Today is Special

[gamba]

There have been a few occasions when I have wished to give thanks for surviving illness or accident. Having no religious belief poses a problem. The answer came unexpectedly when, returning home from an overlong stay in hospital, I looked to music for consolation. I went through a wide selection, nothing seemed to work & that even included the 'late' Beethoven quartets. Ultimately, when all else had failed, I found myself being uplifted & reborn as I soaked in the life-affirming sounds from the cantatas etc. by this great man, J.S. Bach.

Today I gave thanks by ' murdering ' the easy bits from the 1st. & 3rd. cello suites !

Why ?

Because today we should be celebrating his birthday, the 21st. March 1685.

[Nick Armstrong]

There have been a few occasions when I have wished to give thanks for surviving illness or accident. Having no religious belief poses a problem. The answer came unexpectedly when, returning home from an overlong stay in hospital, I looked to music for consolation. I went through a wide selection, nothing seemed to work & that even included the 'late' Beethoven quartets. Ultimately, when all else had failed, I found myself being uplifted & reborn as I soaked in the life-affirming sounds from the cantatas etc. by this great man, J.S. Bach.

Today I gave thanks by ' murdering ' the easy bits from the 1st. & 3rd. cello suites !

Why ?

Because today we should be celebrating his birthday, the 21st. March 1685.

A great reminder, gamba!!

My 'murder' victim shall be an 'easy' prelude & fugue from the 48

[amateur51]

A great reminder, gamba!!

Thirded, gamba & Cali!

[french frank]

Well, now, there's a thing. I log in to see this thread at the top of the list. And what am I listening to? A CD I was recently given of the Brandenburg Concertos (OAE).

Here's to him!

[VodkaDilc]

A great reminder, gamba!!

My 'murder' victim shall be an 'easy' prelude & fugue from the 48

Are any of them easy? Easy to play the notes, perhaps............ but that's only the beginning!

[Bryn]

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...013#post143013 et seq

[Nick Armstrong]

Are any of them easy? Easy to play the notes, perhaps............ but that's only the beginning!

okay okay vodka!! rain on my birthday parade, why don't you?!





I suppose I mean one of the two I can stumble my way through...

[VodkaDilc]

okay okay vodka!! rain on my birthday parade, why don't you?!





I suppose I mean one of the two I can stumble my way through...

Of course JSB fools us by putting the one with the easiest notes (perhaps) at the beginning. I'm sure your interpretations are excellent, Caliban. Didn't Mr Heath, when in Downing Street, go home after a busy day ruling the country and play the C major (Bk1) Prelude on his Steinway? Imagine his present day successor doing anything remotely similar! (On second thoughts, EH might have played the prelude on his clavichord. Would any of the present lot even know what a clavichord is?)

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm sure your interpretations are excellent, Caliban.

Don't be!!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

words fail

[John Wright]

Well, now, there's a thing. I log in to see this thread at the top of the list. And what am I listening to? A CD I was recently given of the Brandenburg Concertos (OAE).

Here's to him!

Found myself whistling a Brandenburg movement this afternoon, for no reason at all, and I'm still wondering what triggered it as I'm sure it was a movement from the 6th, the least known to me. Don't ask me to whistle it now as I can't remember...... doesn't the brain play weird tricks? I'll get a CD/LP out tomorrow.

[Chris Newman]

Of course JSB fools us by putting the one with the easiest notes (perhaps) at the beginning. I'm sure your interpretations are excellent, Caliban. Didn't Mr Heath, when in Downing Street, go home after a busy day ruling the country and play the C major (Bk1) Prelude on his Steinway? Imagine his present day successor doing anything remotely similar! (On second thoughts, EH might have played the prelude on his clavichord. Would any of the present lot even know what a clavichord is?)

When he was PM Ted Heath remained in his flat in the Albany (in Piccadilly next to the Royal Academy). I worked in the Chemical Society (Now the Royal Society of Chemistry) Library. EH often used to return home at lunchtime and we could hear him playing Bach on his grand piano. In warm weather we could hear him as windows were open. Presumably he liked to switch of from politics. We never heard a clavichord. Mind you, they are not very loud.

[mangerton]

(On second thoughts, EH might have played the prelude on his clavichord. Would any of the present lot even know what a clavichord is?)

I doubt it. They'd probably think it was a bone.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I doubt it. They'd probably think it was a bone.

They'd be right cos evryone noe a clavicle is a little clavier. We dun latin diminutives!

[Vile Consort]

When he was PM Ted Heath remained in his flat in the Albany (in Piccadilly next to the Royal Academy). I worked in the Chemical Society (Now the Royal Society of Chemistry) Library. EH often used to return home at lunchtime and we could hear him playing Bach on his grand piano. In warm weather we could hear him as windows were open. Presumably he liked to switch of from politics. We never heard a clavichord. Mind you, they are not very loud.

I hope he managed to get past the C major in Book I. As an ex Oxford organ scholar he ought to have been able to play the lot!