Brecon Baroque Archive
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – Rachel Podger / Brecon Baroque—Channel Classics
Vivaldi: Le quattro stagione, concerti, Il grosso mogul, Il riposo, L’Amoroso. Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque—Channel Classics CCS SA 40318—76:00 [Distr. by Pias] ****: I’ve been following the historically-informed performance movement for most of my life, coming to collect recordings by Hogwood and Pinnock in the late 1980s as a teen. Rachel Podger came on the […]
*VIVALDI: l’Estro Armonico – 12 Concertos for Violins and String Orch. – Brecon Baroque/Rachel Podger, v. & director – Channel Classics ( 2 discs)
************ MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH ************
Rachel Podger and company bring technical brilliance and virtuosity in spades to these much-played concertos.
BACH: Double and Triple Concertos = Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor; Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute and Violin in A Minor; Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C Minor; Concerto for Three Violins in D Major – Rachel Podger, v./ Brecon Baroque Ens. – Channel Classics
High technology meets high art in these superb performances on SACD.
J.S. BACH: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041; Violin Concerto in E Major BWV 1042; Concerto in G minor after BWV 1056; Violin Concerto in A Major after BWV 1055 – Rachel Podger, violin & director of Brecon Baroque /Bojan Cicic, violin/ Johannes Pramsohl
The violin tone – both of Podger and the rest of her Brecon Baroque – is rich and silky-smooth.
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