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SODDI · Post by **SODDI** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:35 pm

To me, Bach represents reason.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:15 pm

Katelyn wrote:I kind of like from him what I've heard but to be honest I really don't know enough to know where to start to get a better appreciation of his work.

Anyone got any favorite pieces by him they might want to share?

Bach is an obsession for me..
Not a day goes by where I don't listen to his music.

Some of my favs here:

My Bach community here, with plenty of good sugegstions:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108106584 ... 7263336942

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:16 pm

egbert wrote:The 6 cello suites and 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas - phenomenal stuff.

I recommend Henryk Szeryng for the 6 violin and partitas.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:18 pm

resynthesis wrote:Lots of my faves already mentioned, I'd add The Musical Offering and Art of Fugue.

Have you heard Zhu Xiao-Mei and her Art of Fugue?
One of the best records in years for me.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:20 pm

And for the Goldberg, Gould stays right up there, head and shoulders above anyone else.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:34 pm

And if you're into vocal..

The opening chorus of the John Passion:

Erbarme Dich Mein Gott, from the Matthew Passion

Cantata: Actus Tragicus - BWV 106

Cantata: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:38 pm

One of the many examples showing Bach's music is fundamentally abstract..
and what an example it is:

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:39 pm

And last one for today

That Chaconne..

resynthesis · Post by **resynthesis** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:48 pm

I still like the Kuijken (Sigiswald) Sonatas & Partitas.

No, haven't heard the Zhu Xiao-Mei Art of Fugue, definitely have a listen to that, ta! I wasn't a huge fan of her Goldbergs but I loved her interpretation of the Scarlatti sonatas (some might disagree

While not my favourite versions, I think the Open Goldberg and Open WTC are excellent projects! Open and free to share and with accompanying open scores.

http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/blog

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:58 pm

resynthesis wrote: No, haven't heard the Zhu Xiao-Mei Art of Fugue, definitely have a listen to that, ta! I wasn't a huge fan of her Goldbergs but I loved her interpretation of the Scarlatti sonatas (some might disagree

I haven't heard those. I'm sure to give that a listen

And I'm also not a huge fan of her Goldberg (I prefer her Well-Tempered), but that's partly because I almost don't see any point of anyone recording it again after Gould did.

Anyone who's into keyboard, I would always recommend my 'desert island disc'.. Rosalyn Tureck's Well-Tempered, BBC legends recording.

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 3:49 am

spaceman wrote:
egbert wrote:The 6 cello suites and 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas - phenomenal stuff.
I recommend Henryk Szeryng for the 6 violin and partitas.

I have Perlman for those and like Hillary Hahn and others - lots of good stuff on Youtube for those. I also like Viola recordings of the both of these sets. Scott Slapin and Patricia McCarthy have recorded the set of sonatas and partitas on viola.

I have YoYo Ma for the cello suites but I really like Rostropovich and this guy Maisky - quite amazing on the 6th suite.

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:46 pm

SODDI wrote:To me, Bach represents reason.

I thought he was more of a Cubase kind of guy...

nasenmann · Post by **nasenmann** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:58 pm

robojam wrote:
SODDI wrote:To me, Bach represents reason.
I thought he was more of a Cubase kind of guy...

nonsense, Bach chooses the superior piano roll. fruity loopz all the way!

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:03 pm

Turello wrote:@fmr: bad quality but This... ... Give Me freedom sensations

That's not the first, but the fifth

Yes, one of my favourites too, but comes second, together with the fourth, after the second. The concertino here is violin, traverso and harpsichord. A very interesting combination too.

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:08 pm

spaceman wrote:
resynthesis wrote: No, haven't heard the Zhu Xiao-Mei Art of Fugue, definitely have a listen to that, ta! I wasn't a huge fan of her Goldbergs but I loved her interpretation of the Scarlatti sonatas (some might disagree
I haven't heard those. I'm sure to give that a listen

And I'm also not a huge fan of her Goldberg (I prefer her Well-Tempered), but that's partly because I almost don't see any point of anyone recording it again after Gould did.

Anyone who's into keyboard, I would always recommend my 'desert island disc'.. Rosalyn Tureck's Well-Tempered, BBC legends recording.

Gould recordings may have been revolutionary when he did them, but were way overpassed by the recordings made in harpsichord, by Leonhardt and others. It's especially in the ornamentation, and in the way the tempi are played, that we can see the big differences. And this music sounds much better in harpsichord, IMO (it was for it that it was written, after all). Gould had a great intuition about how this music should be played, but he lacked the musicological knowledge that the later researches in baroque interpretation allowed.

Actually, I recommend to listen to Bach played on the harpsichord, by Leonhardt, Koopman, Pinnock, etc., to fully understand what he wrote. In the piano, my favourite is András Schiff.

Oh, and playing the Art of Fugue in the piano is a nonsense. Bach didn't left any indications about which instrument or instruments it would be played (some even suggest that it wasn't meant to be played, but is mainly a theoretical work, like the Musical Offering, and the Well Tempered Clavier are, to some extent), but the writing suggests an organ, or an ensemble of equal instruments, like strings. A piano or an harpsichord doesn't pay justice to the wonderful craftmanship of the polyphonic writing.

JS Bach