not seem to use Baroque violins or bows, or much ornamentation, and the dinging harpsichord of Martin Galling, like Lautenbacher born in the 1930s, is a period piece. Yet by the standards of the 1960s these...
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