Today is very good value. First a spectacular and enjoyable piece for organ. Then the Francophobe tale of brave Bach versus the cowardly French organist (maybe apocryphal or over-egged)? We were then introduced to the new (to me) and charming Zymbelstern stop. And finally the most amusing headphones I have seen. Perfect!
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Bach - Chaconne from partita no. 2 in d minor BWV 1004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcy7...SN4jlc&index=2
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Originally posted by Pianorak View PostBach - Chaconne from partita no. 2 in d minor BWV 1004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcy7...SN4jlc&index=2
Many, many thanks for this, Pianorak - a superb performance of a work that by coincidence I've been listening to a lot in the past week. Ms Smits' performance not only makes an eloquent case for performing the work on (8-stringed) Guitar, but makes a far better job than many a Violinist.
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. . . and many a pianist.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post . . . makes a far better job than many a Violinist. 
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ALL of 'em!Originally posted by Pianorak View Post. . . and many a pianist.
My life, each morning when I brew a
Cup of tea,
Is four and twenty hours fewer
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Quite amazing. Ms Smits new to me, I'm ashamed to say. I've heard many performances on the guitar, this is the best. Her instrument appears to be her (French) 1827 Mirecourt, though it appears to have had one or two more modifications since these photos. Remarkable - musicality aside, other pluckers will have noticed the astonishing flexibility of her left hand....Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post Many, many thanks for this, Pianorak - a superb performance of a work that by coincidence I've been listening to a lot in the past week. Ms Smits' performance not only makes an eloquent case for performing the work on (8-stringed) Guitar, but makes a far better job than many a Violinist. Comment
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Cantata BWV 65; "Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen"
"They all will come from Sheba" - an Epiphany Cantata from 1724, early in Bach's career in Leipzig.
Another of Jos van Veldhoven's personal favourites, here conducted by Hans-Christoph Rademann, recorded in January 2016, and first published by AoB on, appropriately, 6th January last year.
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Missa Brevis in g minor, BWV 235
A ThVpP performance recorded four years ago in the Great Church in Naarden, conducted by retiring Netherlands Bach Society director, Jos van Veldhoven himself.
Bach's "pocket Masses" understandably don't receive the attention of the B minor Mass, but they are wonderful works which deserve to be much, much better known than they are even by certain individuals who claim to be Bach enthusiasts
This is a terrific performance
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Cantata BWV 86; "Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch"
"Verily, I say unto you" - a OVpP performance recorded in January 2017 in the Walloon Church in Amsterdam, and directed by violinist (here the fifth soloist) Shunske Sato. Marvellous piece, joyful performance - the weekend begins here.
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Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G major, BWV 1049
A repeat from three years ago, but not one of the Jos van Veldhoven "farewell" tributes - is the All of Bach project having financial difficulties continuing?
Shunske Sato directs the Netherlands Bach Society in a performance recorded in the Concert Hall of Felix Meritis - not, as I'd thought, the name of the chap who owned the building, but the Latin for "Happy through Merit" (?"Because You're Worth It"?) - in Amsterdam. Some phrasing that struck me as "affected" pepper an otherwise scintillating performance.
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Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D major, BWV 1050
No(t necessarily), because this week's opfer is a "new release", recorded four months ago in the Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam. Violinist Shunske Sato again leads the soloists Netherlands Bach Ensemble, Marten Root plays Flute, - and look who's playing the Harpsichord part!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
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The camera people have had fun - some shots move from angles where you can see the Live audience responding to the Music, to those where it looks as if the faces in The Night Watch are similarly absorbed! (At several points the chap with the red sash seems to be pointing to Sato and saying to the disbelieving chap in white "There! I told you some Baroque violinists use shoulder pads!")[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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