#Bach #JSBach #Baroque #ClassicalMusic Note: I created this video from a cassette tape, and there is, unfortunately, some distortion in the audio, given the age of the tape and the number of times I played it (well over a thousand times I'd estimate). However, this recording is extremely rare and I thought that given its historical importance it would be worthwhile to make available. -------------------------------------------------------- In this legendary 1960 recording, German conductor Karl Ristenpart (1900-1967) leads the Chamber Orchestra of the Saar in a performance of the first movement of the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047. I created this music video from a Nonesuch cassette I purchased in the early 1980s. Ristenpart was working under contract for Saar radio, but because the region was under French administration in the years following the second world war, Ristenpart's performances of Bach's works originally were recorded by Club Français du Disque in Paris. This Nonesuch recording is in stereo; a CD version of these Brandenburgs was issued in 2000 on a French label in monaural (no explanation was provided for the discrepancy). All images you see in the video are from the cassette cover. Nonesuch was a budget label (albeit one with the most brilliant recordings) so all there are are the images you see -- no liner notes were included in the cassette. Also, the original plastic casing that held the tape cracked one day (I don't remember how it happened); to save the recording I had to remove the two spools of tape and transfer them into a generic cassette case held together with screws. That is why there is no image of the actual tape enclosure. Members of the Chamber Orchestra of the Saar (whom you hear in this recording) included Georg-Friedrich Hendel, Hans-Martin Linde, Gunter Hoeller, Jean-Pierre Rampal, and Robert Veyron-Lacroix (whose performances of baroque harpsichord works you can find in at least one of my playlists). A fairly good write-up of Ristenpart can be viewed on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ristenpart ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you enjoy Bach, I recommend the following: Karl Ristenpart: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048 - Chamber Orchestra of the Saar - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28p-Wt9PPjg Bach / Bronislav Gimpel, 1964: Sonata No. 3 in C major for Violin, BWV 1005 - Allegro assai - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khUaSK76uJE JS Bach / Marie-Claire Alain, 1964: Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme, BWV 645: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9c1C69lpuc Huguette Dreyfus: Concerto Pour Clavecin En Ré Mineur, BWV 1052 (Bach) - Movement 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnSpRqPk9Ys Herbert von Karajan, 1966: Brandenburg Concerto 1 in F major, BWV 1046 - Allegro (Bach/Бах) - DG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXfXKKwrjY4 Paul Jacobs: Herr Gott, Nun Schleuss' Den Himmel Auf! (Bach / Busoni) - 1979: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaEXWG7k2Z8 JS Bach / Albert Schweitzer, 1952: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God - Gunsbach, Alsace:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRgDxjgwWLc Bach / Karl Münchinger, 1951: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (Allegro) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QL3f46vDvY JS Bach / Jacqueline du Pré: Adagio, from the Toccata in C, BWV 564 - 1962 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQquknf_3ps Herbert von Karajan, BPO: Ouverture in D major, BWV 1068 - Air (Bach/Бах) - DG, 1966: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOKfdRiMiu8 Paul Jacobs: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Zorn, Gottes Wandt (Bach / Busoni): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDHPThhCAF4 Bach / Villa-Lobos: Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846 (transcribed for Cellos by Villa-Lobos) - 1958 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsoNdQuOSXo JS Bach / Sylvia Marlowe: Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C major, BWV 1061 - Fuga - 1960 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWED7HWFQQ Bach / Hans Kalafusz: Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 - Movement 3 - 1974 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBcw9K0fy7E "David Hertzberg"