Bach Concertos
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Free Music Review: Great CD!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have listened to lots of classical music cd's over my time period, and this has to be the best one yet!! Hilary Hann does a great job in this CD. I atleast listen to this cd 4 times a day. If you get this CD, you will become addicted to it!!Free Music Review: One of the best contemporary violinists plays bach
Hit: 5 Stars
Bach played by Hilary Hahn is indeed one of the finest interpretations of a great composer. Her sound transmits music maturity. This is a good choice if you enjoy Bach and graceful interpretation.Free Music Review: PRODIGIOUS
Hit: 5 Stars
This girl is a prodigious, great performance, I bought it for my baby when I was pregnant, and he still listens to it (And me too).Free Music Review: Hillary Hahn's Bach
Hit: 4 Stars
HH writes in her insightful notes that the concerti were written for small forces and they, like the Brandenburgs or Orchestral Suites, are chamber music. This is the way she and the ASMF play them. The result is total clarity of musical line and HH playing the solo parts not louder or in front of the chamber orchestra but within it, as you hear a concertmaster play a solo. I know of no other recording that integrates the soloist into the ensemble as well as this one.
HH knows and loves Bach. She has been playing his music since she was a child and often plays movements from his solo violin sonatas and partitas as encores. She plays Bach with total commitment and a deep love. Finally, she writes that she chooses tempi that are lively and dance-like. She generates excitement in the outer movements and in the slow movements, on the other hand, conveys the deepest emotion. She brings out the darkness and inner struggle that Bach expresses in these movements. The final movements are appropriately played wonderfully fast so to contrast and overcome the darkness: they are all light and joy.
The tempi she chooses are not too fast - they are the norm of the modern performer. Compare her performances to Manze or Kuikjien and La Petite Band. True she doesn't use 'authentic' instruments or play in a self-consciously HIP fashion - but, she achieves the aims of the HIP movement by other means.
Music lovers will want several or many recordings of these works - and HH's deserves a place in anybody's collection.
Free Music Review: an old guy's 2cents
Hit: 4 Stars
Hilary Hahn comes not only as genius, she's a kind of scholar of the violin; precocious and impeccably able. The sound of her fiddle is indeed something worth pursuing. The instrument she uses here is made by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris 1864. Sumptuous sound, and a performance choice made with characteristic elan. I agree with the reviewers who've noted well the atmospherics of this violin. That said, the Bach is fast and scarcely shapely. It's interesting to me that while Hahn is young enough to dare to drive the dance out of Bach, she remains at the same time abundantly musical in all things but tempi. That draws me up short, enough so I'm willing to cede her a true praise and respect even for a recording this unnecessarily tempermental. The protean energy of Bach lies deep within the comely shape of his music; artifice of tempo can neither disguise that forming energy nor supplant it. I long for Hahn to completely find this inner truth of music. But - I'm 57 and if I know music well, perhaps too well sometimes. It's enough to hear wondrous playing like this even in the face of perhaps some musical diminishment, and I say only perhaps. Hahn brings a quite sophisticated joy to music making, and youth and courage, and not a little scholarship - it's a marvel. What's to criticize? I'll listen many times to this Bach, and pray the inordinate sheen never wears away. An extra star for that incredible Vuillaume brings it to 4stars!