Something for a Friday: All of Bach

[Quarky]

One of those "let's pop in on this performer and see what they're playing today" videos; and another good 'un. Belgian Harpsichordist, Kris Verhelst, recorded at her home six months ago:

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-867/

From Book One of "The Forty-Eight" - which gave the world greater riches than the 'forty-niners, Clementine.

[Quarky]

The solo organ Trio Sonatas (so named because there are three distinct "voices" shared between hands and feet) are my favourite works for Organ. Not so sure about the leisurely stroll conception of "Andante" here (I much prefer John Butt's brisker excursions - gives a sprightlier spring to the step than we have here) but it's still lovely:

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-527/

[EdgeleyRob]

One of those "let's pop in on this performer and see what they're playing today" videos; and another good 'un. Belgian Harpsichordist, Kris Verhelst, recorded at her home six months ago:

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-867/

From Book One of "The Forty-Eight" - which gave the world greater riches than the 'forty-niners, Clementine.

Thanks ferney.
Nice gaff,nice collection of keyboard instruments too

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A gentle three-minute wind-down after the rush-hour queues to get home - the Chorale Prelude Vater unser im Himmelreich BWV737, recorded last September by Bart Jacobs on the organ of St Bavo's Church in Haarlem.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-737/

[EdgeleyRob]

A gentle three-minute wind-down after the rush-hour queues to get home - the Chorale Prelude Vater unser im Himmelreich BWV737, recorded last September by Bart Jacobs on the organ of St Bavo's Church in Haarlem.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-737/

Thanks as always

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The "little-known" (by which I mean that I can't remember ever having heard it before -which is embarrassing, because the "release" date suggests that this video was first shown last December!) keyboard Fugue in C major, BWV952, played last September on one of his two harpsichords at his home in France by harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-952/

(I can't help wondering if the performers givve their places a good "Spring" cleaning before the cameras arrive for these gigs? Because of various books, piles of CDs, mugs, and folders, there isn't space on the floor of any of the rooms in my house for any passing film crew - and I don't even own a harpsichord! )

[teamsaint]

The "little-known" (by which I mean that I can't remember ever having heard it before -which is embarrassing, because the "release" date suggests that this video was first shown last December!) keyboard Fugue in C major, BWV952, played last September on one of his two harpsichords at his home in France by harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-952/

(I can't help wondering if the performers givve their places a good "Spring" cleaning before the cameras arrive for these gigs? Because of various books, piles of CDs, mugs, and folders, there isn't space on the floor of any of the rooms in my house for any passing film crew - and I don't even own a harpsichord! )

No problem.
"It's easy to lease a harpsichord." .....apparently.

http://www.claviersbaroques.com/CBInstrumentsLease.htm

......If you have $3k to put down and $145 a month over 5 years.

A snip.

[vinteuil]

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... thanks as ever. A work I hadn't listened to in ages. Many moons ago I had a crush on a work colleague who was not, I thought, at all my type - she was in to sports and suchlike - and one evening she was chez moi (innocently: working late on a project) : lo and behold, she sat down at my harpsichord, picked out this very fugue, and played it. My flabber has seldom been so ghasted.

Re harpsichords. I sold mine three years ago. Sad to see it go, but also a bit of a relief - the endless re-tuning / maintenance issues had made it a bit of a millstone


I see that Chevreuse is still as dank as I recall it ...

[hmvman]

[QUOTE=ferneyhoughgeliebte;614068]...because the "release" date suggests that this video was first shown last December!]

I wonder if that's a typo as the 16th December release was WTC No. 24, BWV 869.

[vinteuil]

(I can't help wondering if the performers givve their places a good "Spring" cleaning before the cameras arrive for these gigs? Because of various books, piles of CDs, mugs, and folders, there isn't space on the floor of any of the rooms in my house for any passing film crew - and I don't even own a harpsichord!)

... I like the fact that, subconsciously, in his deepest heart, our ferney is actually awaiting the cameras for his contribution to the Bach project

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I wonder if that's a typo as the 16th December release was WTC No. 24, BWV 869.

Thanks for that, hmvman - I suspected that it might have been as you say, but hadn't got round to checking.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... I like the fact that, subconsciously, in his deepest heart, our ferney is actually awaiting the cameras for his contribution to the Bach project

"My left profile ... left!!! Oh - and mind that mug, it's still got some ... still had some coffee in it ... and the sound man has just trodden on my Barbara Strozzi collection!"

[EdgeleyRob]

The "little-known" (by which I mean that I can't remember ever having heard it before -which is embarrassing, because the "release" date suggests that this video was first shown last December!) keyboard Fugue in C major, BWV952, played last September on one of his two harpsichords at his home in France by harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-952/

(I can't help wondering if the performers givve their places a good "Spring" cleaning before the cameras arrive for these gigs? Because of various books, piles of CDs, mugs, and folders, there isn't space on the floor of any of the rooms in my house for any passing film crew - and I don't even own a harpsichord! )

Thanks ferney.
I wish we'd had a close up of his cd shelves seeing as he had gone to the trouble of tidying them away.
I like to have a nosey.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Chorale Prelude, "Herzlich tut mich Verlangen", BWV727

Looking towards the end of Passiontide with this week's short (under 3mins) Musical offering: a Chorale Prelude based on a melody that was also used by Bach in both the St Matthew Passion and the Christmas Oratorio. "With all my heart I long for a blessed end" (?"the blessing of my death - after a traumatic life"?)

Played by Bart Jacobs on the Organ of St Baavo's Church in Haarlem in the Netherlands, recorded last September.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-727/

[hmvman]

Sigiswald Kuijken leads a performance recorded in April of this Cantata, first performed in Leipzig on 5th February, 1723.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-23/

I'm still playing catch-up with a lot of these performances (and what a joy it is!). This one's interesting for the use of the small violoncello in the continuo. I'm also intrigued that Kuijken leads from the back as it were. As a matter of interest how do the performers (particularly the solo singers) get their cues when the leader/director is behind them?