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Beautiful recording. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful. Perfect for this time of year.
You're very welcome! Thank you for listening.
I have just reviewed John Eliot Gardiner's book "Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven" which you can read on GoodReads at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...Andrew Marr
A little help for those of us who are not accustomed with the German languagehttp://emmanuelmusic.org/notes_transl...
“The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.”― Johann Sebastian Bach
“There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach
“What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach
“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed . . . equally well.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach
Wow, he seems to be a humble composer, not saying that others weren't, I enjoy the quotes of Bach.
Johann Sebastian Bach's Life (The 3-Minute Version) http://ed.ted.com/featured/Sh17k0EW
Bach is still well known today due largely to his music's inclusion in Disney’s ‘Fantasia.’ How can modern pieces of art strive to keep older work in the public’s attention?
i.e. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZ...
Mmm, really? I think JSB's works stand well on their own without including Disney's Fantasia. Is that really true? The general public knows JSB from Fantasia? I suspect that the general public just perceives it as just another soundtrack. I wonder how many people digs deeper after having watched Fantasia to find out which composers Disney used in the soundtrack.....?
You know, Haaze, I thought the same thing. Personally, and I don't believe I am alone, the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor was famous way before Fantasia. I don't believe it was Disney that brought that to light. Besides, it is used sometimes as a 'haunting' melody.Bach has been famous, I believe, for centuries. This little video is not necessarily fact. All the videos in this particular site are created by other viewers so they are subject to only that which the viewer knows. Maybe the person who submitted this video was late in learning about Bach?
I can see a kid liking the music and humming along, but there is a big step from hearing it in a film and asking about the composer. :)
Haaze wrote: "I can see a kid liking the music and humming along, but there is a big step from hearing it in a film and asking about the composer. :)"Exactly
Today is Bach's birthday. At least it is according to my local classical radio station. I caught a few nice recordings being played but had to turn it off because the announcers' voices were too irritating. (The regular announcers must have the day off.)To celebrate, watch/listen to this Bach/Vivaldi 4 keyboard concerto with four Israeli pianists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OwQO...
I love their high energy and they do a great job. I've probably watched this a dozen times.
Is this Vivaldi's music transcribed by Bach? Four harpsichords rather than violins? I have a tendency to harmonize with Bach's harpsichord pieces, but I'm "cheating" as I prefer the piano version. Especially the Well-tempered Clavier Book I performed by Rosalyn Tureck: *deep sigh*
Tranquility...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ONGD...
It is a little bit (quite a bit) different in the original version for harpsichord. I am still trying to get used to it. Which one do you prefer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXhKe...
Haaze wrote: "Is this Vivaldi's music transcribed by Bach? Four harpsichords rather than violins? "Yes. Well, for piano, not harpsichord in that particular performance.
Tureck is great. I have not listened to Leonhardt.
I really enjoy cycling through various performers....I have Pollini's and Andras Schiff's WTC 1-2 on my hard drive.
I enjoy listening to piano version more than harpsichord, on average...
Yes, piano is definitely softer on the ear and the mind. I try every once in a while to expand my ears to harpsichord (especially since JSB wrote the music for those instruments). It will take years I suspect. The harpsichord works better accompanied for some interesting reason. E.g. Bach's violin sonatas are great with the harpsichord.I like Schiff's version as well! :) It tends to be the most one played in my house, but Tureck is my favorite. She is softer and more romantic in her playing. Cheers for JSB!
I think Bach has a more distinctive signature to his music, especial his key-board music, than any other composer.
I guess most all barque music sounds rather different than everything that came after it; and I guess it's not only the sound, but also the complexity of the music that gives you a hint that it must be Bach; and sometimes, even, you might get Bach confused with something by Handel or Telemann, but overall his music to me sounds unique.
When I was young, all that interweaving complexity was too much for me. Now I love it. Just close my eyes and zone out on it.
Yes.For me metaphorically: Beethoven is like a super-nova and Bach is like a black-hole.
Cool. - )
Mark wrote: "Yes.For me metaphorically: Beethoven is like a super-nova and Bach is like a black-hole."
well said!
Heather wrote: "Mark wrote: "Yes.For me metaphorically: Beethoven is like a super-nova and Bach is like a black-hole."
well said!"
Thank you.
One of my favorite composers. I love his Brandenburg Concertos! And of course pieces from the Well Tempered Clavier.
Piyangie wrote: "One of my favorite composers. I love his Brandenburg Concertos! And of course pieces from the Well Tempered Clavier."He is one of my favorites, also. I like his fugues and inventions. I can play Inventions 8 and 13 on the piano and love it! I can play the Fugue in D minor but the piano doesn't do it justice like the organ can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUHXq8...