Search - Johann Sebastian Bach, Roy Goodman, Brandenburg Consort :: Bach: The Four Orchestral Suites

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Wayne A. | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 10/28/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There's a set of samples above. Listen to the last track of the second disk, the filler: sinfonia to Cantata 29. You might just buy this set based on that sample--one of the most exciting Bach performances I've ever heard and unlike any performance of that piece I've ever encountered.



Tough to pick a good set of Orchestral Suites but this set rides near the top. Goodman is consistently decent with nearly anything he does. A bit old-schoolish at times--meaning he doesn't tend to force the music too often--and that's fine. Whenever I need a solid centrist (but hardly dull--check out his Beethoven overtures disc on Nimbus) performance he and his people fit the bill.



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Best Version of the Orchestral Suites I've ever heard... let

Blóðugr Örn | Middle Earth | 10/19/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I like just about everything Hyperion releases and I've never heard these by now over recorded suites performed with so much power and exuberance. Funny - the review below says that this album drags - far from it in my book! Other renderings sound stiff, boring and definately drag out. There's a genius to Goodman's cunducting (from the viola) that brings these pieces to life and "lubricates" (if I may use a sexual analogy...) an otherwise stuffy Bach!"