Something for a Friday: All of Bach

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cantata BWV 34; "O Ewiges Feuer"

"Oh eternal fire, oh source of Love" - Bach does the Bangles!

(Sorry - I went all "Clemmie" there )

For some reason, the AoB essaylette accompanying the performance spends more time hypothesising about the wedding cantata (BWV 34a) from which this Cantata originates than it does on what is actually performed! (Anyone would think that there was some celebrity wedding happening this weekend or something.)

No matter, as always, the performance of this gorgeous 17 minute work more than makes up for all the deficiencies of the "programme notes". Jos van Veldhoven leads the Netherlands Bach Society forces in a performance given in Amsterdam's Walloon Church a year and a week ago.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-34/

[JimD]

O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe BWV 34

Another lovely cantata this Friday morning.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe BWV 34

Another lovely cantata this Friday morning (apparently for a wedding or Whitsuntide).

- the Whitsun version is what's performed here; appropriately enough as Sunday is Whitsunday. (Something mentioned in van Veldhoven's accompanying talk - but even he spends a bit of time talking about the Wedding version!)

[JimD]

I confess I'd forgotten about the wedding. No, really. Apologies for the overlap.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

- no need for the "apologies", Jim: I think of it as a "confirmation" rather than an "overlap"

[EdgeleyRob]

Thanks x 2 ferney,only just caught up with last week

[Padraig]

The Philip Larkin Cantata?

Everything in order - the imperturbable Lucia Swarts in control!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Philip Larkin Cantata?

- wish I'd thought of that!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Fantasia & Fugue in a minor, BWV

Recorded in February of last year by Francesco Corti in the now-familiar Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-904/

A new work to me.

[EdgeleyRob]

Thanks ferney.
Funnily enough I was listening to Sokolov in BWV 904 only yesterday

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Suite in f minor, BWV 823

... in thee movements: Prelude, Sarabande, and Gigue. Played by harpsichordist, Ketil Haugsand, and recorded in his home in Cologne in February 2017.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-823/

[EdgeleyRob]

Thanks as always ferney

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Nice place, isn't it - but I couldn't help wondering how many people crack their skulls on the bookcase immediately above the settee?

[EdgeleyRob]

Nice place, isn't it - but I couldn't help wondering how many people crack their skulls on the bookcase immediately above the settee?

[JimD]

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-6/

Ahhh.....just the thing for our fractious times.