SACD, Bach, J S (composer)

Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Not surprisingly, [the performances] are much in the same vein as in Vol. 1, which is to say bright and buoyant, with no tricks or surprises but plenty of energy and brilliance. Bonizzoni’s... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

Some purists may take exception to Dausgaard’s tempos or dynamics here and there, but the Bach performances, for the most part, are crisp, lively and expressive, and the BIS recording vivid,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Leonard Slatkin and the BBC Symphony Orchestra relish the considerable technical challenges posed by these transcriptions… those who enjoy their Bach as a full meat-and-two-veg course will... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Johann Sebastian Bach… wrote Cantata 82, Ich habe genug, in 1727… Florilegium play it with touching gentleness, a filigree of one-to-a-part strings, Ashley Solomon's soft-toned baroque flute,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…