Something for a Friday: All of Bach

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just finished listening to St John Passion. Leaving aside any emotional response, it was a pleasure to view these performers interpreting this music and these words.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Prelude & Fugue in G, BWV 860

After last week's extended edition, this week we're in Cologne for four minutes to hear harpsichordist Ketil Haugsand play #15 from Book One of "The 48".

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-860/

[Padraig]

After last week's extended edition, this week we're in Cologne for four minutes to hear harpsichordist Ketil Haugsand play #15 from Book One of "The 48".

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-860/

Excellent - though a harpsichord.

[EdgeleyRob]

Thanks as always ferney

[bluestateprommer]

Some light reading on JSB from the NYT for this thread:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/arts/music/bach-religion-music.html

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag", BWV629

"The glorious day has arrived" - an Easter hymn, but, at 57 seconds, it's a short day! Is this the shortest video yet published by AoB. Still, the quality should give solace - or solstice.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-629/

Bart at Bavo's once again, recorded over eighteen months ago (I think the longest time between a recording and its appearance on the website).

[EdgeleyRob]

Many thanks ferney

[hmvman]

That must've been quite a recording session, ferney, given the number of pieces we've had from it so far.

[hmvman]

After last week's extended edition, this week we're in Cologne for four minutes to hear harpsichordist Ketil Haugsand play #15 from Book One of "The 48".

An entertaining interview, too, from a very experienced musician. Ketil Haugsand made some very interesting observations about performance and especially about performing from the heart and not the book. My choir's MD is always on at us about that...!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Toccata in D major, BWV 912

Joyously exhilarating, and superbly played by French harpsichordist, Bertrand Cuiller, recorded in the Bartolotti House, Amsterdam last May.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-912/

For all the accompanying programme notes' comments about the young composer having "one foot firmly in the Seventeenth Century", it occurs to me that the rest of his anatomy looks forward the later Eighteenth Century; this is essentially a three movement Sonata quasi una Fantasia with the "movements" linked by two recitatives.

[EdgeleyRob]

Marvellous,thanks again ferney

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

'cello Suite in C, BWV 1009

Wow! I had this playing without looking at the video and thought it was excellently played - when I saw that Reinier Wink looked about twelve-years old*, I was deeply impressed. On this evidence, this is one of the great players of the future.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-1009/

Recorded six months ago in The Loft, Amsterdam (part of the A'dam Tower complex), which looks a bit drier than the cellar we heard for the last Suite a few months ago.


* - my bad; he's all of Fourteen! When he was eleven, he did this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10RsAyq7P5M

... Young Musician of the Year, watch this video, and weep!

[EdgeleyRob]

Blimey he is incredible,many thanks as always ferney.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Orchestral Suite #4 in D major, BWV 1069

Pared down in this performance to restore the (?hypothesized?) original scoring without Trumpets and Timps. As a former Timpanist, my spirits rebelled when I read this, but the resulting sound is remarkably successful - and it does mean an extra quarter-hour in the pub, I suppose!

Performed by an ensemble of sixteen players, led by harpsichordist Lars Ulrik Mortensen, and recorded last October in the now-familiar Contemporary Music venue, the Muziegebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam.

http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-1069/

[vinteuil]

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... sadly - either they have changed the formatting - or my li'l chromebook is no longer strong enuff - but I can no longer easily catch these : the wheel indicating 'loading' just goes round-and-round-and-round.

Happily I have an ancient pc which still works - and mme v has a newer and even more powerful machine which does the trick...

[ ... ooh matron! ]

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