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Reviewer: William
J. Gatens
This completes Bernhard
Forck’s recording of Handel’s Opus 6 concertos. The first six were reviewed
by John Barker (Pentatone 5186737; N/D 2019)—one of his last reviews for ARG. The 12 concertos were published in 1740 for strings and continuo. There is evidence that some of them may have been performed with a pair of oboes and a bassoon reinforcing the string parts but adding no new material. Mr Barker observes that concertos 1, 2, 5, and 6 are performed with winds in the earlier release. There are no winds here. I was impressed by the animation and incisiveness of these performances. Forck, by the way, is identified as concertmaster, not conductor, so I assume that he is playing the violin solos here. Mr Barker found his violin tone too piercing, but I cannot say that I found it disagreeable in the context of these period instrument performan-ces. Readers of my reviews will know that I often complain that many recordings, especially of early music, seem to have been recorded almost suffocatingly close. I do not find that the case with the string tone here, though oddly enough, the intense breathing of the players is distinctly audible. That is not a sound I particularly want to hear as part of a musical performance, but it is a small price to pay for such fine playing.
There are, of course, many recordings of the Handel concertos, and Mr Barker, drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the recorded repertory, mentions several of them in his review. (He will be sorely missed.)
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