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

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (61 of them)

what Dan said abt the Motets

which recording of the Brandenburgs were you listening too, Sundar? More (I think) than any other composer, wildly differing interpretations are the norm for JSB on record.

― Jeff W, Monday, 6 January 2003 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I have two Bach albums ... one played on xylophone presets for Babies, but my favorite has to be Les Swingles Singers : Jazz Sebastian Bach.

Wonderful bossa-nova flavoured vocal arrangements of the classics.

― phil jones (interstar), Monday, 6 January 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

Search: Partitas for keyboard, too.

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

what dan said!

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

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

You don't say?

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

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

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

one year passes...

seeing st. matthew passion tonight...

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

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 (sixteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

five years pass...

six sonatas for violin and harpsichord :)

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

welt gute nacht baroque German doo wop

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

Which recording flops?

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

which recording slaps?

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

Slap That Bassch

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

This slaps:

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

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

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 (seven years ago)

*piece

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

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

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

Slaps less but still v nice imo

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

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 (seven years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

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

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

Mutet.

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

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.