In the early phase of the movement for authentic period practice, Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert were practically household names -- in early music households, anyway -- because of their critically acclaimed performances of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and other Baroque composers. These exciting recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos, the orchestral suites, the harpsichord concertos, the violin concertos, and concertos for various instruments were made between 1979 and 1984, so they are a mix of ADD and DDD ...
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In the early phase of the movement for authentic period practice, Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert were practically household names -- in early music households, anyway -- because of their critically acclaimed performances of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and other Baroque composers. These exciting recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos, the orchestral suites, the harpsichord concertos, the violin concertos, and concertos for various instruments were made between 1979 and 1984, so they are a mix of ADD and DDD recordings. Yet because of Archiv's superb reproduction in both analog and digital technologies, these performances on original instruments are clean and crisp all the way through, with remarkable fidelity. What passes for historically informed style is open to change over the years, and many later performances of these works have demonstrated new ideas and approaches that are much freer in spirit. Indeed, Pinnock's interpretations and the group's technical execution can seem a bit...
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