Something for a Friday: All of Bach

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Bwv 642

Another short piece (albeit with plenty of hooha) for organ this week - the Chorale Prelude Wer nun den lieben Gott lässt walten: all 93 seconds of it! A vigorous performance by Dorien Schouten at the 1670 organ of the Bovenkerk St Nicholas in Kampen Overijssel.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-642/

[EdgeleyRob]

Another short piece (albeit with plenty of hooha) for organ this week - the Chorale Prelude Wer nun den lieben Gott lässt walten: all 93 seconds of it! A vigorous performance by Dorien Schouten at the 1670 organ of the Bovenkerk St Nicholas in Kampen Overijssel.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-642/

burrit won't let me listen here,an I like hooha in an organ piece

Making do with Fournier's cello suites

[BBMmk2]

Been playing his viola da gamba sonatas, well two of them, as they are coupled with a Scarlatti VdG Sonata and a Handel suite. Played by Steven Isserlis and Richard Egarr. Very good recital disc this.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die ZwölfeBWV 22.

A real treat this week (yes - I know it's a real treat every week, but this is an especially real "real treat" ) - a 17minute Cantata in a superb performance from April this year by the Netherlands Bach Society (the organization responsible for the whole "All of Bach" project) led by one of my favourite Musicians Sigiswald Kuijken. The performance took place in the Fifteenth Century Walloon Church in Amsterdam (QI trivia: Vincent van Gogh's uncle, the Theologian Johannes Stricker, used to deliver sermons at this church in the 1870s) - the organ used was originally built in 1733, and it is wonderful to see the Violoncelli da Spalla (an "on-the-shoulder" 'cello, looking like a very wide viola - you'd do your neck in trying to stick this under your chin) in use.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-22/

It's a pretty good species that can produce an intellect able to bring these sounds into existence

[EdgeleyRob]

Cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die ZwölfeBWV 22.

A real treat this week (yes - I know it's a real treat every week, but this is an especially real "real treat" ) - a 17minute Cantata in a superb performance from April this year by the Netherlands Bach Society (the organization responsible for the whole "All of Bach" project) led by one of my favourite Musicians Sigiswald Kuijken. The performance took place in the Fifteenth Century Walloon Church in Amsterdam (QI trivia: Vincent van Gogh's uncle, the Theologian Johannes Stricker, used to deliver sermons at this church in the 1870s) - the organ used was originally built in 1733, and it is wonderful to see the Violoncelli da Spalla (an "on-the-shoulder" 'cello, looking like a very wide viola - you'd do your neck in trying to stick this under your chin) in use.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-22/

It's a pretty good species that can produce an intellect able to bring these sounds into existence

Thanks ferney,a real treatissimo !

[EdgeleyRob]

Today

The 'legendary' Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor BWV 903.

As well as the usual talk on the piece there's a bonus second one on the workings of the Clavichord on which it is played.

Unmissable,well every episode is but this one is unmissabler

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

This is very odd! I was sure that I had posted on this week's Thread, giving a link! Oh, dear - well; here it is:

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-903/

... highly recommended!

[Padraig]

This is very odd! I was sure that I had posted on this week's Thread

I KNOW I did yesterday, to the effect that I had found the piece 'esoteric' etc etc. Strangely, when I re-read my post, not only did it not include the word 'esoteric', but it contained words that I did not write at all, while making some kind of weird sense unrelated to what I had written.
I deleted the post and thus destroyed the evidence that this all happened as I describe.

[EdgeleyRob]

Very strange.
I'm sure I saw both your posts after mine at some point.

[The_Student]

Agreed. I wish we could go Bach to the future.

[The_Student]

it is quite fascinating, the little jokes Bach put into his music-take his works from his time in koethen- the number 3 and 7 always crops up!

[anamnesis]

it is quite fascinating, the little jokes Bach put into his music-take his works from his time in koethen- the number 3 and 7 always crops up!

Well, Bach was a sophisticated rebel. :-) In Köthen he was not allowed to compose sacre music. So he put some christian symbolic (coded as numbers) into his works (eg the Brandenburg Concerts). I'm sure he was amused that his boss was not aware of this. :-)

[The_Student]

Well, Bach was a sophisticated rebel. :-) In Köthen he was not allowed to compose sacre music. So he put some christian symbolic (coded as numbers) into his works (eg the Brandenburg Concerts). I'm sure he was amused that his boss was not aware of this. :-)

haha excellent!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Unmissabler and Unmissabler

Canzona in D minor. BWV588

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-588/

A six-and-a-half minute treat this week - played by Dorien Schouten on the larger of the two organs of the Bovenkerk in Kampen, Holland, dating (in its present form) from 1743.

[edashtav]

Beautifully relaxed and poised performance of this artful jewel in the classical tradition. thanks.