https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jruePLnEvMs&feature=youtu.be
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 8 January 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
BACH!
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
I'm gonna go with György Ligeti's answer: Die Kunst der Fuge as played by Evgeni Koroliov.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
Ah, Bach!
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vxhQqDoAeM
I've been loving this apparently out of print record, especially the fucking insane version of the Fantasy in C minor at 19:00
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
Also, an obvious one but this is slaying me lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn6hKinnZKM
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
Another good discover recently, this very clear and not overcrowded recording of the Mass in B Minorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idsdL12wBro&list=PLQbgyQZ2H8xCAhDrcH0X3KzeKJoDoA-zu
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
Digging the Anthony Newman a lot so far, just got through the Cm Fantasy.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
I didn't really know about the pedal harpsichord before but it's a great sound, and I love his intense, insane attack and off-kilter phrasing.
I didn't know about him before but he sounds like a piece of work. He wrote an opera about OJ and Nicole.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
Forgot to listen to the festival for yet another year
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
it was glorious as always, probably should have mentioned it as the real impetus for the bump
even ordered myself a dorky bachfest tee
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
Hilary Hahn Plays Bach - the sequel! Was one of 2018's album highlights for me. His solo violin stuff is miiiindblowing when done well.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 3 January 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
she is great
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 January 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
I should listen to her more. I think the only things on my player at the moment are her Mozart violin sonatas disc with natalie zhu and the james newton howard soundtrack for The Village where iirc she was the featured soloist.
I remember liking her Sibelius quite a bit and I have heard way way too many renditions of that piece
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 4 January 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
for a fairly different rendition of the Bach violin stuff, I like Christian Tetzlaff
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 January 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
Normally I hate wet, romantic interpretations of Bach, but this transcription and performance is fucking incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGXBudB_reM
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
Been enjoying listening to it back to back with the "original" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFcS-vND1Ok
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 February 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
I love Herreweghe's gentle way with the Passions and the Cantatas. Speaking of which, his latest recording of the St. John Passion will be released tomorrow.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 13 February 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
the Bach reworks album by Olafsson last year (the one with some added electronic experimentation) was bloody awesome as well I thought.
― calzino, Thursday, 13 February 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
xp
I see you mentioned it on the classical thread, can understand the scepticism but some of this album is so good - it's got a Ryuichi Sakamoto collab on there as well even though I'm not even sure which one it is - but it's deffo worth checking out imo.
― calzino, Thursday, 13 February 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
Will do, thanks.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 13 February 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
it's got a cool noize versh of a prelude
― j., Sunday, 16 February 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
still waiting for an omni trio remix or sth like that tho
― j., Sunday, 16 February 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
Pt. 2 is indeed quite good, especially the Sakamato & Guðnadóttir reworks. No noized-up prelude here – I assume you're referring to Ben Frost's 'Ladder Mix' of BWV 855a, which is on pt. 1. I'll listen to it next.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 16 February 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
lol @ omni trio remix! I was in a very raw emotionally heightened state when I listened to this and loved it at the time. I still think there are about 4 or 5 outstanding tracks on here that justify the project.
― calzino, Sunday, 16 February 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
xp yes, i immediately chunked both parts into one big 'album'
― j., Sunday, 16 February 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
Bachfest reminder:
https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/#
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 28 December 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link
Why is the "prelude" always actually the best part?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
Man, the harmonic movement in this one, no matter how much Bach I hear I keep finding things that surprise mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYfpq_q_egQ
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 11 February 2023 04:06 (one year ago) link
you could probably have convinced me that was an early 20C piece if I didn't know
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 11 February 2023 04:07 (one year ago) link
I don't think I can OPO Bach recording, but if we're just talking keyboard music I'd have to go for Ralph Kirkpatrick's 1967 recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II on clavichord. There's a mystical, shimmering quality to the clavichord on it, and Kirkpatrick's performances are deeply thoughtful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZNnpNzmQZE
― J. Sam, Monday, 11 September 2023 18:21 (six months ago) link
The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080. I really like the Emerson Quartet's recording.
The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988. The Gould recordings from 1955 and 1981 are a study in contrasts.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 20:09 (six months ago) link
What’s the worst Bach, I wonder? speaking compositionally
There are moments in Musical Offering that are so fragmented that I’m totally fine without them, but that might be cheating
Well-Tempered: the C-major fugue always bugged me, esp after the perfect Prelude, it felt like JS was trying to pack as many statements of the subject in as humanly possible and it becomes leaden and uninteresting
Violin/cello: not a lot of shit in these volumes, it’s pretty spectacular throughout, but the C-major violin fugue is really long and wears out its welcome, and most of the E-flat cello suite is irritating both to play and to listen to; the 2nd Bourrée is cute as a button tho
Never liked the B-A-C-H fugue, personally, but it is so interestingly dissonant for the time that it’s impossible to call it a dud
― my best wishes to all (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 21:06 (six months ago) link
Oh and my POO Bach is absolutely the second movement of the Double Violin Concerto. I grew up on Zukerman/Midori but enjoy most the NBS performance on YouTube maybe
― my best wishes to all (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 21:08 (six months ago) link
Bach I don't much like? Concerto in the Italian Style. I can't exactly point to anything wrong with it, it's just so damned F Major. It sounds a little too self-satisfied for me, like a lot of Mozart.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 21:23 (six months ago) link
Vivaldi Autumn drives me crazy for the same reason tbh (not the lovely middle movement, the aggressively F-major first and thirds)
― my best wishes to all (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 21:30 (six months ago) link
Yes, exactly that.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 21:36 (six months ago) link
I know very little about the actual history behind various Bach pieces but I always wondered if he just didn't like "the Italian style" very much and was sneering at it a bit when he wrote it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 21:37 (six months ago) link