"A new set of the Brandenburgs from Reinhard Goebel? One's mind immediately goes back to the 1980s, when his first, typically provocative recording with Musica Antiqua Köln dropped its little bomb of shock and awe ... The sound of it is different from the earlier recording, of course, even though perhaps only the oboes are easily recognisable as modern rather than period ... The standard of playing of the Berliners, built largely of musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic and the Akademie für Alte Musik, is excellent. Maybe with its oddities this is not a Brandenburg recording to favour over all others, but then such a thing probably doesn't exist"