Radek Baborak, Ales Barta – Baborak plays JS Bach (2005)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 68:26 minutes | Scans NOT included | 3,46 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans NOT included | 1,66 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Scans NOT included | 1,38 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Cryston / Octavia Japan # OVCC-00018
Radek Baborák is a Czech conductor and one of the greatest living players of horn. This album contains chorales and arias from church cantatas and violin sonatas that Baborák usually loves at recitals, and it really blows a variety of J.S. Bach. The co-star with strong support is Aleš Bárta, a leading Czech organist. The rich beauty of Baborák and the sound of the pipe organ played by Bárta are wrapped in the sound of Dvorak Hall, creating a sacred space.
The violin sonatas have a perfect pitch, composition and technique, while the chorales and arias have a drunken Baborák sound. Not only Baborák fans, horn fans, Bach fans, but also a wide range of fans can enjoy it as a collection of chorales that is ideal for the Christmas season.
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Radek Baborák & Berliner Barock Solisten – J.S. Bach: Horn Concertos (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:54 minutes | 560 MB | Genre: Classical
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Johann Sebastian Bach never composed a concerto or solo piece for the Waldhorn. Here and there, it is true, he wrote some wonderful passages for the valveless horn of his day – in the Brandenburg Concerto no.1, the Mass in B minor and just a few of his cantatas. For my part, I was keen to get closer still to his musical cosmos. Some 20 years ago, I began to play his cello suites on the horn and I handled them very carefully. It was the first hurdle to clear and my first encounter as a hornist with the great master.
“You can approach Bach in many different ways”- horn concertos with Radek Baborak: Imagine the following scene: A music-loving Venetian merchant visits Leipzig on business in the 1730s. Once the deal is done, his business contacts in the city invite him to a concert in Zimmermann’s Coffee House, where Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian regularly performs with his Collegium musicum. The evening’s programme includes a Concerto for four harpsichords and strings with Bach himself, probably his grown-up sons and maybe one of his pupils on the solo instruments. When the work begins, the visitor from Venice is taken by surprise. This is music he knows from his native city, albeit as a Concerto for four violins and strings from the cycle L’estro armonico by his countryman Antonio Vivaldi. Bach has arranged the concerto and much else out of admiration for the Venetian maestro.
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