Orchestral & Symphonic

Bach's music featured early in Ansermet's career and he conducted the fourth Orchestral Suite in his last concert. Playing Bach in the 1960s was not quite the affair it is today, but it would be false to assume that Ansermet's Bach is the bloated,...

Bach's late, contrapuntal masterwork, left incomplete upon his death in 1750. Played here on an untempered piano and complete on 2 CDs. French/Swiss pianist Cedric Pescia has concertized throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Professor of...

Bach's four Missae Breves or 'Lutheran Masses' have sometimes been dismissed by scholars as less worthy than 'warhorses' such as the Christmas Oratorio or the Magnificat. But what a surprise awaits those who dare to listen to these works and discover the...

Bach's cantatas form an inexhaustibly rich corpus of the highest musical inspiration, embracing all the compositional tendencies of his time and thus of his own music. The two masterpieces coupled here invite us to measure his evolution over a decade. In...

Bach: The Complete Keyboard works. (20CD) Box set Zuzana Ruzickov This 20-CD set of Bach recordings marks the 90th birthday of the great Czech harpsichordist Zuzana Ru?ickov, which falls on January 14th 2017. The recordings were originally made for Erato...

Bach: Italian Concertos (Concertos Italiens) by Alexandre Tharaud - Seduced by the colors and the vivacity of Italian music, Bach took great pleasure in transcribing concertos by Vivaldi, Marcello and Torelli before composing one of his own invention...

Bach/Vivaldi/Albinoni: Musica Barocca / Baroque Masterpieces ARTIST: Giovanni Antonini & Il Giardino Armonico - The very best of baroque repetoire in a sensitive, compelling version performed on period intruments by the tempestuous Il Giardino Armonico...

Bach wrote three sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord. Scholars estimate they were composed in the early 1740s, possibly for Carl Fredrich Abel, son of Bach's colleague Christian Ferdinand Abel. They are paired here with Scarlatti's Gamba Sonata...

Bach to Bartok, Mozart to Scott Joplin - Roger Woodward's personal selection of miniature masterworks. Featured on this double CD are Beethoven's Fur Elise and the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata, Preludes by Debussy and the Swan from Carnival of...

BACH / SONATAS & PARTITAS After a career break of more than a decade she has announced the decision to return to the recording studio. With this album she fulfils a lifelong dream of recording the complete violin solo works by J. S. Bach, a project very...

BACH / SACRED CANTATAS - For his first album devoted entirely to works sung in German, star countertenor Philippe Jaroussky has chosen four religious cantatas: two by J.S. Bach (including the much-loved 'Ich habe genug') and two by Georg Philipp Telemann...

Ba?ka Album by Nemanja Radulovic After his exciting journey into the musical tradition of Eastern Europe with his album Journey East, the Baroque sound-scapes of Bach and the Russian melodies of Tchaikovsky, the Franco-Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulovic...