Something for a Friday: All of Bach

[hmvman]

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/

Interesting, and enjoyable alternative version but I still love the version with trumpets. I found it very hard to listen to this performance without hearing the trumpet parts in my head!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Interesting, and enjoyable alternative version but I still love the version with trumpets. I found it very hard to listen to this performance without hearing the trumpet parts in my head!

- it's a bit like "don't think of an elephant", isn't it!

[verismissimo]

Just acquired Hilary Hahn's first solo Bach CD (recorded 1996-97) - Partitas 2 and 3 and Sonata 3.

What truly great music. And what a great player she is.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Chorale Fantasia on "Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott" BWV 651

Big, powerful, & energetic stuff for Pentecost! Played by Leo van Doeselaar on the recently restored* organ of the Lutheran Church of St Catherine in Hamburg (the original of which had been destroyed by the RAF in Operation Gomorrah in July, 1943). A repeat video, first published in February, 2016.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-651/

* - the performance was recorded in October, 2014; the restoration completed the year before. A useful article from 2005 when they'd decided to start the restoration work (so no need to follow up the request for donations to fund it at the end):

https://www.thediapason.com/bach%E2%80%94-very-special-organ-st-catherine%E2%80%99s-church-hamburg

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just acquired Hilary Hahn's first solo Bach CD (recorded 1996-97) - Partitas 2 and 3 and Sonata 3.
What truly great music. And what a great player she is.

[Edgy 2]

Many thanks as always ferney

[hmvman]

- it's a bit like "don't think of an elephant", isn't it!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cantata BWV 105; "Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht"

From Psalm 143 "O Lord, enter not into judgement" (and not the Google "Lord, do not go into court", with its hints of tennis). A new video recorded in February last year in the Walloon Church in Amsterdam; a 3VpP performance conducted by Jos van Veldhoven.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-105/

[hmvman]

From Psalm 143 "O Lord, enter not into judgement" (and not the Google "Lord, do not go into court", with its hints of tennis). A new video recorded in February last year in the Walloon Church in Amsterdam; a 3VpP performance conducted by Jos van Veldhoven.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-105/

A wonderful new discovery for me. That soprano aria with the plaintive oboe and shimmering strings is quite breathtaking. A masterstroke of direction at the end with the shot of the conductor's hand. First class!

[Edgy 2]

A wonderful new discovery for me. That soprano aria with the plaintive oboe and shimmering strings is quite breathtaking. A masterstroke of direction at the end with the shot of the conductor's hand. First class!

and thank you ferney

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Chorale Prelude "Wir glauben all an einen Gott" BWV 680

"We All Believe in One God"; a repeat video first published almost exactly five years ago, and recorded in November, 2013 by Reitze Smits on the 1762 Bätz organ of the Lutheran Church in the Hague.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-680/

[Padraig]

I won't be vague - it doesn't pedal MY canoe.

[Edgy 2]

Many thanks ferney

You can’t win ‘em all Padraig

[edashtav]

Many thanks ferney

You can’t win ‘em all Padraig

Yes, indeed: pure musical and contrapuntal muscle without a trace of fat.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G, BWV 1048

A "reprint" of a fairly recent video this week - from October 2017. Shunske Sato leads a group of eleven players - but if ever a work demonstrated what the often overused epithet "evergreen" really means ...

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-1048/