This 5-LP Set is set, with its strikingly-handsome silver artwork and Archiv logo, is rather special: Limited-Edition, Numbered-Box Set The pressings from Optimal on 180 gsm vinyl stock
Each set offers a free MP3 / FLAC 16-bit digital download in the way we pioneered on the Decca Sound 6LP and Mercury Living Presence LP sets.
Original LP front and back covers 16-page leaflet, with introduction on Archiv, and facsimiles of the inner pages of the original Archiv gatefold LPs
LP SET OVERVIEW Helmut Walcha playing famous Bach organ works one of Archivs first stereo recordings Karl Richter early recordings of two joyous Bach cantatas, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen BWV 51 and the wedding cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten BWV 202 Nikolaus Harnoncourts Court Music by Muffat and Biber with Concentus Musicus Wien one of only two recordings he made on Archiv Reinhard Goebel and Music Antiqua Kolns classic French Baroque programme, Le Parnasse Francais Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert with Handel Concerti Grossi op. 6 nos. 9 12: an LP to die for, with the clarity and airiness of its recording, and the rhythm and feeling of its performances