Product Review

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