Something for a Friday: All of Bach

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just "bumping" this Thread as it's only just occurred to me that it's not been mentioned recently. Anyone still following it?

Fantasy in G major for Organ BWV 572 to get things restarted:

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-572/

[EdgeleyRob]

Just "bumping" this Thread as it's only just occurred to me that it's not been mentioned recently. Anyone still following it?

Fantasy in G major for Organ BWV 572 to get things restarted:

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-572/

I never miss an episode,Fridays wouldn't be the same.
I wonder what's in store for Christmas day.
I stopped posting because there didn't seem to be much interest.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I stopped posting because there didn't seem to be much interest.

I rarely posted (I play a Bach Cantata every morning, so I had to jiggle the "Friday" slot around) but always followed the Thread, Edgey: and with over 5000 followers, I think the "passive" interest was always there. Let's keep it going for 2016.

[EdgeleyRob]

I rarely posted (I play a Bach Cantata every morning, so I had to jiggle the "Friday" slot around) but always followed the Thread, Edgey: and with over 5000 followers, I think the "passive" interest was always there. Let's keep it going for 2016.

Sounds like a plan ferney

[Keraulophone]

After listening to the Magnificat sung to a deadly dull Anglican chant by Hopkins from Bishop Benson's 1880 'Nine Lessons with Carols' (the Victorian Truronians liked that sort of thing), I had to make a bee-line for Bach's life-enhancing masterwork on the same passage from Luke Ch.1. The additional material here on BWV 243 is well worth investigating.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-243/

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Two weeks into the New Year already! - Time to resuscitate this invaluable Thread with a five minute organ piece:

http://allofbach.com/en/

[ChrisBennell]

Still following this website which I look forward to every Friday. Particularly enjoyed last weeks Cantata BWV100 (Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan) which I didn't know before. Also enjoyed a recent performance of the Violin Concerto in E. Lots of subtle phrasing from Shunske Sato I felt.

[EdgeleyRob]

Two weeks into the New Year already! - Time to resuscitate this invaluable Thread with a five minute organ piece:
http://allofbach.com/en/

Thanks Ferney,I'm still here

These small pieces say so much in so little time I think.
You wouldn't think BWV 736 was about death if you didn't know the title.
Bach's organ music is becoming increasingly important to me.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Thanks Ferney,I'm still here

- so that's you, me and Chris at the very least!

These small pieces say so much in so little time I think.
You wouldn't think BWV 736 was about death if you didn't know the title.
Bach's organ music is becoming increasingly important to me.

- and especially for your last sentence. For years, I've hated the physical sound of the organ and have had to make do with reading the score (my "imagined organ" - stop sniggering on the back row! - never bothered me). Then things changed just over a year ago, and I'm catching up - thanks mainly to this "All of Bach" site, and the rather wonderful Mr Bowyer

[EdgeleyRob]

- so that's you, me and Chris at the very least!


- and especially for your last sentence. For years, I've hated the physical sound of the organ and have had to make do with reading the score (my "imagined organ" - stop sniggering on the back row! - never bothered me). Then things changed just over a year ago, and I'm catching up - thanks mainly to this "All of Bach" site, and the rather wonderful Mr Bowyer

Another small but perfectly formed organ piece whizzed by today

Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein BWV 734

Over in the blink of an eye,but wow....some might be more familiar with the super fast Busoni arrangement

[EdgeleyRob]

The Well Tempered Clavier,BWV 861.

Also found the below ,probably meat and drink to many on here.

https://www.teoria.com/en/articles/BWV861/

http://www.kunstderfuge.com/theory/bwv861.html

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Well Tempered Clavier,BWV 861.

The G minor Prelude & Fugue from Book 1, in case anyone was looking forward to a four-hour listening marathon!

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-861/detail/

Also found the below ,probably meat and drink to many on here.

https://www.teoria.com/en/articles/BWV861/

http://www.kunstderfuge.com/theory/bwv861.html

Wow! I had no idea that this site existed, Rob! Fantastic explanation/analysis - I wish such a resource had been available forty years ago!

[Nick Armstrong]

Bach's organ music is becoming increasingly important to me.

things changed just over a year ago, and I'm catching up

Same here. Over the past 3 or 4 of years perhaps.

The recordings that flipped the switch for me were

Margaret Phillips in Paris,

Stefano Molardi on various machines in Germany and latterly,

Robert Quinney at Trinity College, Cambridge

A problem for me was that organs come in all shapes and sizes (still sniggering at the back?! ) and they and their recordings range from the ghastly to the perfect (bit like harpsichords) - it's easy to be put off by encountering the dodgy end of the market...

Those analytical sites are great, Rob

[EdgeleyRob]

Oooops sorry,yes,a teeny bit of WTC.

[EdgeleyRob]

BWV 651 is today's official offering,which is very nice.

Also found this while loitering on you tube Bach pages