Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Allegro" and more. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. and now I have the complete, Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2011. They enlisted Rilling to oversee the set, and came up with a wonderful collection of 172 CDs in 140 volumes (a number of the volumes contain 2 or 3 discs). Another fine recording, again by Robert Hill, shows off the rarely recorded lute-harpsichord. I really wanted to like this set. I have a very large collection of Bach recordings other than this set, and I am delighted beyond measure to have this, especially for the vocal music which I have never really listened to or appreciated. No colour coding, all white so guess where about one set of recordings stops and another starts. Complete Works Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, et al./Helmut Rilling Hänssler 140 volumes - 172CDs Or. So, back to my initial question: do you need this set? There are also two booklets: one is a full catalogue of the set, by disc, with track-listings; this runs to nearly 300 pages. I am not a Bach expert so I do not offer a view on the recordings. This is where this box is simply a bargain. And with modern instruments. Snag is that nowadays it is better to see him as the father of seventeen children who had a sense of humour as evidenced by some of his secular cantatas. The Complete Works of Johann Sebastian Bach - Bachakademie 10th Anniversary Label: H anssler (Note: alternative label spellings are: Hänssler or Haenssler) Number Of Discs: 5. But opening it is exhilarating and overwhelming. You could buy individual CDs, filling your collection slowly, looking for the best versions of each work. To name but a few that stand out: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Arleen Augér, Helen Watts, Edith Wiens, Peter Schreier, Philipp Huttenlocher, Matthias Goerne, Juliane Banse, Thomas Quasthoff, Christoph Prégardien and many more. To receive the whole of Bach for the same price is a windfall indeed. It's a big box, sleek and well-designed, and, as you can see in the illustration to this review, opens to show the CDs in three sections. To record all of Bach is obviously an epic undertaking and Haenssler, Rilling et. This is something you never hear in live performance; while one instrument may be on one side, you still hear it on the other side. I have listened to every CD at least 5 times, and many many CDs probably 10 or 15 times. The complete works of J.S. Registration will open on December 1, 2020. The same can be said for the other sacred works, the passions, oratorios and masses. The Cantatas are stellar! Presumably anyone who buys this complete set already has favorite recordings of key selections, which won't be eclipsed. Let's start by looking at what you get in the box. Proposes a complete organ transcription of BWV 1039 Trio Sonata in G Major. Philip Bailey overdoses on Bach's Complete Works, Brilliant Classics 93102 Back in the days of 78s it would have been inconceivable to contemplate an issue of the complete organ works of J. S. Bach, with one prelude and fugue occupying one side of a 12” shellac disc. (review). The original packaging of this set was a worldwide bestseller featuring brand new recordings of the complete Cantatas along with many other new recordings made for the release and numerous recordings licensed from other record labels. It depends on how Bach-obsessed you are. The recordings are digital and better quality, because they are more recent. Add it to your Christmas list, perhaps, or buy yourself a present. In some ways I would have preferred a single organist, even at different locations, but this isn't a deal-breaker. Globally recognized as the ONLY authoritative editionof Bach's works NOW AVAILABLE at a NEWcompetitive price - a celebration of a lifetime's work- and sought-after throughout the World hänsslerCLASSIC's Complete Works of Bach, produced incooperation with the International Bach Academy.172 CDs - recorded under the direction of ProfessorHelmuth Rilling from 1975 to 2000!Helmuth Rilling was awarded the Grand Prix duDisque for his landmark recordings of cantatas andthey now enjoy benchmark status. There are treasures within for the most fanatic aficionados. Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2018. Bach complete organ works cover great preludes fantasias, toccatas and fugues, for which page turn optimisation is greatly beneficial. In fact, the first big Brilliant Classics box I got was their set of Bach recordings, released back in 2001. The UMD Library all of the currently published volumes of the Bach Neue Ausgabe Sämtlicher Werke (Bach's Complete Works).The call number for the set is M 3 .B1133. Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2012. There are nearly 178 hours of music in this box, which is a daunting prospect for anyone. But this doesn't detract from the overall tone. The discs are therefore easy to find and choose from the box. I cannot recommend this set strongly enough! I have been listening to Bach all of my life, and am humbled by the sheer volume of wonderful music of his that I have never had the joy of hearing. but for me it is pure joy. Too many pages per volume, is not easy to manipulate then (but have a good bind, and complete Bach`s piano works in performance edition is too much expensive) The best: the most complete edition. I really do love J.S. I'd note especially Trevor Pinnock's superlative recording of the Partitas; Peter Watchorn's great Toccatas disc; and the Well-Tempered Clavier recorded by Robert Levin in a unique manner, with different works played on harpsichord, clavichord, organ and fortepiano. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 54/1: II. Buy this set and you will be knee-deep in Bach – literally. Every note is there but they seem almost too scholarly in his approach. This tends to make some of the movements sound as though there's no blend among the singers and musicians. New Bach Edition is an excellent choice. Having purchased the Brilliant complete set a couple of years ago, I really only wanted the sacred cantatas by Rilling and his forces. as they've done with the Well-Tempered Klavier. Stream songs including "Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Wq. Excellent and varied performances of the Cantatas! One of the only elements I find missing is versions of The Art of Fugue for organ and for chamber orchestra. I don't think that I can add more of substance on this collection. Organ recordings often try to vary their sound by using different organs, and the sound is different from one to another, as is the style. 54/1: I. Allegro", "Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Wq. Bach are available at an affordable price in these strong recordings, with very helpful documentation such as texts. Orchestral works, Concertos, Cantatas, Vocal works, Chamber music, Keyboard works, Organ works However, technically they continue where Karl Richter left off. Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Manze, Stephen Cleobury, La Stravaganza Köln, Pieter - Jan Belder, Emmy Verhey, Jaap Ter Linden, The Choir of King's College Cambridge, The Brandenberg Consort, the Sixteen - Bach Edition: Complete Works (155 CD Box Set) - Amazon.com Music Bach: Complete Works for Organ [Digital Recording] - Marie-Claire Alain on AllMusic - 1994 - The grande dame of French organists, Marie-Claire… Others are more qualified than I to give detailed comments on performance etc - but just to note for £47 (with free postage) for 172 CDs covering Bach's work under a well respected conductor with a booklet of almost 300 pages listing the tracks together a CD-ROM giving fuller details is an incredible bargain. Of these around a thousand are original compositions by Bach, that is: more than a mere copy or transcription of an earlier work by himself or another composer. This app includes the complete list of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, according to the BWV catalogue, with free music, videos and scores for almost every composition. Boris Pergamenschikow's cello suites are ponderous; Dmitry Sitkovetsky's solo violin recordings are a bit better, but not up to the competition. Edited by the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Göttingen and by the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. I would say they are exactly in the style of Karl Richter and the Bach Munich Orchestra. And Rilling's choirs are always top-notch. I've found lots of great deals on Amazon over the years, but this is easily the most worthwhile purchase I have made in the last ten years. This release has been blocked from sale in the marketplace. I have all Glenn Gould's recordings, Helmut Walcha's, and Karl Richter's 75 Cantatas and several other hundred CDs and recordings of Bach. 172 CDs - recorded under the direction of Professor Helmuth Rilling from 1975 to 2000! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2020. Unable to add item to List. Obviously, I'd say if you are into Historic Instrument Performances, avoid it. This Bach-itis has led me to collect more than 1,000 discs of Bach, and, while I've slowed down on purchases in recent years, I do pick up some new Bach recordings every now and then, notably the recently concluded set of cantatas recorded by John Eliot Gardiner (review). 7 by Ana-Marija Markovina on Apple Music. have rendered us a great service by packaging such sublime music into an astoundingly cheap box set. These are provided in 14 PDF files that you can view on any computer. Complete Works Audition Awards Ceremony Gold Medal Winners: John Perry Piano Masterclass The price is so wonderful, Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2014. Complete works organized into groups for download. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for J.S. A complete set of Bach which owes nothing to historically informed performance practice, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2018. This is a mixed bag, with some excellent recordings, but quite a few mediocre discs. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Please try again. Robert Hill's recording of The Art of Fugue on harpsichord is brilliant, and includes early versions of some of the fugues; the notes explain the different versions, and tell you how you can program the tracks in such a way as to listen to the two different versions of the work. Best complete Bach set. So far I've barely scratched the surface, even though the sacred vocal works are the heart of the collection. Please Subscribe to our New channel @PAINTED. Even fans of Bach will find some works that don't interest them much - perhaps the eight discs of chorale settings, which have not been recorded often, yet contain some gems - but choosing either to traverse the set in order, or at random, yields many excellent recordings. There are over 1500 works that feature in a catalogue of works by Bach, like the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, and/or in a collection of works associated with Bach (e.g. The organ works are performed by seven different organists, playing in different locations. However, for a set at this price you would expect that the cds would be in plain white sticky envelopes. Rachmaninov: The Complete Works [32 CD][Limited Edition], Glenn Gould: A State of Wonder - The Complete Goldberg Variations 1955 & 1981, Bach: 6 Brandenburg Concertos / 4 Orchestral Suites, Ravel: The Complete Edition / Œuvres Complètes, Rachmaninov: Complete Works For Piano [11 CD]. Prepared with the most exacting methods of source criticism, it has set new standards for modern scholarly-critical editions in the latter half of the 20th century. Really the company producing them could not get printed card envelopes!!! A wonderful collection I bought some time ago, Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2017. While this is a minor detail, it can be obvious if you compare different recordings of a given cantata. This app includes the complete list of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, according to the BWV catalogue, with free music, videos and scores for almost every composition. Rilling's recordings are more dense and lush than others, and his tempi are often slower than HIP recordings - no "original instruments" for Rilling. Includes all BWV organ works, even those identified as spurious (with the exception of BWV 771, a partita by Nicolaus Vetter). There's a problem loading this menu right now. But he creates such a detailed sound-world that any fan of these works should want to hear Rilling's versions to compare with others. If you even like Bach you simply have to get this set. There are over 1000 known compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, which are listed here in the order of their numbers in the most recent BWV catalogue, including the spurious works in the BWV Anhang ("Appendix"). The organ works fill 20 CDs, the keyboard works 32, 11 discs of chamber music, 11 discs of orchestral music, and 4 discs of alternate versions of cantatas. For an overview of Bach’s complete organ works, check the Bach OrganScore Complete Edition Page. I notably purchased many of the keyboard recordings, and some of them have become my favourites. It is more expensive, but I think it's a much more worthwhile investment than the more uneven Brilliant Classics set. I'd give it six stars if I could. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Do you need 172 CDs of Bach's music? While I have a preference for John Eliot Gardiner's cantata recordings, because of his forces and his more HIP choices, there is no doubt that Rilling's recordings are excellent. Please try again. Perhaps you're a casual fan of Bach's music and you want more. I've long been a fan of the latter approach, especially since Brilliant Classics has shaken up the classical music business with their very low priced box sets of complete (or collected) works of various composers. Also, every time you need to unstick and then stick again the envelope. (Individual works may be downloaded via the catalog or search pages.) CLASSIC's Complete Works of Bach, produced in cooperation with the International Bach Academy. Helmuth Rilling is an excellent conductor and interpreter of Bach's sacred music. Listen to your favorite songs from Bach: Complete Works for Harpsichord by Martin Galling Now. al. I would gladly have paid $250 for these alone. This set contains the works of Johann Sebastian Bach which are originally written by Bach, fully completed by him, and of undisputed authenticy. 2. Notes — concerning related works, completeness, authorship, etc. Energy and joy radiate from these performances. It is a historical-critical edition (German: historisch-kritische Ausgabe) of Bach's complete works by the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute (Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut) in Göttingen and the Bach Archive (Bach-Archiv) in Leipzig, When Bach died most of his work was unpublished. If you're familiar with Rilling's cantata recordings, and appreciate them, then this set is worth getting if only for those discs - which do make up more than a third of the set. -- MusicWeb International, Kirk McElhearn, November 2010. Recorded from 1969 to 1985, over a longer period of time than most other sets, there is a lot of change throughout the series. If you see Bach as a very serious German church cantor then this set will be ideal for you. A wonderful collection I bought some time ago, and I am still working through it, one CD per evening. Today’s talents will be tomorrow’s legends. The OrganScore J.S. 3. Hänssler has now re-issued this set in a space-saving box at a "nice" price, or 299. Find release reviews and credits for J.S. I had purchased some individual CDs from the set several years ago, (the individual CDs were £16 or around full price) but when this offer came out to purchase the whole set at less than £1 per CD I snatched it! At first, Hänssler set out to fill out their Bach recordings, which were built around Helmuth Rilling's set of the sacred cantatas. I have some amazing Bach recordings, but there are none that top these! It is not permitted to sell this item on Discogs. 172 CDs - recorded under the direction of Professor Helmuth Rilling from 1975 to 2000! Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, … The second is an index by BWV number, which then points you to specific discs. I must admit it is difficult to see how Amazon can be making any profit on this - but I shall sit down now and enjoy the performances. Hille Perl and Michael Beringer play the sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord. This said, Rilling often uses a technique that I find a bit disturbing. The description of Bach: Complete Works If you love classical music - this app is definitely designed for you! Get it and forget everything else! The CDs have colour coding for the different types of works (cantatas, sacred music, organ, keyboard, instrumental), and each bears a large volume number and a title. One disc contains reconstructed violin concertos performed by Isabelle Faust. in one of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach). Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2020. Final Years. Title: J.S. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! The Bachakademie-Edition, Stuttgart together with Hanssler published this set of complete recordings of JS Bach in the year 2000 (250 years after his life). I expect a lifetime of pleasure from this music. After downloading, uncompress the file(s) and import the folder of audio files into iTunes or a similar application. # of CDs [Details in Notes]): MM 4001-2 to MM 4171-2. If the complete collection does not outclass those, it always provides worthy performances. It's worth noting that, in some cases, re-takes were made months after initial recordings of some movements of the cantatas, and the sound can vary from one part of a cantata to another. Finally, there is a CD-ROM with complete texts of the vocal music, extensive notes and detailed track and artist information. Each CD is in a paper and glassine sleeve, and is well labelled. The large format radically changes the way organists will approach these works. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Condition: New. Works Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV694 'Wo soll ich fliehen hin' Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV736 'Valet will ich dir geben' Bach, J S: Fantasia & Fugue in A minor, BWV944 This is time-consuming and expensive. It is comprehensive, generally uses modern instruments and is well recorded. The sound is good. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. For myself, I have been waiting an awefully long time to get this set at a reasonable price. The New Bach Edition is an Urtext edition offering the world of scholarship a reliable musical text which is equally useful in performance. Includes a selection of harpsichord works, laid out on three staves when relevant (preludes and fugues, concertos, variations, ricercari from the Musical Offering, etc.). It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Or you could buy a complete set of Bach's music, offering you the ability to sample all of this great composer's works, then, if you find affinities with specific works and want to seek out other versions, do so. They contain the full notes that you would expect to receive with CDs, in German, English, French and Spanish, and total some 5,000 CD-sized pages. CPE Bach: Complete Works for Piano Solo (Ana-Marija Markovina) - Hanssler Classics - 26 CDs Condition is "Like New". After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Johann Sebastian Bach’s stature as a composer of extraordinary talent and widespread influence is so firmly established in Western culture that it is difficult to believe that only 150 years ago his works lay in veritable obscurity, unknown to all but a small group of scholars. Listeners know Rilling mostly for his superb renditions of the choral repertory, but will find that the instrumental recordings on offer here are are very good and in some cases equal to the choral works. Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2018. Bach on Brilliant Classics is back! The price is so wonderful. The complete work was not performed during his lifetime. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2018. Even connosieurs of Bach will find little played gems in this set--there are three CDs alone of early Bach keyboard works which I'd never heard but are fascinating to listen to. Johann Sebastian Bach ‎– The Complete Works (Edition Bachakademie) Label: Master Music (6) ‎– MM4000-2, B.M.S., Bohemian Music Service Ltd. ‎– MM4000-2 While they might not match these others, they are more than competent--I also like that the set includes Bach performed on multiple keyboard instruments (clavichord, harpsichord, modern piano, etc.) Discover the boxsets of Brilliant Classics. And that doesn’t really come across in this set. It is recorded on the following (non-Baroque) organs: Schwenkedel de la Collegiale de Saint-Donat, Drôme, Marcussen de l’église Saint-Nicolas de Kolding, Denmark, Metzler de la Basilique de Mariasten, Switzerland, Busch-Marcussen de la Chapelle du Château d’Augustenborg, Denmark. I've just received my box today and am working my way through the keyboard works; as other reviewers have noted, I myself was a bit dubious about the seeming lack of star quality--I had never heard of Robert Hill, Peter Watchhorn and others and scoffed at the idea that they would hold a candle to the Bach specialists I have in my collection (Goode, Gould and Schiff, among others). He'll have one instrument or group of instruments sequestered to one track, and others on the other track, giving a sound similar to that of early Beatles' stereo mixes, where vocals were on one track and instruments on the other. No matter what, at about $1.50, £1 or 1.30 a disc, if you care about Bach enough to want this much music, you owe it to yourself to get this set. # of cases [Details in Notes]): MM4172-2 to MM4214-2, Other (Cat. If you have a lot of Bach and want more, then the answer is obvious. OK I have listed to about 20 cds across the set. But do you really need all this music? 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