Ricercar Consort
Mirare MIR237 (54′)
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his recording – despite its relative brevity – left me exhausted; there is nothing tiring about the playing, which is absolutely first rate, but the music is just so intellectually demanding, or at least I allowed it to be so, teasing my brain with all its ingenuity! Of course, I could just have kicked back and enjoyed the experience as entertainment, but for some reason these perfectly shaped and effortlessly balanced performances “drew me in” and, once in the spider’s web, there was no escape. This is not the first Musical Offering to be reviewed in these pages, nor will it be the last to be written about in a critical way, but I am sure this version will find many admirers in the Bach fraternity, and I will not be surprised to see it among this year’s award winners.
Brian Clark
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