Concertos Italiens: Alexandre Tharaud Joue Bach
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Free Music Notes for Concertos Italiens: Alexandre Tharaud Joue Bach
Free Music Review: Fresh take on Bach, but flawed recording
Hit: 4 Stars
First off, the music on here is great. Tharaud brings an unusually gentle, almost romantic touch to Bach and the disc is one of those that, as other reviewers have noted, you'll find yourself playing over and over.
The recording, however, has a problem with it. I downloaded this disc through Amazon MP3, so I am unsure if the problem exists on the CD, but in my copy there is a strange audio artifact in every space of silence between notes that sounds like a muffled pop (sorry, that's a the best way I can describe it). I only notice it when listening on quality headphones at relatively high volumes, but it's there and quite distracting. On speakers, especially at low volumes, it's less noticeable. Anyone else have this problem?
Free Music Review: A must if you life your Bach on a piano
Hit: 5 Stars
This cd, along with the great Wilhelm Kempf's, is my favorite recording of Bach-transcriptions. Tharaud's playing is full of nuance, precision, and spirit. Also, Harmonia Mundi has provided a truly life-like recording. This cd deserves all the praise it has received on both sides the Atlantic. Free Music Review: Little Known Transcriptions, Perfectly Performed
Hit: 5 Stars
It is easy to forget that Bach had competition as a Baroque composer (or, indeed, that he wasn't even as famous as this competition in his own time). And so, this disc comes as a pleasant surprise. To hear his own transcriptions of music by Vivaldi (as well as Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello) reveals the contemporary influences on Bach's music. After all, this was how Bach learned to compose - by studying and transcribing the music of his predecessors.
And then he would transcend them. The comparison of Bach to his contemporaries is illustrative not only of Bach's mastery of the keyboard - his ability to capture the full essence of their concerti with just the unaccompanied piano - but also of his progression into the master of the Baroque. The Italian Concerto is clearly the major work on this disc, and this performance is remarkably full of life
Tharaud captures nearly the contrapuntal clarity of Perahia (who is unmatched in this regard), but plays with greater speed and excitement. This may be the best recording of Bach's concerto on disc.
The other, lesser works are also realized with technical perfection and unobjectionable music taste. The sound, of demonstration quality, fully meets the high expectations of the Harmonia Mundi label. This disc may be pricey (though, if you've the technology, the Amazon-mp3 album is a steal at mid-price), but it is simply beyond reproach in any regard.
5/5
Free Music Review: no me arrepiento
Hit: 5 Stars
Adquir? este disco motivada principalmente por los comentarios en Amazon. No me arrepiento ya que me ha proporcionado muchas horas de placer. Aunque ligeramente amanerada, la interpretaci?n de Tharaud es precisa y deliciosa, pudiendo conducir a variados estados de ?nimo: meditaci?n, exaltaci?n, enso?aci?n.
Las piezas en s? son hermosas y la grabaci?n es muy buena. ?Qu? m?s se requiere para otorgar cinco estrellas?
Free Music Review: Beautiful music that would have made Papa Bach proud!
Hit: 5 Stars
Some works come along that so speak to us that we play them over and over, never tiring of them. This is such a work. Anyone expecting pure authentic period Bach should look elsewhere. But if you're open the the charms of Johan Sebastian with the grace and lilt of the modern piano and the virtuosity of a great artist, you're in for a treat. To say this music is beautiful is an understatement.
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