Rating: 5/5
Review:
Fantastic
This is a simply fantastic box of great music. Frans Brüggen stopped making solo recordings
over 30 years ago and many of these discs date back to the early 1960s, but
they still sound great for the most part.
Brüggen was a real pioneer of the recorder and a great musician. His sound is a little less sharply defined
and crisp that some later virtuosi like Michala Petri or Pamela Thorby, for
example, but it's still a real pleasure to listen to, and his interpretations
remain fresh and insightful. (There are a
few exceptions for me, notably the Bach and some of the Handel recordings here
which do seem a little stodgy in comparison to some more recent
interpretations.)
Frans Brüggen is now best known as a distinguished conductor
of 18th Century music, but this box is a reminder of what a very,
very fine player he was, too. I have
given a contents summary of the 12 discs below.
The recorded sound and digital transfers are good and this is a treasure
trove of lovely music and great playing.
Very warmly recommended.
CD 1: Telemann - Recorder sonatas and fantasias
CD 2: Italian Recorder sonatas: Francesco Barsanti, Diogenio Bigaglia, Nicolas Chédeville, Archangelo Corelli, Benedetto Marcello, and Francesco Veracini
CD 3: English recorder ensemble music - William Babell, William Byrd, Robert Carr, Anthony Holborne, George Jeffreys, Thomas Morley, Andrew Parcham, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Henry Purcell, Thomas Simpson, John Taverner, and Christopher Tye
CD 4: Early Baroque Recorder Music - Giovanni Paolo Cima, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Battista Riccio, Samuel Scheidt, and Jacob van Eyck;
CD 5: Late Baroque Chamber Music - Johann Friedrich Fasch, Jean Baptiste Loeillet, Johann Mattheson, Johann Joachim Quantz, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Telemann;
CD 6: French recorder suites - Charles Dieupart and Hotteterre;
CD 7: French Recorder sonatas - François Couperin, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Philibert de Lavigne, Louis-Antoine Dornel, and Anne Danican Philidor
CD 8: Vivaldi - Chamber concertos
CD 9: Handel - Recorder sonatas
CD 10: Telemann - Concertos and overtures
CD 11: Bach - Concertos and sonatas
CD 12: Recorder concertos and sonatas - Jacques-Christophe Naudot, Giuseppe Sammartini, Handel, Loeillet, and Telemann.
CD 2: Italian Recorder sonatas: Francesco Barsanti, Diogenio Bigaglia, Nicolas Chédeville, Archangelo Corelli, Benedetto Marcello, and Francesco Veracini
CD 3: English recorder ensemble music - William Babell, William Byrd, Robert Carr, Anthony Holborne, George Jeffreys, Thomas Morley, Andrew Parcham, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Henry Purcell, Thomas Simpson, John Taverner, and Christopher Tye
CD 4: Early Baroque Recorder Music - Giovanni Paolo Cima, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Battista Riccio, Samuel Scheidt, and Jacob van Eyck;
CD 5: Late Baroque Chamber Music - Johann Friedrich Fasch, Jean Baptiste Loeillet, Johann Mattheson, Johann Joachim Quantz, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Telemann;
CD 6: French recorder suites - Charles Dieupart and Hotteterre;
CD 7: French Recorder sonatas - François Couperin, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Philibert de Lavigne, Louis-Antoine Dornel, and Anne Danican Philidor
CD 8: Vivaldi - Chamber concertos
CD 9: Handel - Recorder sonatas
CD 10: Telemann - Concertos and overtures
CD 11: Bach - Concertos and sonatas
CD 12: Recorder concertos and sonatas - Jacques-Christophe Naudot, Giuseppe Sammartini, Handel, Loeillet, and Telemann.
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