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GordonH · 01-29-2007, 05:18 AM

This follow in from the thread about the Haydn.

Generally speaking , earlier recordings of all the Bach repertoir tends to be slower than now. If you listen to the Karl Munchinger recordings from the 50's all of the Brandenburgs seem very slow and stodgy compared to the way we do them now. This is probably due to the rediscovery of original instruments helping us to understand ho these pieces would have sounded originally.

So what speed is the right speed?

Also, the hot potato, is it a trumpet part?
I would always have said yes until I heard a CD of it with the trumpet part played down an octave. I always assumed it was because the trumpet player in question couldn't play it up the octave, but I have since found out that he can and he has recorded it twice up the octave with other orchestras on other record lables so it must have been a conductors choice.

It actually sounded fine down the octave (he was playing on a rotary so it was quite lyrical).

01-29-2007, 05:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
GordonH Mezzo Piano User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Scotland Posts: 600	Brandenburg Concerto no 2 This follow in from the thread about the Haydn. Generally speaking , earlier recordings of all the Bach repertoir tends to be slower than now. If you listen to the Karl Munchinger recordings from the 50's all of the Brandenburgs seem very slow and stodgy compared to the way we do them now. This is probably due to the rediscovery of original instruments helping us to understand ho these pieces would have sounded originally. So what speed is the right speed? Also, the hot potato, is it a trumpet part? I would always have said yes until I heard a CD of it with the trumpet part played down an octave. I always assumed it was because the trumpet player in question couldn't play it up the octave, but I have since found out that he can and he has recorded it twice up the octave with other orchestras on other record lables so it must have been a conductors choice. It actually sounded fine down the octave (he was playing on a rotary so it was quite lyrical). __________________ "O trumpeter, methinks I am myself the instrument thou playest, Thou melt'st my heart, my brain--thou movest, drawest, changest them at will;" (Walt Whitman)