{"product_id":"4560250650609","title":"Herbert Kegel - J.S. Bach: The Musical Offering - Import CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eCredits:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerbert Kegel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKegel's Musical Offering — a benchmark performance on modern instruments, Bach of exceptional bite\nThe WEITBLICK Kegel Edition turns, unexpectedly, to Bach: an outstanding archive release in which Kegel's exacting ear is audible in every bar.\nHighly praised by the critic Mitsutoshi Kyo — the following is an extract from his liner note.\n\n\"The very opening, and the sound of the keyboard instrument, comes as a surprise. The Royal Theme would normally be presented on a harpsichord, but this is not a harpsichord. Nor is it a piano. The recording data identify it as a Flügel-Pianoforte. In fact a harpsichord is also used here as continuo; presumably the harpsichord was felt to be too weak to present so important a theme as a solo. Or perhaps a fortepiano was chosen because that is what Bach is thought to have used in the presence of Frederick the Great — the king owned instruments by the great keyboard builder Silbermann. From there each movement unfolds with meticulous care. It is a performance of Kegel's characteristic, almost grim seriousness. An organ, an instrument rarely called upon in this work, also appears. There is not a trace of the courtly elegance one might expect from music written for a royal household; the way the timbres of the individual instruments collide sounds almost like twentieth-century music. In the penultimate 'Canon a 4', one is startled to hear voices suddenly enter. Most striking of all, however, is that the 'Five Canons on the Royal Theme' are played in Dessau's arrangement and the 'Ricercar a 6' in Webern's. Dessau's version, built around wind and above all brass sonorities, calls to mind a sunset over a soot-stained industrial city; Webern's, by contrast, is delicate, romantic music of subtly shifting colour. The result of mixing these elements is that this fifty-minute Musical Offering becomes a strange temporal experience in which the distant past and the twentieth century stand side by side, or intersect. One might well call it a kind of collage.\"\n\n* Includes Japanese liner notes [text supplied by Tobu Trading]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weitblick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53595427275041,"sku":"4560250650609","price":2690.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8482\/2076\/files\/4560250650609.jpg?v=1790481076","url":"https:\/\/cdsvinyljapan.com\/products\/4560250650609","provider":"CDs Vinyl Japan Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}