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02-10-2014, 01:08 PM
"Cranked-up," "Rock 'n' Roll," "thick shag of strings": these are just a few of the unlikely descriptions used by
the writer of the liner notes for his release in a useless attempt to justify the ways of transcription to man. But
no justification is possible or even necessary. To the purist, a transcription is an abomination in the ears of Go
d and man, and any transcription is a mortal sin against the art of Bach. But that hardly matters since
this disc is clearly not for purists; it's for music lovers who want to rock with Bach. And this disc does rock, loud
and hard. After some fairly snoozy years under the aging Andr� Previn, the Los Angeles Philharmonic under
music director Esa-Pekka Salonen has become one of the great virtuoso orchestras in the country, fully capable
of playing Mahler, Stravinsky, Messiaen or even Bach transcriptions with fire and precision.
As you might expect, the disc starts with the most (in)famous Bach transcription of all time: the Stokowski
Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Apparently, to Stokowski, Bach was a chubby German burgher with a penchant
for flashy clothes and cheap jewelry: his transcription of the Toccata is overdressed, fat, and slow. Salonen gives
the devil his due and grants Stokowski all the ponderous weight the LAPO can summon. He even goes so far as to
slow down at the stretto just before the climax of the fugue. One imagines that Stokowski would have loved it.
Amazingly enough, the rest of the disc isn't anticlimatic. The Elgar C minor Fantasy and Fugue is a moving
example of Elgarian Nobilmente at its best. The Schoenberg "St. Anne" Prelude and Fugue is boisterous good fun.
And the Mahler Suite is an infectious confection.
This EAC-FLAC rip includes the complete artwork, booklet, log and cue files.
Please click on "Like" if you downloaded and enjoyed this album!
Music Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
"I'm glad that recordings of Bach transcriptions keep on coming, presumably an indication that the public's desire
for them remains strong. So few people care about organ music these days, and Bach's music is so strong
however you play it that programs such as this continue to offer great listening pleasure. What's more, each
of them usually takes a slightly different tack, though most include Stokowski's famous version of the
Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565. Actually, that's the weakest performance in this otherwise admirable
collection, whose strengths lie in the pointillist Webern arrangement, a spectacularly played and recorded
Elgar (the best since Adrian Boult's, and better even than Slatkin's recent excellent Chandos effort), an amazingly
clear Schoenberg, and best of all, the Mahler suite based on movements from Bach's four Overtures for orchestra.
This last item, very seldom recorded, surely deserves to return to the basic repertoire, combining as it does
respect for the original scoring with Mahler's unparalleled ear for modern orchestration. It's also deliciously
performed, though I would have liked to hear more of the harpsichord (Mahler himself played the piece on a
Steinway concert grand "altered" to sound like a harpsichord, and since he wrote out the entire continuo part
we should be able to hear it clearly). Even so, fanciers of Bach and lovers of transcriptions should grab this. By
the way, the best non-Stoki version of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor is Ozawa's with the Boston Symphony,
part of yet another collection of transcriptions on Philips, now sadly out of print."
Classics Today
This EAC-FLAC rip includes the complete artwork, booklet, log and cue files.
Please click on "Like" if you downloaded and enjoyed this album!
Source: Sony Classical CD (my rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), Level: -5, DDD Stereo
File Size: 310 MB
Download Link - https://mega.co.nz/#!kwlGgIDR!A826A6LFMFRG69asbfugUaUOHeKFgQy5fjg3VFf 2_90
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the original! :)
the writer of the liner notes for his release in a useless attempt to justify the ways of transcription to man. But
no justification is possible or even necessary. To the purist, a transcription is an abomination in the ears of Go
d and man, and any transcription is a mortal sin against the art of Bach. But that hardly matters since
this disc is clearly not for purists; it's for music lovers who want to rock with Bach. And this disc does rock, loud
and hard. After some fairly snoozy years under the aging Andr� Previn, the Los Angeles Philharmonic under
music director Esa-Pekka Salonen has become one of the great virtuoso orchestras in the country, fully capable
of playing Mahler, Stravinsky, Messiaen or even Bach transcriptions with fire and precision.
As you might expect, the disc starts with the most (in)famous Bach transcription of all time: the Stokowski
Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Apparently, to Stokowski, Bach was a chubby German burgher with a penchant
for flashy clothes and cheap jewelry: his transcription of the Toccata is overdressed, fat, and slow. Salonen gives
the devil his due and grants Stokowski all the ponderous weight the LAPO can summon. He even goes so far as to
slow down at the stretto just before the climax of the fugue. One imagines that Stokowski would have loved it.
Amazingly enough, the rest of the disc isn't anticlimatic. The Elgar C minor Fantasy and Fugue is a moving
example of Elgarian Nobilmente at its best. The Schoenberg "St. Anne" Prelude and Fugue is boisterous good fun.
And the Mahler Suite is an infectious confection.
This EAC-FLAC rip includes the complete artwork, booklet, log and cue files.
Please click on "Like" if you downloaded and enjoyed this album!
Music Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
"I'm glad that recordings of Bach transcriptions keep on coming, presumably an indication that the public's desire
for them remains strong. So few people care about organ music these days, and Bach's music is so strong
however you play it that programs such as this continue to offer great listening pleasure. What's more, each
of them usually takes a slightly different tack, though most include Stokowski's famous version of the
Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565. Actually, that's the weakest performance in this otherwise admirable
collection, whose strengths lie in the pointillist Webern arrangement, a spectacularly played and recorded
Elgar (the best since Adrian Boult's, and better even than Slatkin's recent excellent Chandos effort), an amazingly
clear Schoenberg, and best of all, the Mahler suite based on movements from Bach's four Overtures for orchestra.
This last item, very seldom recorded, surely deserves to return to the basic repertoire, combining as it does
respect for the original scoring with Mahler's unparalleled ear for modern orchestration. It's also deliciously
performed, though I would have liked to hear more of the harpsichord (Mahler himself played the piece on a
Steinway concert grand "altered" to sound like a harpsichord, and since he wrote out the entire continuo part
we should be able to hear it clearly). Even so, fanciers of Bach and lovers of transcriptions should grab this. By
the way, the best non-Stoki version of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor is Ozawa's with the Boston Symphony,
part of yet another collection of transcriptions on Philips, now sadly out of print."
Classics Today
This EAC-FLAC rip includes the complete artwork, booklet, log and cue files.
Please click on "Like" if you downloaded and enjoyed this album!
Source: Sony Classical CD (my rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), Level: -5, DDD Stereo
File Size: 310 MB
Download Link - https://mega.co.nz/#!kwlGgIDR!A826A6LFMFRG69asbfugUaUOHeKFgQy5fjg3VFf 2_90
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the original! :)