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At the loudest moments, there is some unpleasant distortion in the middle and upper voices. This SACD doesn't sound any better than a good quality RBCD. ON MY WORD Here we have one of a pair (so far) of CDs featuring the famous, if not infamous, transcriptions by Leopold Stokowski of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, played by the BBC Philharmonic with great panache, recorded in the latest sparkling digital stereo sound by Chandos, and conducted, as if his life depended on it, by Matthias Bamert. The recording lacks separation and transparency. Sonically, it is over-reverberent and too distant for my liking. From a musical perspective, the finest arrangement IMO is Sheep May Safely Graze by Barbirolli. Another standout is the Air on the G String by Sir Malcolm Sargent, again not straying far from the original. The arrangement is for strings only and is tender, warm, and satisfying. On the other hand, Eugene Ormandy pulls no punches in this premiere recording of his Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. all very fun and to good effect, but the piece sounds like a collection of disjointed episodes as a result. Skrowaczewski throws in lots of percussion, xylophones, dramatic pauses, and drawn out decrescendos. I find Stokowski's arrangement to be more musically coherent and less indulgent. Those familiar with Leopold Stokowski's benchmark version will enjoy comparing the two. The ubiquitous Toccata & Fugue in D minor (BWV 565) is transcribed here by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Since each track is arranged by a different conductor-musician, each one has its own flavor, and some are better than others. Many of our favorite Bach classics are given the Hollywood treatment, turned into big orchestral showstoppers. Review by darkroommd Febru(4 of 5 found this review helpful)Īs others have posted, this is a fun disc to hear. I prefer a cleaner, more analytical sound, but it is not terrible. The sound is typical for Chandos-slightly distant and over reverberent, at least for my taste-you are in the balcony at a hall with a longer than normal decay time. the performances seem exemplary-hard to tell when many of these are premiere recordings. No Bach-Stokowski-apparently either Slatkin or Chandos felt there are already many recorded examples. It may come as a surprise that Bach composed SIX orchestral suites-of course, two of them are by Sir Henry Wood, and the Sixth is on this SACD. The Skrowasczewski transcription of the Toccata and Fugue in d-minor and the Mitropoulos version of the Fantasia and Fugue in g minor are the most obviously original items-the former feels to me to be in the same league as the Ravel transcription of 'Picture at an Exhibition'. Johann Sebastian will survive transcription, and recomposition of classic works is at least as old as Mozart's version of Handel's Messiah. 'Bach transcriptions? Horrors! Inauthentic! Keeps us from knowing the real Bach!' Blah, blah, blah.

In my dogmatic youth I would have considered this disc to be an abomination.

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