This reissue of a 1986 recording exemplifies the old approaches to performing and recording the orchestral music of the High Baroque, with modern instruments, watery sound in a live space (the poorly edited booklet does not say where), and an articulation approach marked by the dainty touch that passed for Baroque interpretation for many years. As such, it's better than most of its contemporaries, even if rather harsh sound has not been improved by remastering. Violinist Jaime Laredo has a feel for the specific excitement ...
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This reissue of a 1986 recording exemplifies the old approaches to performing and recording the orchestral music of the High Baroque, with modern instruments, watery sound in a live space (the poorly edited booklet does not say where), and an articulation approach marked by the dainty touch that passed for Baroque interpretation for many years. As such, it's better than most of its contemporaries, even if rather harsh sound has not been improved by remastering. Violinist Jaime Laredo has a feel for the specific excitement of Baroque style and for how to shape a movement out of sets of layers of various sizes. He serves as both soloist and conductor with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, adding other soloists for the three multiple-violin concertos included. In the Bach concertos he excels, with subtle details in the shaping of tutti lines on which he then elaborates as soloist. He pays close attention to Bach's complex and evolving relationships between tutti and solo, and he never lets the soloists get...
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