Brahms-Schoenberg: Piano Quartet for orchestra

Arnold Schoenberg's orchestrations of:
Brahms: Piano Quartet in g, op. 25
Bach Chorale Preludes:
"Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele", BWV 654
"Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist, BWV 631

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

Schoenberg is usually thought of as impossibly dissonant but he was secretly the very last gasp of German Romanticism. With his orchestration of the piano quintet one is tempted to imagine Brahms on pschedelics while Schoenberg's Bach out-Stokovskies Stokowski. Analogue audiocassette of a digital master, 1986.

Schoenberg-Brahms
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The Well-Tempered Clavichord, Ralph Kirkpatrick

Fourteen preludes and fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier

Before Kirkpatrick, the Well-Tempered Clavier was performed on Bösendorfer pianos and on harpsichords with thirty-two-foot registers. Ralph's clavichord caught everyone off guard - even his engineers didn't understand how to record it. The sound of the nine pieces from Book One recorded in 1961 is different from that of the five pieces from Book Two recorded in 1969 and yet the microphones were jammed next to the tangents during both sessions. Kirkpatrick held up well under that scrutiny.

The Well-Tempered Clavichord
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Bach: Trio Sonatas, Marie-Claire Alain

J.S. Bach: The Trio Sonatas
Marie-Claire Alain

All four trio sonatas, recorded between May 1978 and April 1980 on the Schwenkedel de la Collégiale organ, Saint-Donat, Drôme. Alain was an organist's organist: flawless in rhythm, articulation, and registration. Not just accurate but stylish as well.

Alain - Bach trio sonatas
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Bach: selections from Anna Magdalena's Notebook

Elly Ameling, soprano
Hans-Martin Linde, baritone
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
Johannes Koch, viola da gamba
Angelica May, cello
Rudolf Ewerhart, positif organ

Harmonia Mundi, 1966

A surprising performance by many of the great musicians of the late twentieth century. If you didn't know that this was recorded in their youth you'd swear it was the work of musicians twice their age. Even their recording engineer's work is sophisticated.

selections from Anna Magdalena's Notebook
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Lionel Rogg plays J. S. Bach

Lionel Rogg (born 1936) is a Swiss organist and composer who became highly acclaimed in the 1960s; he continues to be active even today.

On this audiocassette he is performing on the organs of the Cathédrale St Pierre, Geneva (1975), Klosterkirche, Muri (1985), and Monastery Sorö, Denmark (1976).

Toccata and Fugue in d
Chorale: Wachet auf
Chorale: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
Fantasy and Fugue in g
Concerto in a after Vivaldi
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C
Passacaglia in c

Rogg plays Bach
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