Something for a Friday: All of Bach

[Padraig]

There was a Bourree or a Sarabande particularly brilliant

It was the Sarabande. I played it without much ornamentation! I loved the harmony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FItJgQIMGq4

[Padraig]

This one did not get me going, Rob. I'm not familiar with the English Suites except for No 4, which in an earlier life I actually managed to attempt most of. There was a Bourree or a Sarabande particularly brilliant - if I can find it. Perhaps there's a lesson there.

[Joseph K]

Now this is good, couldn't wait til tomorrow to listen to it

English Suite No 1 in A major BWV 806

Played by Aline Zylberajch in July 2019

[Edgy 2]

Thanks Rob. Another rescued work - how do they do it! Two outstanding performers on perfectly matched instruments, in a beautiful setting, overlooked by The Goldfinch ( what one finds out by the way in these programmes) and other good looking witnesses. I have to say I threw caution to the winds, much as I respect Anthony Fauci, and listened without a mask. Some things simply have to be done, whatever the consequences, and I enjoyed the Sonata, especially the slow second movement - Bach Largos Matter.
(Dons frock coat in haste)

Now this is good, couldn't wait til tomorrow to listen to it

English Suite No 1 in A major BWV 806

Played by Aline Zylberajch in July 2019

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-806/

[Padraig]

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Thanks Rob. Another rescued work - how do they do it! Two outstanding performers on perfectly matched instruments, in a beautiful setting, overlooked by The Goldfinch ( what one finds out by the way in these programmes) and other good looking witnesses. I have to say I threw caution to the winds, much as I respect Anthony Fauci, and listened without a mask. Some things simply have to be done, whatever the consequences, and I enjoyed the Sonata, especially the slow second movement - Bach Largos Matter.
(Dons frock coat in haste)

[Bryn]

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[Edgy 2]

Flute Sonata in A major, BWV 1032

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-1032/

[Edgy 2]

Surprised to learn that so relatively little of Bach's music for oboe has survived, and none it seems of his Oboe Concertos. I have heard the oboe in so many of his Cantatas and other pieces to great effect. Even this Concerto is reconstructed - but it sounds solidly 'Bach' to me.

[Padraig]

Oboe Concerto in F Major BWV 1053r

Surprised to learn that so relatively little of Bach's music for oboe has survived, and none it seems of his Oboe Concertos. I have heard the oboe in so many of his Cantatas and other pieces to great effect. Even this Concerto is reconstructed - but it sounds solidly 'Bach' to me.

[Edgy 2]

Oboe Concerto in F Major BWV 1053r

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-1053r/

[Edgy 2]

What a gem. We've had this quartet before - surely a prototype for musicians of the future! (If only they had kept the instrumentation). Not fair to pick out any one member but the viola da gamba line was remarkable.

Rob, I think you meant 'good old bad habits'?

[Padraig]

What a gem. We've had this quartet before - surely a prototype for musicians of the future! (If only they had kept the instrumentation). Not fair to pick out any one member but the viola da gamba line was remarkable.

Rob, I think you meant 'good old bad habits'?

[Edgy 2]

Time for a smoke (takes me back to bad old habits)

Aria - So oft ich meine Tobackspfeife BWV 515

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-515/

[Edgy 2]

Thanks for your comments guys

[Joseph K]

About to do...

After going to my sister's, I am just now listening to the final third of this awesome cantata... what a pleasant surprise it was earlier hearing 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring' - truly sublime.