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Style is difficult concept to pin down, but the group profile of the Alban Berg Quartet was already in place at the time of thse Teldec recordings. What marked ABQ out from all but the best rivals was the structural stength of its interpretations. This 8 CD box contains work by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak, Berg, Webern, Urbanner.

The music of the Second Viennese School has, of course, been the marrow of the Alban Berg Quartett's existence. This 3 CD box contains 20th century masterpieces performed by ABQ - Johann Strauss' Kaiser-Walzer, String Quartet by Alban Berg, Stravinsky's Concertina and Three Pieces for String Quartet, Piazzolla's Tango Sensations, Berio's Notturno, works by Bartok, Janacek, Lutoslawski a.o.

This CD contains Fantasies and Sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach performed by Andreas Staier on harpsichord and pianoforte. Bach presented himself to the public with 2 collections of Prussian and Wurttemberg sonatas. They demonstrate exemplary features -clear formal structures, unity of affection and thematic material in each movement. The variations on the theme Folie d'Espagne are experimental, perhaps the first example of a variations cycle with ironic distance to the theme.

The 6 Brandenburg Concertos are rightfully regarded as being the most popular orchestral works of the Baroque era. This CD contains the Concertos 1-3, as well as his orchestral suite No. 4. Bach wrote only 4 known orchestral suites, each of them is festive and fun, Bach injected a bit of Italian influence in each of them. Among the 4 suites, the 4th has some of the sweetest, loveliest qualities.

The majority of Bach's concertos for melody instruments were later reworked as harpsichord concertos after the composer moved to Leipzig. This 5 CD box contains 19 concertos for harpsichord, strings, violins, recorders, flute, oboe.

Bach's Musical Offering BWV 1079 is a collection of canons and fugues and other pieces of music, based on a single theme given to Bach by Frederick the Great. The Ricercar a 6 -harpsichord-, a 6-voice fugue is the highpoint of the work. Here is the 1979 recording by Reinhard Goebel and the Musica Antiqua Koln as well as the Bach Sonata No. 2 , BWV 1031 for Flute and Harpsichord and No. 3, BWV 1035 for Flute and Basso continuo recorded in 1983.

These attractive and colourful concertos are all transcriptions or reconstructions by Bach of original works by him for different instruments. This collection ... features 2 wind soloists with tone warmer and less abrasive than many using baroque instruments. The recorded sound is exceptionally vivid. -Penguin-

This CD contains Bach's harpsichord concertos BWV 1053, 1054, 1055, and 1058 as well as Concerto for 2 Harpsichords BWV 1060 perfromed in 1973 by Karl Richter and Hedwig Bilgram on harpsichord.

The recorder was an everyday instrument for Bach, featured in all of the principal genres of his oeuvre and used during virtually all of hiis creative periods. The present recording of 2011 by Erik Bosgraaf includes a number of transcriptions for recorder.
This CD contains Concerto in G major -Arias from Cantatas BWV 215 and 32 transcribed by Thiemo Wind, Concerto in B flat major BWV 1055, Concerto in D major BWV 1053, Concerto in D minor BWV 1059, and Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier.

This 10 CD-box contains Johann Sebastian Bach´s Brandenburg Concertos 1-6, Ouvertures, Cantaten, Motetten, Organ works, Chamber Music with a.o. Musical Offering, the Bach Trumpet featuring Ludwig Guttler.