John Butt, Dunedin Consort - Johann Sebastian Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos (2013)

Posted By: ArlegZ

Date: Feb. 14, 2023

John Butt and the Dunedin Consort are familiar to many listeners for their exquisite recordings of Baroque choral masterworks, such as Handel's Messiah and Bach's Mass in B minor, but this set of Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos is the first instrumental outing for the Scottish period ensemble. Playing original instruments or modern copies, and using a lower tuning of A = 392hz, the group recreates Bach's music with a lively combination of extemporaneous ornamentation and propulsive rhythms that is invigorating for its lack of preciosity. The music is by turns brusque and gentle, and at times quite raucous, as it should be in the Concerto No. 1 in F major with its echoing horn calls, chattering oboes, and buzzing bassoon, and vigorous in the Concerto No. 3 in G major, with its energetic string playing. But the Dunedin Consort is just as likely to be refined and elegant, as it is in the slow movements of all the concertos, and especially in the entire Concerto No. 4 in G major, which is the loveliest performance in the set.
–Blair Sanderson

Performer:
Dunedin Consort
John Butt, conductor

Tracklist:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Six Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051
CD1:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046
01. I. […]
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Allegro
04. IV. Menuet. Trio. Polonaise
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047
05. I. […]
06. II. Andante
07. III. Allegro
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
08. I. […]
09. II. Adagio
10. III. Allegro
CD2:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Presto
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Afettuoso
06. III. Allegro
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051
07. I. […]
08. II. Adagio ma non tanto
09. III. Allegro

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