between three star and four star I wavered, but to give Rilling only three stars, of course, is not at all, especially since it is a matter of taste, which I allow myself to evaluate. Each Bach friend should access uninhibited and treat yourself to this tremendous recording of the complete Bach cantatas. Who has only partially or not at all, is indisputably enrich his classical discovery order. Now for the record itself. In many reviews will of Rilling, and often spoke of his Munich antipodes Karl Richter, as a theologian and exegete, and a solemn aura wraps around the protagonist, the Bach world has so much to owe. While listening to the various cantatas sometimes I thought, a little less theology and exegesis would have been good - let it come through a little more the musician. Overall it is a sound that I can locate my in the seventies and eighties where big huge choruses full of vigor and dynamism - yes! - Were in fashion. I heard the sound of my youth in these recordings. Meanwhile, I'm - what I candidly admit - contaminated by the sound Harnoncourt with Concentus Musicus generated. And more extreme than the cantata: Awake the voices call us - each of Harnoncourt and Rilling - can not be a difference in interpretation; it is fundamental in Tempi (upper extreme - Rilling is 3x as fast) and dynamics. It's a matter of taste and he each mood that decide what is find the way out of the ears of the brain to the heart and soul. I recommend here reflect this total box office of Tung Rilling - and of course the Bach cantatas by Harnoncourt.
