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Nothing new so far this week - perhaps they've moved to fortnightly postings?
Or perhaps they've changed tack? The Youtube version has twice weekly offerings. I wonder if the allofbach.com is now more of an archive - or treasury as this from the Youtube site has it
High quality recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, released every Tuesday and Thursday for music lovers worldwide, in Full HD, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and her guest musicians. Visit our online treasury for more video’s and background information: allofbach.com, free available for everyone.
Or perhaps they've changed tack? The Youtube version has twice weekly offerings. I wonder if the allofbach.com is now more of an archive - or treasury as this from the Youtube site has it
I don't think so - the BWV 814 French Suite posted on youTube yesterday is a recording from 2015 that first appeared on the "main" AofB website on 11th August, 2017 - as posted in #532 on this Thread.
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Short and sublime at just 1min 35secs - a brand-new video recorded in February this year in the Great Church in the North Holland city of Alkmaar. Quite a large choir - 6VpP - conducted by Tenor/baritone Christoph Prégardien:
Bach seems to have had quite a preference for this chorale 'Jesu, meine Freude', here performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach. It appears i...
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Many thanks for that, Edgey - what a performance! What the late Ken Dodd might have described as "a quick burst on me banjo" ("By Jove! I needed that!").
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A bit of a change this week - instead of a single work, seven teenaged students who took part in Shunkse Sato's masterclass on the Bach solo violin works this Spring each perform a single movement from them:
... fantastic to see and hear these remarkably young Musicians introduced to Baroque playing methods and instruments, and with such excellent results!
But - if all this feels a wee bit Essential Classic-sy, then "normal service" is resumed when the maestro himself plays the complete Sonata in g minor, BWV 1001:
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