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GREAT BACH BASICS – Johann Sebastian & Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – 12-DVD BOX

English Baroque Soloists | Monteverdi Choir | Claron McFadden soprano | Bernarda Fink alto | Christoph Genz tenor | Dietrich Henschel basso | Andrei Gavrilov piano | Joanna MacGregor piano | Nikolai Demidenko piano | Angela Hewitt piano | Bach Collegium Japan | Midori Suzuki soprano | Robin Blaze countertenor | Gerd Türk tenor | Chiyuki Urano bass-baritone | Stephan MacLeod bass | Deborah York soprano | Bogna Bartosz contralto | Jörg Dürmüller tenor | Klaus Mertens bass | Ex Tempore | La Petite Bande | Sophie Karthäuser soprano | Patrizia Hardt contralto | Stephan Genz bass | Christoph Einhorn tenor | Jan van der Crabben bass-baritone | Ruth Ziesak soprano | Anna Larsson contralto | Dietrich Henschel bass | Rias Kammerchor: Stephanie Petitlaurent soprano | Waltraud Heinrich alto | Susanne Langner alto | Volker Arndt tenor | Christian Mücke tenor | Johannes D. Schendel bass | András Schiff piano | Hallenser Madrigalisten | Andreas Göpfert | Christine Schäfer soprano | Ellen Schuring soprano | Anette Elster alto | Thomas Dewald tenor | Roman Trekel baritone | Raphael Alpermann organ
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Orchestra Mozart, Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, Kammerorchester C.P.E. Bach
Claudio Abbado, John Eliot Gardiner, Masaaki Suzuki, Ton Koopman, Sigiswald Kuijken, Herbert Blomstedt, Hartmut Haehnchen
DVD

World-class orchestras, conductors, vocalists and soloists – in excellent concert recordings from 1992 to 2008 in one box of 12 DVDs. The most important and most celebrated works of Johann Sebastian Bach and his most renowned son Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach.

"The beauty of Bach is the freedom he gives us!"
András Schiff on Johann Sebastian Bach

“We must play from the soul, not like trained birds.”
Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach

 

DVD 1 &2: J. S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio 

DVD 3  & 4: J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I&II 

DVD 5: J. S.Bach: St John Passion

DVD 6: Magnificat 

DVD 7: Ascension Oratorios

DVD 8: J. S. Bach: Mass in B minor

DVD 9: J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 

DVD 10: J. S. Bach: Motets and Sinfonias 

DVD 11: András Schiff plays Bach

DVD 12: C. P. E. Bach: Die letzten Leiden des Erlösers 
 

Repertoire

Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio; The Well-Tempered Clavier I & II; St John Passion; Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10; Magnificat in E-flat Major, BWV 243a; Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11; Mass in B minor, BWV 232; Brandenburg Concertos; Motets and Sinfonias; French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812; French Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813; French Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814; French Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 815; French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816; French Suite No. 6 in E Major, BWV 817; Overture in the French Style in B minor, BWV 831; Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971
Johann Kuhnau: Magnificat in C Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu, Wq 240; Die Letzten Leiden des Erlösers

Facts DVD

Item number
2053736
UPC number
880242537362
Region code
0
Picture format
NTSC 16:9 & 4:3
Sound format
PCM Stereo
Dolby Digital 5.1
dts 5.1
Release
Total running time
1251 mins
Details running time
1251 mins (DVD 1&2: 142 mins; DVD 3&4: 260 mins; DVD 5: 117min; DVD 6: 87 mins; DVD 7: 109 mins; DVD 8: 117 mins; DVD 9: 100 mins; DVD 10: 93 mins; DVD 11: 134 mins; DVD 12: 92 mins)
Subtitles
English, French, German
Booklet notes
English
No. of discs
12
Recording
1992,1994, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
Bonus
Jauchzet, Frohlocket! "J.E. Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage" (DVD 1); Bach Revisited "J.E. Gardiner in Saxony and Thuringia" (DVD 2)