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HAYNES, B.: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 7-12 (after J.S. Bach) (Milnes)

Composer(s):Haynes, Bruce
Artist(s) Milnes, Eric, Conductor • Montreal Baroque Band
Genre Classical Music
Category Concertos
Catalogue ACD22565
Label ATMA Classique
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 9.99
 

 

   



Almost Brandenburgs
Review By JD88992,August 2012

The late Bruce Haynes based this project on the fact that Bach often recycled his own compositions into other forms. Imagining a whole series of concertos, lost to modern musicians, which were then used as material for the cantatas, he retrofits some of those movements into "new" Brandenburg concerti.

The scoring mimics, but does not exactly duplicate, that of the originals (the third of each set, for example, is just for strings). Does it work? Yes and no. There is a real difference between the way Bach wrote for accompanied voices and for instruments alone--and that doesn't come across here. The results sound more like leftover movements from the suites. But that's a quibble: the pieces are fine, and are well-played by Montreal Baroque (though I can't warm to all the more....



Review By WETA,September 2012

This new release on the ATMA Classiques label is a performance by Montréal Baroque of a project by the late American oboist and musicologist Bruce Haynes. In his words, “…these concertos are not meant as serious reconstructions, merely as speculative trials to demonstrate the possibilities for instrumental treatment of Bach’s rich fund of musical inventions contained in the cantatas and other vocal works.” When Haynes conceived these sequels, he chose six cantatas and transcribed vocal lines for the same instrument groups Bach used in the original Brandenburg Concertos. In May 2011, having orchestrated three of them, Haynes died unexpectedly during a surgical procedure. His widow, cellist Susie Napper, finished the project, and was the artistic

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Review By Christophe Huss, ClassicsTodayFrance.com,September 2012

La chose peut faire hurler ou plutôt amuser. En tous cas, il s’agit d’un jeu d’esprit d’un érudit et non d’une usurpation pour faire des gros sous.

Bruce Haynes était un hautboïste musicologue, mari, à la ville, de Susie Napper, professeur et gambiste des Voix humaines. Sa connaissance de Bach était encyclopédique. Haynes est parti du principe que Bach puisa certains mouvements de cantates dans des concertos et que maints concertos étant perdus, on pourrait s’amuser à en «reconstituer» ou recréer, en allant chercher dans le corpus des cantates les mouvements qui semblent les plus concertants. Il est dommage qu’il n’ait pu voir le fruit de

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Review By WQXR (New York),May 2012

The Bande Montréal Baroque presents all six [Brandenburg] concertos, each with a different configuration. The concertos are numbered seven to 12 and are structurally modeled after the six originals. Horn, trumpet, oboe and recorders all make appearances. The first features prominent solo trumpet lines. The bouncy third, for strings, omits the middle movement just as the original does.

The most interesting of the batch may be Concerto No. 11 for oboe, harpsichord, strings and bass continuo, which features lively virtuosic turns for oboist Matthew Jennejohn and harpsichordist Erin Helyard.

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