Violin Concertos / etc
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J. S. BACH
Violin Concertos / etc
Joshua Bell (violin) with the Academy of St Martins in the Fields
[ Sony Music / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 28 November 2014
As follow up to the 2013 acclaimed and chart-topping Beethoven album, Grammy® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell continues as Music Director and Conductor of the world-renowned ensemble, Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
On their new collaboration, this time with Bell also as a soloist, he conducts ASMF from the leader's chair in an all-Bach program.
Joshua Bell is the first American and first person to hold the title of Music Director since Sir Neville Marriner formed the orchestra in 1958.
"such is Bell's particular brand of ease with which he mixes traditional sensibility with the lighter articulations and gestures of recent tastes that one is instantly spellbound...Locating small shapes within a larger architecture is one of Bell's crowning virtues, alongside a depth of sound of almost Henryk Szeryng-like dimensions... the conception is original and exceptionally executed with searing and soaring artistic intent." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Nov 2014)
"The Gavotte makes a perfectly sweet, well-mannered miniature but the Chaconne, such a towering solo piece in itself, doesn't gain a great deal from this treatment...There's redemption, however, in crisp and exciting readings of the Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2 (BWV 1041 and 1042), with Bell and the players in perfect accord." (The Observer)
Tracks:
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV1041
Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV1042
Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004: Chaconne
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String')
Gavotte (Rondeau) from Partita No. 3 in E major BWV1006
