Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1-6

MARBECKS STAFF PICK - BEST RECORDINGS 2008

GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2008 - Baroque Instrumental

MusicWeb - Recording of the Year 2008

"Pinnock is an immaculate and intensely musical player…."
Robert Costin, Seen and Heard International

"Musicians savour each other's company in inspiring music: happy birthday! More than 25 years after his first recording of these works blazed a trail for period Brandenburgs, Trevor Pinnock has returned to them. It was a 60th birthday present to himself - and one he should be very pleased with. As befits a celebration, this is a generally relaxed and joyful experience. The playing, with an ensemble that brings together some of the world's leading Baroque specialists, is supreme."
Gramophone Magazine - Editor's Choice - March 2008

"From the bracing instrumental melange of teh First Concerto, with its nicely pungent Adagio, Pinnock is aiming at the celebratory as much as the cerebral"
(william Dart NZ Herald April 2008)

"(Pinnock) adds yet another very fine recording to the many fine recordings available, a quarter century after his recording with the English Consort on Archiv came out. Anyone who especially likes the performances and interpretations of Trevor Pinnock will find this recording to be a delight and probably a distinct improvement over its predecessor."
(MusicWeb Jan 2008)

"Pinnock has, without a doubt, assembled an astonishingly talented group of performers for this impressive project…"
Edward Lewis, The Classical Source

'It's a revelation to find the allegros played with such brio, to hear the wind voicing in the second and forth concertos so subtly balanced and articulated, to sense Bach's daring instead of his order and discipline. This is now my first-choice recording of the Brandenburgs.' ***** Andrew Clark, FT

'It's a stunning recording and the ultimate vindication of Pinnock's interests'
**** Daily Express

'He [Pinnock] has long been a master of these works, but the miracle of these new accounts is that they sound completely fresh. Pinnock's approach is as vigorous as ever, yet there's no sense of the frenetic. His hand-picked players relish the life-affirming exuberance, the daring cut and thrust, the bold colouring and the lyrical beauties of this perennially wonderful music, in breathtaking, alchemic celebration.'
**** Sunday Times

'…Trevor Pinnock has culled the crème de la crème of period-instrument orchestras to form the European Brandenburg Ensemble - to play Bach his way, with himself on Harpsichord….this riveting reading revels in what Pinnock calls Bach's 'sense of disorder' and the 'subversive' nature of his music.' Anthony Holden, The Observer