You can find the recording on Apple Music and you can sample it for free.
Can you use that info to see which performances are more properly paced?
You can check to see how long it was in the original and then check to see how long it is in the recording.
Barnes and Noble had headsets in their music section the last time I was there. You can sample the music to find the track you want. There are also sites on line that allow you to hear a portion of the recording before downloading onto a CD. Hope that helps.
https://www.classical-music.com/features/recordings/best-recordings-js-bachs-brandenburg-concertos/
Well, there’s only so much time on each side of the LP.
Give me a minute, I'm going to find a perfect example.
As for this being a First World problem, as a wise person told me...."yes, it IS a First World Problem.....but we LIVE in the First World."
This was 1926, and one had to do what one had to do to fit the recording on the media available at the time.
you never heard of allegro?
Avoid anything by the Boston Pops?
I had a somewhat similar challenge recently. I wanted to hear recordings of Shastakovitch’s 5th, where the final movement did not accelerate in tempo as Bernstein made it so popular to do. The 5th has immensely more power if the coda is slower as if to express the ponderous crushing weight of Soviet culture. Having a subscription to Tidal allowed me me to find Rostapovitch’s performance of it which was closer to what I was looking for.
Benjamin Britten’s recording with the English Chamber Orchestra has fairly leisurely tempi but not as slow as some from that era(it’s from the 1960’s.) The link is to the CD. If you search for it in the digital music section of amazon, you can listen to audio samples of it. Neville Marriner’s recording with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields is another you might want to check out.
You might try recording those CDs on your computer, then playing them back at a slower tempo. You can use a free, open-source piece of software to do so. It’s called Audacity and you can download a copy from here: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
If you like your slower version, you can burn a copy of the file you produce to a CD. Then replay it using a regular stereo or home theater system.
I thought the movie was lame but the soundtrack is AMAZING!!!!.. Slow paced, relaxing.. booming crescendos here and there.. a JOY to listen to.:
HAVE A LISTEN, HERE:
The Amazon reviews of most recordings (with a large enough sample size!) is a good way to tell the particulars of a recording.
You could subscribe to a music streaming app, listen and it will try to feed you music that you like.
It helps me to get a wider variety, because I get in a rut quite often.
It will feed you the crappy tempo music too, so you can weed it out and see which performances you like.
I use spotify and it gives me all sorts of crazy lists to choose from after a while.
Then you can figure out what CDs to seek out and buy.
Go to MyFreeMP3.com, look up the song by title or artist, play it, download it if you like.
The Netherlands Bach Society is involved in an “All of Bach” project. This is their Brandenburg 5 performed live on period instruments.
Stop playing the 33’s at 78 or 45 rpm.