Bach on Early Music Now 3.2.20

[ardcarp]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dyft

Tom McKinney presents highlights from the 2019 Actus Humanus Festival in Poland

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV 1050
Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin

Bach: Excerpts from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Marcin Swiatkiewicz (harpsichord)


Sorry not to have posted this up in advance. Running to catch up at the moment......

[oddoneout]

There were some loud and slightly alarming 'noises off' part way through the broadcast.

[ardcarp]

Pole dancing....?

[Padraig]

Pole dancing....?

No. It was that harpsichord!

Here's a piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uX-5HOx2Wc

[ardcarp]

What a legend. I always think of the infinite universe, monkeys typing the works of Shakespeare, sums being greater than their parts, and other such things when I see and hear the extraordinary man.