The complete CD Edition

Johann Sebastian Bach, Helmuth Rilling

Bach-Edition: The Complete Works (172 CDs & CDR)

Bach-Edition: Die kompletten Werke

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CD/ Track	Title		Duration
1.1	Church cantatas
1.2	Secular cantatas
1.3	Motets
1.4	Masses, single mass movements, Magnificat
1.5	Passions & Oratorios
1.6	Four part chorales, hymns and arias
1.7	Organ works
1.8	Clavier works (harpsichord)
1.9	Works for the Lute
1.10	Chamber music
1.11	Orchestral works
1.12	Canons, Musical Offering, The Art of the Fugue
1.13	Other works

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199,00 EUR

: SCM Hänssler
Art.-No.:: 098.620.000
: Compact Disc
Duration:: 175:06 hrs.
: August 2010
: * recommended retail price

The 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of hänssler CLASSIC's "Edition Bachakademie": The Complete Works of Johann Sebastian Bach under the direction of Helmuth Rilling! Globally recognized as the ONLY authoritative edition of Bach's works!

- 172 CDs in black paper sleeves
- in a very attractive, elegant looking, light and handy box
- 5000 pages text material on CD ROM
- two books with BWV- and CD- number listing

hänssler CLASSIC's EDITON BACHAKADEMIE set the standard for Bach interpretation in the new millenium! Ten years later, with tens of thousands of copies of the original box set sold globally, hänssler CLASSIC makes the epic Bach Edition available once again - completely redesigned, stremlined and updated - at a new competitive price.

A celebration of a lifetime's work, conceived and realized in cooperation with the International Bach Academy under the artistic direction of Maestro Helmuth Rilling - whose genius and unerring ability to recognize emerging musical talent provided a showcase for many of today's most famous artists, including Arleen Augér, Juliane Banse, Thomas Quasthoff, Ingeborg Danz, Christine Schäfer, Evgeni Koroliov and many more - all to be heard here!

For more than a decade, hänssler CLASSIC's Complete Works of Bach has retained its pre-eminence as one of the milestones of recording history and stands as a benchmark in the performance of Bach's immortal music.

This deluxe new edition includes all 172 CDs published in the original edition - each disc somes securely packaged in an individual sleeve, housed inside a handsome keepsake display box. Two booklets (more than 500 pages combined!) provide a handy index for each track and a newly produced CD-ROM (utilizing the latest Adobe Flash Player 10 compatible with all Windows and Mac 05) includes the complete tests, translations and booklet notes (more than 5000 pages!) in German, English, French and Spanish. Weighing in at 4 kg and with the dimensions of 41 x 14.5 x 14.5 cm, this is a truly beautiful and easy-to-store Bach Box!

Tens years have come and gone since hänssler CLASSIC's Edition Bachakademie first saw the light of day. The world has changed irrevocably since then - but the music of Bach lives on forever!