![]() ![]() I remember when, at the time of the 250th anniversary, another complete set of recordings of Bach’s 1,126 compositions was offered by the Hanssler Classic label. Now Brilliant Classics has updated the series with a few new recordings, put the CDs in space-saving slip covers, and collected them in a foot-long box. ![]() ![]() More than 100,000 copies of each box were sold within the first two years in the Netherlands alone. Bach cantatas with your cantelope? The Dutch said yes. This edition was first issued in 23 installments and, believe it or not, offered in grocery stores in the Netherlands at very modest prices. This year marks Bach’s 322nd birthday these recordings, including new digital ones of all the 200 sacred cantatas on period instruments and sung by a boys’ choir, were mostly made to commemorate the 250th anniversary of his death, which was observed in 2000. This month I will be reviewing 155 CDs because I received a boxed set of the complete works of Bach from the Brilliant Classics label, distributed by Koch Entertainment. ![]()
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