JS Bach: C/D, S/D, RFD

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I was listening to a recording by the LA Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwartz (Capitol, 1980). I'm currently listening to a record of the violin concertos and double concerto by Yehudi Menuhin with Christian Ferras with the Menuhin Festival Chamber Orchestra and the Robert Masters Chamber Orchestra. I also have the Clavierubung pt 3 (1st record) by Ralph Downes on the Royal Festival Hall organ as well as a "Festival of Hits" record from 1969.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 03:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

the other evening i was wondering why i strangely had the bach double concerto in my head all of a sudden...then remembered that i'd been reading this thread. it's great fun to play, but something you actually have to practice. sigh.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Two Part Inventions (WAY better than Three Parts)
Also search hearing the great organ pieces in a church with a big pipe organ - home stereo can never do them justice.

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 05:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin - I meant to add: Nathan Milstein's Deutche Grammaphon recording from the 70s is incredibly virtuosic.

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 05:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Let us not forget The Coffee Cantata. Probably the best artistic defense for caffeine ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Toccata in D minor is loads of fun to play on a pipe organ. I feel like some kind of creepy phantom who snuck into the church late at night just to play it the disapear into the shadows afterwards.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search: Partitas for keyboard, too.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

what dan said!

someone should start a bach two-part inventions: s/d thread

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmmm... Am I really going to be the first person to mention the whole "Switched On..." phenom? Probably not the best way to get into JSB, but really fun stuff.

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh god, "switched on," the throat needed to be cleared before it could utter anything of interest I suppose.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Did I kill this thread? Sheesh. Why dontcha all go back to discussing the merits/failings of Gould and Rostopovich, then. Snobs. :P

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

I guess I meant "Switched On" may have some significance in the history of electronic music but as far as Bach is concerned.....

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2003 05:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Everything that I've heard by Bach has been at least good, and I've only skimmed the surface of his voluminous output. Is he the greatest composer who ever lived? Maybe so. Particular stand-outs: "St. Matthew Passion", "Goldberg Variations", "Two and Three-Part Inventions", "Cantatas" (don't have the specific ones in front of me, but they're probably all good, right?), "Air on the G String".

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I LOVE "Air on the G String"!!!! Not only is it beautiful, but it has the BEST NAME IN CLASSICAL MUSIC.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Depends on the original German title, surely. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 January 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

okay, i want some of Bach's organ work, specifically pieces with a massive enough sound to remind you of the Power Of God. That kinda thing.

Any suggestions?

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link

The famous Tocatta and Fugue is the one you probably will recognize most immediately

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link

well, yeah, that's the obvious one, but it's also the one most associate with Phantom of the Opera and bargain-basement "Halloween Soundz" tapes that the neighbor lady liked to play every year.

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 05:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Heh heh...it always makes me think of "Rollerball" with James Caan!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 05:30 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Really getting into "The Art of the Fugue".

(Radio 3 is playing the complete works of Bach until xmas day, btw - shd tune in sometime.)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 17 December 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Non-stop Bach til 2AM New Years, y'all. They're doing a bunch of Glen Gould right now.

http://www.wkcr.org

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 29 December 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Not like it's historically correct or anything, but this is a marvellous album anyway:
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005ORCV.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 29 December 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link

ike turner invented classical music when his harpsichord fell off the back of the car they were driving to a show in st. louis.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Saturday, 29 December 2007 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link

You don't say?

― The Reverend, Saturday, 29 December 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link

The random notes played when it occured were probably a big influence on Schönberg and Stravinsky.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 29 December 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

seeing st. matthew passion tonight...

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

Obsessed with this choral prelude after watching Solaris:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fhqqxEQRRY&feature=related

― pithfork (Hurting 2), Monday, 11 January 2010 06:38 (fourteen years ago) link

two years pass...

It's that time of year

http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/2012-bach-festival-december-22-31

― Johnny Hotcox, Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link

ten months pass...

I've been digging into Bach lately, and while I have a pretty good idea where to go with his vocal and solo instrument work, I'd love to hear recommendations on his chamber and orchestral music. I'm only familiar with the Brandenburg Concertos (and "Air on the G String", of course), and I'd want to hear more stuff like that. Preferably on period instruments, as I love them recorders and harpsichords! Which recordings would you folks recommend?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 12:31 (ten years ago) link

for historically informed/period instrument performances search: gustav leonhardt, konrad junghänel, rene jacobs, reinhard goebel

rachel podger's recordings of the sonatas and partitas for violin (on an original instrument iirc) are incredible.

― clouds, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link

five years pass...

six sonatas for violin and harpsichord :)

― flopson, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link

welt gute nacht baroque German doo wop

― flopson, Monday, 27 May 2019 04:48 (four years ago) link

Which recording flops?

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 27 May 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link

which recording slaps?

― j., Monday, 27 May 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link

Slap That Bassch

― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 May 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link

This slaps:

https://youtu.be/LoHh_r8gSi4?t=649

― pomenitul, Monday, 27 May 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link

lol violinists really love playing that peace in palatial, echoey rooms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEBX_ouEw1I

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 27 May 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link

*piece

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 27 May 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link

Slaps less (flops more) than the Kremer performance imho.

― pomenitul, Monday, 27 May 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link

Slaps less but still v nice imo

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 27 May 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link

Which recording flops?

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, May 27, 2019 10:44 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Conductor: John Elliot Gardiner
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

― flopson, Monday, 27 May 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link

Enjoying the Six Partitas, with Lucy Carolan on harpsichord.

Apparently JSB considered this stuff his commercial crowd-pleasing material and didn't rate it, but I like it... particularly Partitas #1 and #3

― Josefa, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jq8yWDHA7g

― j., Saturday, 6 June 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link

Mutet.

― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 June 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link

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