Bach – Brandenburg Concertos
European Brandenburg Ensemble / Trevor Pinnock (hpd)
Avie  AV2119 

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Trevor Pinnock’s 60th birthday present to himself, made with an ensemble formed especially to perform the works, “is just what such a project should be: talented musicians relishing each other’s company in music of truly inspiring greatness,” wrote Lindsay Kemp. Recorded almost 25 years after Pinnock’s pioneering interpretation of the with the English Concert, the disc features an impressive line-up of Baroque players – including violinist Kati Debretzeni, flautist Katy Bircher and trumpeter David Blackadder – who exhibit a “relaxed expertise about their performances which seems to allow them to communicate directly without technical or ideological hindrance”.