Something for a Friday: All of Bach

[Padraig]

Yes I caught this. 'Aplomb' is the word and 'harmonic seasoning' the means.

[EdgeleyRob]

Many thanks ferney

15 days left to hear a few more "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr"s

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08slwj2

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

15 days left to hear a few more "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr"s
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08slwj2

Oh - good call!

[hmvman]

Blimey.

With apologies to Padraig and anyone else experiencing problems accessing the longer works - we need to set aside 1hr 48mins this week.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-232/

Just finished watching/listening to this. Just exquisite! I haven't quite come down to earth yet.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Motet: "Komm, Jesu, komm, mein Leib ist müde" BWV229

"Come, Jesus, come: my body is exhausted and my strength diminishes more and more" - a seven-and-a-half minute Motet for double choir, performed in the Great Church of the Dutch town of Naarden by the Netherlands Bach Society, with lavish continuo "support", conducted by Stephan MacLeod. (Vocal forces: two choirs each of 4, 3, 3, 3 voices. Very "adult-sounding", and carefully "projected" and enunciated, as is so often the wont of performers in these works, producing a very pleasant, sweetly-sounded, and "professional" performance.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-229/

[EdgeleyRob]

Thanks ferney

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Chorale Prelude "Wie schön leucht uns der Morgenstern", BWV739

A five-minute flourish on a favourite hymn tune by the young Bach (late teens/early twenties) played on the 1731 Treutmann organ at the Collegiate Church of St George in Goslar, Lower Saxony by Theo Jellema, recorded a couple of years ago. (The earliest manuscript of a Bach work there is, it seems.)

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-739/

[EdgeleyRob]

Marvellous,thanks ferney

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cantata BWV159 - "Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem"

"Sithee - Let's Go Up to Jerusalem". More marvellousness this week - a rather wonderful performance of this Cantata recorded last October in the Walloon Church in Amsterdam, the vocal and orchestral ensemble is conducted by Jos van Veldhoven.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-159/

(Incidentally, the sudden emergence of the extra voices for the final chorale - looking for all the world as if they've arrived late - underlines the evidence that the Cantatas are OVpP works: why on earth would the composer have two-thirds/three-quarters of his elite choir silent for an entire work apart from the last minute?!)

[EdgeleyRob]

Marvellous indeed,many thanks ferney.

This from the attached info is as clear as mud to me

We are performing this cantata with just four singers. They all have solos, and the piece closes with a final chorale sung altogether. In some performances, extra singers join in with a four-part finale like this, creating a small choir. We do not know what Bach himself did, as he gives no indication of how many singers he wanted to use.
In this performance, we have opted for four soloists. This makes the lines more expressive and you hear more detail. “For a two or three-part section in Bach’s music, nobody would think of using more voices for each part. But if there are four parts, then it suddenly has to become a choir. I think the decision to use just four singers is well justified for a cantata like this, which does not involve many instruments”, says artistic director and conductor

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Hold on to Your Seats! BWV598

The exuberant "Pedal Exercise", which I can't remember ever hearing before, and which I've certainly never seen performed!

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-598/

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Some impressive Boto-Fogos and Fleckerls from Matthias Havingaball, there. "Unfinished"? Sounded perfectly formed as it is to me; unless lacking the five remaining movements of a Suite?

[EdgeleyRob]

The exuberant "Pedal Exercise", which I can't remember ever hearing before, and which I've certainly never seen performed!

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-598/

Thanks as always ferney,what a strange thing to watch though.
Sez here it's not by JSB,or am I being dim ?

http://imslp.org/wiki/Pedal-Exercitium,_BWV_598_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sez here it's not by JSB,or am I being dim ?
http://imslp.org/wiki/Pedal-Exerciti...ann_Sebastian)

"Recent research* concludes that this fragment has been erroneously attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach (*Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Organ Works, edited by Annette Richards and David Yearsley, Los Altos (California), The Packard Humanities Institute, 2008.)"

Yes - this suggests that Richards & Yearsley concluded that it should rather be attributed to CPE rather than JS. I haven't encountered their reasons for their conclusions, nor does it appear to have attracted much comment - at least not online. Apparently, Pierre Gouin also accepts the attribution to CPE.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Prelude & Fugue in F, BWV856

The Eleventh pair from the First Book of Das wohltemperierte Klavier. Wonderful - no doubt some impurists would prefer some kind of modern orchestration, but the nasty, elitist HIPPy purists love it just the way it is.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-856/