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Channel Classics
CCSSA34113
Reviewer: Duncan Druce
The Channel Classics issue follows a disc of Bach
solo concertos from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque issued in 2010. This
programme of double and triple concertos similarly features a one-to-a-part
ensemble of players (several of them Podger’s former pupils) who share a common
approach yet project their parts with individual character. As a result, Bach’s
contrapuntal lines emerge with unusual clarity, animating each detail of the
texture. There’s little feeling of an imposed interpretation: even when, at the
interrupted cadences in the first movement of BWV1060, the whole ensemble allows
time to take a breath, the effect appears spontaneous and unstudied. The outer
movements of the well-known Double Concerto are vivacious and poised, and its
central Largo
combines tranquillity with an unimpeded momentum. As for BWV1064 (assumed to
have been composed as a triple violin concerto), the verve and clarity of this
account allow us to revel in its joyful textural complexity. The same qualities
animate the other two concertos: BWV1060 features particularly expressive oboe
lines from Alexandra Bellamy, while BWV1044 brings Marcin Swiatkiewicz’s
brilliant playing into focus.
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