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Héctor
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Apr 03, 2008 10:09PM
Bach - Prelude From Cello Suite No.1
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Trio Sonatas BWV 525, 526 and 527 are impressive!!
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Bach's' Toccata and Fugue in D minor is what inspired me to learn how to play organ.
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Did you see I put up a thread about the VYSO on brightcecilia?
bach is probabily the composer that I have played more music of...and I dont really mind
Listen to gavotte in D major!its great
Concerto in A minor 1st movement...I don't like this particular video but this is the song at least: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Pyua...
He just doesn't play it my style, lol.
(: took me so long to memorize that...
Eek. The Cello Suites sound twee on that thing. Like the soundtrack to a travel programme. *condemns*
*corrects matters*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmQwkv...
What's everybodies favourite recordings of the cello suites? I love Pablo Casals original, and Paul Tortelier, personally. It's such an excellent story of how they were discovered too- like something from a film script.
Goldie wrote: "Bach's' Toccata and Fugue in D minor is what inspired me to learn how to play organ."I agree! I love playing (or attempting to play) that particular piece on the organ. It just doesn't sound the same on a piano.
His other fugues do sound really good on a harpsicord, also...
One of my favorite things about Music Theory class is that we had to sit down an analyze a lot of Bach's works. I only knew of the famous ones (like Toccata and Fugue and Wachet Auf), but all of his works are genius. Has anybody seen the German Brass video/concert "German Brass Goes Bach?" Highly recommended!
*chokes* you liked music theory?thats my worst class after german!
Oh yeah! That is why I am going into Musicology! My professor was amazing and was my inspiration to go into musicology after I earned my Music Education degree.
I've never taken music theory, but of course Bach's the greatest genius ever ever ever. Nothing that came after would have been possible without him.
Héctor wrote: "Bach - Prelude From Cello Suite No.1"thats my favorite cello piece
today i found a cd with all of his sonatas and partitas...i want it soo badly
The comment, Tara, is exactly right, though, and can't possibly offend -- this happens to be my religion, other can have their own dieties...
Listening to Bach rates very high as well. It once brought me a remarkable experience of synesthesia.As I was waking up, one of the Brandenburg concertos was playing on the radio, and I saw cubes being built in the air.
My daughter plays in the featured quartet at the Chelan (WA) Bach festival each summer. Bach didn't write string quartets so they play other classical composers and a couple of Bach pieces that have been adapted to quartet.They play at wineries and in churches. Last July, they played ten concerts in six days. It was sooo enjoyable--I was very happy to be there!
As far as I'm concerned, it's instant therapy always.
The Bach Festival is in performance in Chelan, WA, from now until July 16. (See message 36 for details). It's well worth a trip to Chelan to hear them.The quartet -- two violinists from LA, violist (my daughter, Jordan) from Boston, cellist from Michigan.This quartet has performed together since they were teenagers, so, erm... about twelve years.
"Bach basically father of all music. Huge influence. Educator of Chopin, of Beethoven, of Schumann. Even all modern jazz already here."Taken from
How wonderful to have a daughter so musical! Also, she has a great name -- Hemingway fan?
Tara wrote: "without wishing to offend any religious people, my piano professor once said that playing Bach was the closest we'd get to god....admittedly we were 'in the zone' at the time....."I'm an atheist, but certainly playing Bach has provided me with what I can only describe as a spiritual experience. I notice, Tara, from a previous post, that you dislike the sound of a harpsichord. Have you ever heard a clavichord? Admittedly, it's like a foreign language at first, but if you keep at it, it can teach you things about Bach. . . .
I've built two, in the past twenty years.
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Anna wrote: ""Bach basically father of all music. Huge influence. Educator of Chopin, of Beethoven, of Schumann. Even all modern jazz already here."I put a bit of the Goldberg Variations in my novel, The End of the Monsoon, to help bring out character and a sub-theme. Do you play it? If so, what's your 'take' on the 25th variation? How would you describe your interpretation?
What do you mean by "the father of all music?" I revere Bach and consider him one of our greatest geniuses, but he was not particularly original. The various formal imitation forms he employed with such mastery had not changed significantly since Josquin's time. Pablo Casals once said that at least once a day, every day, he would play Bach, no matter how he felt or what was happening. "No matter what," he said, "the sun is still the sun."
That's a good point. It's my teacher's quote, and refers more to the fact that Bach was such a central influence on so many of the composers who followed - Mozart and Haydn, both introduced to his music by Baron von Swieten; Beethoven, who performed the WTC as a small child; Chopin who practised Preludes and Fugues before going on stage; Schumann who said 'Make Bach your daily bread' etc. etc.
Oh hi, Maria! I just saw your note (days later).I named my daughter after Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby. I love Gatsby, but mainly I loved the sound of the name, Jordan Baker. Our last name is Voelker (pronounced Velker here) so 'Jordan' works well with it for sound.
Raising a musician was great fun. I loved everything about it, and now the daughter soars. She plays in two orchestras (Boston Philharmonic and Plymouth), a string quartet, and three bands (alternative country, jazz, and appalachian music -- in Boston and New York City.
Hello, Jeanne. Of course I meant gatsby -- I type quickly & never noticed I'd typed in his good friend's name instead! Jordan Voelker sounds even better than Jordan Baker -- you did well, & you must be so proud of her. I wish my daughters were musical but neither is. (They have great names, though).
Hi Maria,You have a lovely name yourself. I'm not surprised to
hear that your daughters have great names. We 'ear people' do our best to give our kids names they will love. I wanted my three daughters' names to have beautiful sounds and attractive rhythms. My second daughter didn't have a name until she was seven days old because my (then) husband and I couldn't agree on a name.
My first daughter is a fine athlete and not at all musical. The second daughter played piano and violin for a while, and she could have progressed very well, but her passion was to do whatever the first daughter did.
The third daughter was born much later and took to music quickly and enthusiastically, making excellent progress all along. Since I love music so much, this was very gratifying.
That said, it's my feeling that music lessons with a good teacher are never wasted. The child is going to learn something.
BTW, if you go to the top of the page (top right) and click on 'photos', you can see photos of Jordan from performances with 'Beat Circus'.Not the baby photo, though. That is her baby, Henrik, playing piano.
Jordan also plays 'musical saw' (in addition to viola, violin, and fiddle music) and makes it sound good. When she first told me she was adding this, I looked on 'You Tube' to see/hear people play saw, and the sound was fairly awful -- but those people aren't musicians. The sound of musical saw is similar to a theramin, but there's a lot more control of the tones (if the musician plays it well.)
So she's musical AND beautiful. Not bad, ma'am. And Henrik is gorgeous.
Thanks, Maria. The kids and grand kids are all healthy and enjoying life. I'm grateful for it.I saw on your profile that you would love to have been a brilliant conductor. Fabulous! My fantasy career is brilliant composer. Well, I never had the training, so I compose stories instead. Although, I do have one theatre piece in the works -- starring the grand kids of course. I've written twelve songs for it. My daughter Jordan saw my music and said, "Why are these all I, IV, and V chords?" I said, "Because that's what I know!" Heh! The songs are 'camp song style' anyway, so it doesn't matter, but Jordan did improve some for me.
Jeanne, I'm responding to you comment about conductor and composer. Let me add, "OR composer." The joke of it all is that I don't even read music, not really, or ever taken lessons or had training, although now, frustratedly, I SING.
Maria,We're all entitled to choose a fantasy career. It has nothing to do with actual ability, only love of the work... or in some cases, love of the image.
When I was a child, all the little girls (except for me) wanted to be actresses. I wanted to be an 'author'.I'm finally working on it. But my fantasy career is composer.
And good luck with the authoring! I know it's so wonderful to see your work in print, and appreciated by your readers.
It is satisfying to see my stories between the covers of a book. The satisfaction, for me, is that I created a story -- a work of fiction, polished it, submitted it to someone who liked it, and released it for others to enjoy. I love to read stories, so why not contribute?
Who dares wins! The SAS motto does hold true. We all at sometime or other limit ourselves. Good luck with the writing Jeanne, Might be some time though before I conduct the Vienna Phil, except in my imagination!
