Something for a Friday: All of Bach

[Padraig]

Excellent notes for this programme. The interviews said it all - a big production. Nothing left but a hearty Bravo! for Benny Aghassi.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Prelude & Fugue in g# minor, "W-TC" Bk 1, #18, BWV 863

A new video, recorded a year ago, and played at his Belgian home by Korneel Bernolet.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-863/

[Edgy 2]

Lovely piece and very enjoyable interview.
The usual thanks ferney.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Concerto in G for solo Organ BWV 592

An arrangement of a Concerto for Violin, strings, and Continuo by Johann Ernst von Saksen-Weimar, a minor noble and the nephew of Bach's employer in Weimar. JEvS-W was a fan of Vivaldi's Music - and Bach's "arrangement" of his work brings out the zest he himself felt by the Italian's work. Everything by Bach with the word "Concerto" in the title is an unalloyed joy - and this, written in his twenties, is no exception.

A repeat video, recorded five years ago, and first published in 2015; Leo van Doeselaar plays the Muller organ in Amsterdam's Walloon Church (an instrument built a little later than when Bach wrote the piece).

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-592/

[Edgy 2]

Thanks ferney

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Orchestral Suite #3 in D, BWV 1068

An earlier version, before Bach decided to add woodwinds and brass - the result from this Dodectet of strings and harpsichord is fascinating: and a little unsetting in the way the Music is both familiar and yet ... not. Brecht would have loved this!

Lars Ulrik Mortensen directs from the keyboard, recorded at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam 18 months ago, and newly published today.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-1068/

[Padraig]

Great stuff - even better without the brass and woodwind. No shrieking trumpets.

[Edgy 2]

Fantastic,thanks Ferney

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cantata BWV 54, "Widerstehe doch der Sünde"

"Resist Sin"! For solo Alto, sung here by Maarten Engeltjes, with orchestra drawn from the Netherlands Bach Society, directed from the harpsichord by Lars Ulrik Mortensen. Another repeat performance from the "archives", this one recorded over five years ago, and first published on the AoB website in July, 2014.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-54/

[edashtav]

Thank you, ferney: how could the Devil resist the sheer drive to oust him?
Every " man in a grey suit" should carry a copy.

[Edgy 2]

Thanks ferney.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

BWV 500 - "So gehst du nun, mein Jesu, hin"

A sacred song for domestic performance, taking the form of a dialogue between Christ and the Soul of the Sinner. A new video of a work I don't think I've ever heard before, recorded just over a year ago in the Bartolotti House in Amsterdam.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-500/

[Edgy 2]

Thanks as always ferney

Don't think I've heard this either but then there's a lot of JSB I don't know yet.
I will listen later.

[cloughie]

A sacred song for domestic performance, taking the form of a dialogue between Christ and the Soul of the Sinner. A new video of a work I don't think I've ever heard before, recorded just over a year ago in the Bartolotti House in Amsterdam.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-500/

The title looks like German-Geordie!

[Padraig]

A sacred song for domestic performance

Very well performed, with a good sense for the listener of what is going on, even without a translation. We have to imagine the domestic element though, which I think was hinted at in the interview, as this was a very professional and enjoyable, if formal, presentation.