Like the Brandenburg Concertos and other instrumental works of Johann Sebastian Bach, the four Orchestral Suites are available in mainstream and period versions, and listeners have a variety of valid interpretations to explore. This 2019 release by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano definitely belongs to the period category, and fans of original instrumentation and researched historical practices will find this album not only true to Baroque style but also as robust and energetic as any performance on modern ...
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Like the Brandenburg Concertos and other instrumental works of Johann Sebastian Bach, the four Orchestral Suites are available in mainstream and period versions, and listeners have a variety of valid interpretations to explore. This 2019 release by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano definitely belongs to the period category, and fans of original instrumentation and researched historical practices will find this album not only true to Baroque style but also as robust and energetic as any performance on modern instruments. What sets this double-disc package from Naïve apart from other recordings of the suites (also called ouvertures) is the inclusion of comparable works by two of Bach's second cousins, the Ouverture in E minor of Johann Bernhard Bach and the Ouverture in G major of Johann Ludwig Bach, members of the extended family of composers who collectively made their surname a synonym for musician. Because these obscure pieces are positioned between the much more familiar suites of the...
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