This album does not, needless to say, offer a new set of undiscovered Bach Brandenburg Concertos. What's less clear is that it also isn't the "reconstruction" promised in the album graphics. There are reasons to believe that a good deal of Bach's instrumental music, especially from the 1720s, has been lost; that Bach may have repurposed vocal music into instrumental music; and that Georg Philipp Telemann is known to have done so in a way similar to the "Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 7-12" on this release, replacing the vocal ...
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This album does not, needless to say, offer a new set of undiscovered Bach Brandenburg Concertos. What's less clear is that it also isn't the "reconstruction" promised in the album graphics. There are reasons to believe that a good deal of Bach's instrumental music, especially from the 1720s, has been lost; that Bach may have repurposed vocal music into instrumental music; and that Georg Philipp Telemann is known to have done so in a way similar to the "Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 7-12" on this release, replacing the vocal lines of cantata movements with solo instruments in Brandenburg-style instrumentation. None of it adds up to convincing reconstructed Brandenburgs, and arranger Bruce Haynes writes that these pieces are "more in the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the famous recordings by the Swingle Singers or of Wendy Carlos ... not meant as serious reconstructions, merely as speculative trials ...." The Bande Montréal Baroque under Eric Milnes plays well enough that you're ready to listen to the genuine...
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