Bach's Orchestral Suites - Recommendations Please

[Roslynmuse]

I've long been an admirer of the ASMF Marriner which when it came out was a breath of fresh air compared to the stodgy versions available at the time.

Unfortunately I got to know these pieces in my teens through one of those 'stodgy' versions - the Munchinger Decca set that was reissued many many times. Even now, I can't listen to them without hearing Munchinger's thick textures and slow tempi like ghosts behind whatever a more H-I performance offers.

[Nick Armstrong]

Unfortunately I got to know these pieces in my teens through one of those 'stodgy' versions - the Munchinger Decca set that was reissued many many times. Even now, I can't listen to them without hearing Munchinger's thick textures and slow tempi like ghosts behind whatever a more H-I performance offers.

I studied the first Suite for Music 'O' level, and the recording we listened to was Munchinger. It hasn't particularly haunted my listening since.

The most haunting association of an 'old style' performance for me is the butchered version used to (for me) exhilarating effect in that lovely little film "Antoine et Colette" (Truffaut's French segment of the portmanteau "L'Amour à Vingt Ans"): where the teenage hero chooses an LP of the piece to accompany opening the shutters of his little studio first thing in the morning and surveying Paris: see from 2' 30" here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JMVX...eature=related (... something I recreated many a time during my first year away from home in Paris, working in a record shop etc.)

[amateur51]

I studied the first Suite for Music 'O' level, and the recording we listened to was Munchinger. It hasn't particularly haunted my listening since.

The most haunting association of an 'old style' performance for me is the butchered version used to (for me) exhilarating effect in that lovely little film "Antoine et Colette" (Truffaut's French segment of the portmanteau "L'Amour à Vingt Ans"): where the teenage hero chooses an LP of the piece to accompany opening the shutters of his little studio first thing in the morning and surveying Paris: see from 2' 30" here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JMVX...eature=related (... something I recreated many a time during my first year away from home in Paris, working in a record shop etc.)

Great memories, Caliban - and look at all those Goddesses parked side-by-side as the music moves on ... :sigh:

[Nick Armstrong]

Great memories, Caliban - and look at all those Goddesses parked side-by-side as the music moves on ... :sigh:

I know!!! I wonder why the first car I ever bought was a DS23?!

I was Antoine Doinel!

The whole thing is unbelievably nostalgic for me - even though it's nearly 20 years before I ever set foot in Paris...

[Flay]

see from 2' 30" here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JMVX...eature=related

And see his magic tie trick at 4'25"

[Flay]

And who is that ghost walking backwards behind him straight after that?

[Nick Armstrong]

And who is that ghost walking backwards behind him straight after that?

It's a cardboard cutout of Georges Brassens... amusing... someone carrying one of those cardboard shop-window advertising photos.

(Re: the tie - you're one of those people who has an eagle eye for continuity errors, are you?! I'm very slow to notice things like that!)

I've always been curious to know which orchestra and which conductor are playing the Symph Fantastique later in the clip... I must remember to check the credits! (the rest of the film is available there - you can see HD2, HD3 & HD4 featured when that clip is finished, being the four segments - I think it's just 4)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

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[Thropplenoggin]

er if you like downloads from amazon here is a real steal ..collected armonici for £20

I was listing to Il Giardino Armonico's Four Seasons today...utterly entrancing, almost violent, reminded me of rock music in its use of quiet/loud dynamics. My BaL recommendation, if not CD Review's.

[Nick Armstrong]

I was listing to Il Giardino Armonico's Four Seasons today...utterly entrancing, almost violent, reminded me of rock music in its use of quiet/loud dynamics. My BaL recommendation, if not CD Review's.

It has long been the only one I listen to for pleasure - not least as it's the only one I own

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i am very fond of Gidon Kremer with Abbado and the LSO in the Four seasons