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Bach: Violin Concertos | 
| Creators: JS Bach, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Julia Fischer
Label: Decca
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 3939
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 028947806509
EAN: 0028947806509
Release Date: January 27, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | Vivace | | • | Largo ma non tanto | | • | Allegro | | • | Allegro moderato | | • | Andante | | • | Allegro assai | | • | Allegro | | • | Adagio | | • | Allegro assai | | • | Allegro | | • | Adagio | | • | Allegro |
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Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 27-JAN-2009
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 11
Brilliant, instantly fell in love June 24, 2010
DAG
After hearing this album on Rhapsody I am purchasing the CD for myself and will consider this for gifts in the future.
This album is absolutely brilliant and lively... I couldn't get through the the whole thing on Rhapsody before I was scrambling to buy the CD!
Simply wonderful! June 11, 2010
steve (sunnyvale, CA USA)
Of course I'm quite familiar with the Bach violin concertos, but I never had heard them played by Ms. Fischer. I started listening to this album late last night, with the full intention of listening to a couple of tracks and then going to sleep. I'm happy to say that Ms Fischer and the ASM kept me up very late... Like all great artists, Ms Fischer takes us into her world when she plays, and lets us hear the composer as she hears him. I kept getting an impression of simplicity and clarity from her playing, which is of course a tribute to her artistry. This is no period performance; it is simply a supremely talented young woman who loves Bach, playing Bach the best way she knows how. ASM is superb as usual, but this is clearly Ms Fischer's show.
Some people seem to have a hard time forgiving Julia Fischer for being young and beautiful, but I, for one, celebrate this lovely goddess of the violin.
I look forward to whatever she chooses to do next.
Comment 11 days later:
After a couple of weeks of listening, I continue to be impressed with this lovely album. Continued listening has led me to appreciate the supporting cast even more than I did in my first impression. What a marvelous age we live in where technology lets us enjoy beauty like this whenever the whim strikes us :)
music October 23, 2009
Gordon Dietz (Westminster, MD USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Like this. Good music. Good interpretations of Bach. Good for listening and worth listening to over again.
Hi, Julia! September 20, 2009
Kelly Fotini
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
These are the excerpts from recent concert reviews on February 12, 2009
"She is a formal, severe artist, evidently uneasy with being marketed as yet another fetching young violinist."
"Fischer's sense of purpose, which can be felt in every note she plays, obviously overrules any sense of humor when it comes to the great masters. That may be what has most helped this German violinist stand out from her flashy competition."
"Bach that lacked a sense of freedom, spontaneity or, heaven forbid, fun. I've found this lack also in Fischer's tightly wound recordings of standard repertory, which are admirable but bland."
This is the result (actually Insults) artists are going to get sometimes, when they tried to make everybody Happy. Obviously, it is not possible.
ASMF has been very popular, influential but mediocre at its core, I think. Has she become a poster child of that OC?
I do not know how the EU music business is commissioning their artists.
Also it may not be a smart move to increase repertoires when you still did not cover enough of a composer; especially a performer has plenty of years ahead. Complacency can come to you unknowingly and unconsciously.
One cannot afford ignoring Dutch establishments these days. (Don't let that girl pass you by.) Julia still does not have enough energy and tone to cover demanding repertoire.
Nice performance August 17, 2009
Teemacs (Switzerland)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Julia Fischer strikes me as the new Anne-Sophie Mutter, and my previous favourite version of these 3 gorgeous concerti was the Mutter one with Salvatore Accardo and the ECO, recorded when Frl. Mutter was about three-and-a-half. So, I played them one against the other - and I'm torn. Both ladies play with precision and flair and joy, and are absolutely ear-ravishing, and in the end, to me there is overall nothing to choose between them. Neither uses a baroque violin, but this is music for the ages, not to be straitjacketed with period performance considerations.
However, the thing that for me makes the big difference is the recording quality. This version has a nice, crisp recording, whereas the ECO in the Mutter version (now pretty ancient admittedly) sounds congested, as if all the fiddlers were forced to stand and play in the corner for being naughty boys and girls.
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