Even though Neville Marriner's 1985 recordings with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are split between two discs in the 2004 EMI Classics reissue, the affordable price makes the acquisition of both worthwhile. The second disc presents the Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 5 and 6, along with the Orchestral Suite No. 1, and all three works are admirably performed and recorded with excellent digital sound for the time. Marriner's interpretations are, as always, impeccably clean, deeply musical, ...
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Even though Neville Marriner's 1985 recordings with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are split between two discs in the 2004 EMI Classics reissue, the affordable price makes the acquisition of both worthwhile. The second disc presents the Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 5 and 6, along with the Orchestral Suite No. 1, and all three works are admirably performed and recorded with excellent digital sound for the time. Marriner's interpretations are, as always, impeccably clean, deeply musical, and reasonably authentic in execution, even though the Academy plays on modern instruments, a rub for purists. While these performances lack the charming timbres of period instruments and are possibly too full-sounding for connoisseurs of a leaner Baroque sound, the fair-minded listener will not find them deficient at all in spirit or color. The Brandenburg Concertos are robust and exciting, and the soloists are all first-rate. Especially noteworthy, George Malcolm's harpsichord...
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