Opus Klassik Awards 2018
Concert Recording (Music up to and including 18th century)

Berliner Barock Solisten, Reinhard Goebel

Under the baton of Reinhard Goebel, the Berlin Barock Solisten releases a spectacular new recording of one of the Baroque era’s most celebrated masterpieces.

Thirty years after Goebel’s first reference recording of the Brandenburg Concertos, maestro Goebel and the Berlin Barock Solisten perform the Brandenburgs not only with consummate technique but with thrilling verve, supreme sensitivity and a wealth of dynamic contrasts. Goebel has also incorporated the latest findings of musical scholarship in his recording, for example regarding the choice of instruments.

Rounding off the recording are the Sinfonias from the Cantatas “Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte” and “Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats”, both of which relate musically to the Brandenburg Concertos.

"The sound of it is different from the earlier recording, of course, even though perhaps only the oboes are easily recognisable as modern rather than period…The standard of playing of the Berliners, built largely of musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic and the Akademie für Alte Musik, is excellent. Maybe with its oddities this is not a Brandenburg recording to favour over all others, but then such a thing probably doesn’t exist." - Gramophone Magazine February 2018