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Its rocks

02/26/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Brandenburg Concerto #6 is the last piece on here, and it is Wonderful!. The performance is infectious and you'll find your toes tapping or head bobbing to it in the first and third movements. This arrangement brings out the tight canonic writing in the first movement, and the composition is clearer here than it is on the usual violas. (That's just the way viola tone is: lush and warm at the expense of totally crisp rhythm.) The second movement has the best-played slow music on the disc, loose and fresh. It's clear that they're _listening_ through their melodic lines here and letting them sing, while in the suites and concerto they seemed more concerned with just staying together cleanly. (This movement shows that Raskin and Milani can play slow music well; Not much needs to be said about the third movement beyond "it rocks." And there's always something special about hearing harpsichords play low in their range, as here. It reminds me of
French harpsichord music, richly sonorous. As I said above, buy this disc for the Brandenburg concerto and the rest is a bonus.
Wonderful!"

Exciting

01/28/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Transcriptions of Bach works are in fashion: It almost seems that this jubilee-year brings us more transcriptions than original-works!. The election of the orchestra-works into a Recital for two harpsichords could suddenly startle. In contrast to that, which they could expect, the result doesn't participate however so reduces, above all because one had over two wonderful harpsichords with a melodious and spreads timbre. The transcription, that two musicians share, participates been executed itself to accentuate the thematic material with the intent, dialogue and instrumentation-variations skillful. .....Raskin and Milanis have a rhythmic fiber and characterize each dance on remarkable type: very quickly, but plausible Menuets and Gavottes, springy Courante and Forlane, energetic Bourrées and fashionable Passepied. This splendidly to the swings brought overtures the suites lead with the necessary ?Grandeur "that participates in h-moll exciting!). Paradoxically the only original-work of the CD participates the concert BWV1061 where the orchestrale dimension approaches the most strongly. One will admire the clarity of the joint, that takes place in the last sentence. Finally we find that the Brandenburg concert conforms No. 6 at the two harpsichords especially well so that the cast returns the dark sounds of the original-orchestration. Raskins and Milanis luxuriant, dynamic and dance-like game marks the whirling finale of this concert and does it to a symbolic conclusion for a protruding CD. Not only cembalo - lovers, to recommend!"