Something for a Friday: All of Bach

[Padraig]

Lovely performance, great ensemble, beautiful Bach.

O Herzensangst, o Bangigkeit und Zagen! – Bach

[Mandryka]

The music of dread, as of a passenger on Charon's ferry across the Styx.

Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir – Bach

“Bach envelops us in a sonorous six-part hair shirt – interwoven with successive parts of a chorale melody, and embroidered with plaintive motifs and moments of harmonic despair.”


(Never got on with this prelude in nearly every performance I’ve heard, I find it overbearing. )

[oddoneout]

It has worked again! Hope this continues. I have been to a lunchtime organ recital so shall delay listening for now.

[Padraig]

The music of dread, as of a passenger on Charon's ferry across the Styx.

Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir – Bach

[Padraig]

Christine Schornsheim continuing Well Tempered Clavier II Nos 19,20 in A Major, A Minor.

Today a rousing Cantata, Tue Rechnung! Donnwewort.* Account for yourself! Thunderous words indeed.

After some breastbeating and comforting assurances, there comes the advice to Mammon to account for himself as well. I take it that he should redistributed his riches fairly. Some hope
* correct title

O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort – Bach

[Padraig]

Christine Schornsheim continuing Well Tempered Clavier II Nos 19,20 in A Major, A Minor.

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-889

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-889

[Padraig]

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-97

JSB and the Netherlands Bach Society never fail. Well, hardly ever. Somebody left Lucia Swarts out of the credits, and such a good cello part - and cellist.

[Padraig]

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-887

Lost in admiration for both JSB and CS. Beautifully filmed.

[Padraig]

. I note in passing that Masako Awaji's sunglasses evaded the continuity editor.

Yes, now I see it.

[Hitch]

Sorry Hitch. I fell by the wayside again. But maybe there is a chorale* to cover that?

This one expresses its message so beautifully, reminding me that I love the harmony in Bach's chorales*. Here especially the arrangement of voices and instruments is just perfect. Lucky the congregation that has an ensemble like this.

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-430

* Please note the correction - to 'chorale', from 'motet'.

Lovely stuff. The soprano line floats beautifully over the quite dense sound of the ensemble. I note in passing that Masako Awaji's sunglasses evaded the continuity editor.

[Padraig]

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-641

A penny has dropped. When I was an ignorant boy at boarding school I occasionally, in my free time before study, went into the college chapel where I discovered that one of my least liked teachers played the organ. Music was not on the curriculum and I was largely ignorant of the body of classical music. I had an ear though and I enjoyed his meanderings on the organ which seemed clever to me and encouraged me to hope to hear more in the future. Tonight I heard this Bach organ prelude, and both the style and the duration of the piece brought me back in time. That maths teacher went up in my estimation, but I wish it had been possible then for a pupil to ask a question.

[Padraig]

Hey! There's a hooley for St.Patricks Day over in Utrecht. They have a hot quartet playing.

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-1021

[Padraig]

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-1046

A 'bleeding chunk'? To the ramparts!

[Padraig]

Is mise aris. or C'est encore moi. It's me again - ain't nobody else here. Good one today. 3 oboes for battle cry? Like uileann pipes? If there is ever a local request to sing in the chorus for this Bach piece . . .

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-80

[Padraig]

That should bring things up to date. Apologies for any double posting, etc.

Sorry Hitch. I fell by the wayside again. But maybe there is a chorale* to cover that?

This one expresses its message so beautifully, reminding me that I love the harmony in Bach's chorales*. Here especially the arrangement of voices and instruments is just perfect. Lucky the congregation that has an ensemble like this.

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-430

* Please note the correction - to 'chorale', from 'motet'.