Something for a Friday: All of Bach

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"God's Time is the Best" - another repeat (this one originally posted on 4th March, 2016) ... but this is so good, I'm not really complaining.

Sheer bliss.

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Toccata & Fugue in d minor, BWV 565

... for me a "brand-new" work which I don't think I've ever heard before, and can't recollect ever encountering before, come to that.

Well - that can't be said this week!

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-565/

("All of Bach" even if it isn't by Bach ... ?)

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Sanctus in D, BWV 238

A short burst of exuberance to end November, recorded in Amsterdam's Walloon Church back in February and "published" for the first time today. Jos van Veldhoven conducts this 3VpP performance.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-238/

(I love the way violinist Lidewij van der Voort looks as if she's having the best time of her life! )

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Viola da Gamba Sonata in D, BWV 1028

Lovely performance, I think, of a work I only got to know when this recording was first published on the AoB website two-and-a-half years ago. Mieneke van der Velden and Benjamin Alard perform this Sonata da Chiesa in the Paushuize* in Utrecht.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-1028/

(* - the "Pope's House", so called because it was built for Adriaan Floriszoon Boeyens, who'd hoped to live there when he'd finished his duties as a Cardinal in Spain. The little matter of his being elected Pope put paid to his plans, and he never actually set foot in his - rather splendid - house in his home town.)

https://www.huizemolenaar.nl/portal/en/paushuize-en/

[Dave2002]

Well - that can't be said this week!

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-565/

("All of Bach" even if it isn't by Bach ... ?)

Who is it by, then? What's the best guess?

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Who is it by, then? What's the best guess?

Depends who you ask:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565#Attribution_question

[Bryn]

One of my favourite 'solutions':

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I am particularly attracted to the idea that it originates as a work for solo Violin, as, when I was 14, I made my own "arrangement" for solo violin, which I couldn't play, but which I could tell "fitted" the instrument rather well.

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Cantata BWV 40; "Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes"

"For this was the Son of God Revealed" - a Cantata for St Stephen's Day, originally published on the AoB site 51 weeks ago. A terrific work, performed here (3VpP) by the Netherlands Bach Society, conducted by Hans-Christoph Rademann, and recorded in the Great Church of the Netherlands coastal city of Harlingen.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-40/

[Beresford]

I will enjoy listening to this again on Christmas Morning.

[Keraulophone]

Dazu...

A work of sparkling word painting - serpents and hens. Wonderful.

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Dazu...

The Cantata's title does seem to be presented in both ways - I went with the AoB choice. (Dunno if this is any help: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...20dazu&f=false )

A work of sparkling word painting - serpents and hens. Wonderful.

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Cantata BWV 191: "Gloria in Excelsis Deo"

Better known from its use in the "B minor Mass" and originating in an earlier two-movement Mass, the work is performed here in its second incarnation, as an independent, three "movement" Christmas Cantata; the only one of Bach's Cantatas with a Latin text.

Another repeat, recorded three years ago and first published in the AoB project in 2016 - Jos van Veldhoven conducts the Netherlands Bach Society, like last week, in Naarden's Great Church.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-191/

[Keraulophone]

originating in an earlier two-movement Mass

Missa BWV 232 (Kyrie, Gloria) - a fine performance is included in the BaL library choice for JSB's Missae Breves, by Pygmalion.

He sent his Missa to Dresden with an accompanying letter, dated 27 July 1733, expressing his hope of obtaining an honorary position as Kapellmeister to the new prince-elector of Saxony Frederick Augustus II (subsequently king of Poland as Augustus III). Both the Missa and his letter show his deep desire for a future elsewhere, and a need for recognition, far from the struggles that were his daily lot in Leipzig. Bach’s petition did not meet with immediate success, but he did eventually get his title: he was made court composer to Augustus in 1736

from Raphaël Pichon's copious notes: https://outhere-music.com/uploads/bo...97.pdf?1.0.1.1

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