The cantatas in this project (same performances) are currently re-released at considerable speed at mid-price, ordered by BWV number.Īpart from the music, the set is sloppy. You must be referring to the set before the 'Complete Bach' project by Hänssler Verlag. About them in another message since I've already got carried away. I'm looking forward Rilling completing the secular cantatas series. And while is true that earlier issues did not name the soloists and not even the volume number, later prints do offer this information even on separate CD's. Speaking of availability, Rilling's cantatas are available separately in France, Germany - one can try but they only deliver in the European Community - and possible other parts of Europe, and of course in the U.S. I'm also collecting every modern-instruments performances of cantatas that I can so far I have discs conducted by Fritz Werner, Kurt Redel, Kurt Thomas, Karl Ristenpart, Helmut Winschermann, Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, and I am looking forward the re-issue of Günther Ramin's cantata recordings already available in Germany. I'm generally not a big fan of period-instruments performances, yet I'm starting to collect the Koopman set as well, the reason being the appendixes that offer alternate versions of cantata movements. And I would also like to add a word for the outstanding chorus, Gächinger Kantorei. His soloists, as terry mentions, are almost never worse than reliable and the contributions of Augér, Watkinson, Equiluz, Nimsgern, and sometimes Schreier are outstanding. Basically Rilling is becoming leaner over the years and the speeds are faster in the later releases. It allows us to see how Rilling's approach to Bach has changed from the first recordings in the late sixties to the last ones in the mid eighties. It is overall a remarkable achievement though sometimes uneven.

I too have collected the Rilling series and I basically agree with Terry's remarks about the set. I am especially interested in Bach's vocal music although I'm not neglecting the rest of his output either. To quote George Enescu, my country's greatest musician, 'Bach is my daily bread' - not the most inspired translation but one that makes the point nonetheless. So my name is George Murnu, I was born in Romania but now live in a suburb of Washington D.C. Since this is my first message as a member of the group - although I have exchange e-mails with some of you in private and I have always read the threads - I think I should introduce myself.

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