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You only need the first two notes and you know that this is WONDERFUL Bach.Rony, what is your "bitch" with Ophélies playing? I do not need always a "hysterically" correct reading or the virtuoso showing off everything they can.What I like about her p...
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Probably there is no other name so celebrated in the history of Music then Johann Sebastian Bach and today I will be playing his music all day long. Actually I can easily do it do it without his birthday…
Her is a wonderful picture of opening to pub...
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Hi Romy and JJTriode:
I wish I could take credit for all of the very pertinent commentary by Rosalyn Tureck, extracted below but I will not. I do agree with the sentiment though and the reasoning behind her expressed...
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When I first heard Scarlatti on a harpsichord it was a revelation. I found the tone, in its attack, to be almost like that of an electric guitar, and very energetic. I do not know to what degree this is inherent to the instrument, or how Scarlatti us...
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[quote user="zako"] I wold like to compose a symphony for a Hurricane [/quote] Yes, I know this feeling. I have a long desire to compose a musical piece for a percussion-loaded orchestra for snow falling to ground in a windless day. The Cat ...
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Good thought. Bach's music is like a model universe with it's own hell and heaven. And I can't figure out which is primary or secondary. Bach was the first composer who invented polyphony which reminds distant whisper of a rain drops. With ...
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Hi RomyDo you have favourite versions of these pieces preferably recorded in the last 50 yearsWould they be by the same pianist or does the Liszt require particular capabilities of the player perhaps not needed by the Chaconne.Excuse the absence of p...
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It is raining in Boston and I “inadvertently”, again, play Bach. It happens rain after rain…
Why when is raining I develop such a strong wave of affection to this composer, particularly to his keyboard music? Does the Bach’s organized pulse strictu...
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I sometime love to browse the old posts within my site. The site is 3 years old and it represents a little slice of “dairystic” history. Sometimes I found it entertaining to cruse in own record observing the triumphs and stupidities of my...
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Bach D Minor Piano concerto is probably the greatest Piano Concerto ever was composed and I have a mental problem with it. I had my favorite performances of Bach PC1… until I head Glenn Gould did it with Leonard Bernstein leading the Columbus Symphon...
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On the cover art she is dressed in slinky white dress with hand caressing cello, on CD she is dressed in emperor's new clothes. Too bad rostropovitch doesn't look good in underwear for the cover photo, but really whyndoes she need to record this. She...
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A friend of my told another day that with kind are long
nights but short years, it is amazingly accurate. In my family during those
long nights, regardless he reasons we spend time in the kid’s bedroom, we play
Bach. If it pretty much anything, wo...
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Bach 333 4-part Chorales, Vocalconsort Berlin Daniel Reuss
Deutsche Grammophon
UPC: 00028948360284
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Romy,You refer to the D minor concerto as a "piano concerto," but wasn't it originally composed for harpsichord, like all his other keyboard works? (Except organ of course.) Anyway, I have a harpsichord recording of the D minor with Sylvia Marlowe, ...
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Hi Romy,Yes great minds think alike! I made a note of a viola version of the suites I heard on the radio just a few weeks ago! It was a modern recording by patricia something and the first time I heard them played on viola and loved it, though i was...
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Hi JJ,I did get to listen to parts of it though before the "private link" restriction came up.It was certainly a more enjoyable recording than the Medici one.ThanksrgdsRakesh...
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Yep, this year was kind of different. The twins hit me like
much harder than the first child and to have “3 under 2” under the roof with
two parents having full time jobs is not fan at all. The new listening room was
the main new things but frankl...
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A strong second-recommendation of the 1977 Horowitz recording of the Liszt(RCA 12548 here in France). It is a superb sounding LP as well. For some reason I can't listen to anything Argerich lately, maybe it's because everytime I have ...
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[quote user="JANDL100"]I agree that a lot of the orchestral/choral music is pro-Soviet propaganda crap pumped out by a good, card carrying servant of the regime who is eager to please his political masters. [/quote] I have no problems with it if it w...
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Got today a shipment from Tokyo with the OS-106 record. It is the same Ormandy’s Bach with Philadelphia but pressed but Japan. It sounds even better. To hear it today is even more fun than ever. We have very windy but very warm day today and the New ...
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"To help him concentrate, Heisman often listened to a constant loop of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier,’’ which he felt synthesized the mind’s competing strains of emotion and reason…"
What he left behind: A 1,905-page suicide note
By...
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Sure his death has nothing to do with Bach but I have to agree that some Bach’s things have ”quite strange effect on the human mind when consumed excessively”. It associates for me with a novel I read years back in my teens. It was a science-fiction...
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Others have noted an analogy between some of Bach's music and the art of M. C. Escher, the originator of the "tri-prong" and other visual paradoxes. It's a certain "strangeness" that they have in common.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Ba...
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I love Alicia's touch on this record! On side 1 she plays the Italian Concerto and the French Suite #6 in E; on side 2 she plays the Fantasia in C Minor and the English Suite #2 in A Major.This stereo recording is very nice, too, to the point w...
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Hey, Guy.
The pre-Baltic countries are a nice place to be – quite interesting people in there, although thier women behave like they just were taken out of a freezer. :-) They kind of facially less-reactive and less-responsive than the girls-souther...
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No matter what you say but Karajan sometimes did played German classic very wonderfully. However, I never heard any interesting Bach recording made by Karajan. Is it intentionally or accidental? ...
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EMI [LP]My copy of this record is a Japanese "audiophile" pressing of the mono EMI version, from the "Great Recordings of the Century" series. I assume from the sound that the latest dubs are also Japanese, but I can't read Japanese/charac...
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I am looking for a good recording of the "Brandenburgischen Konzerte" on vinyl. I have the DG Archiv version conducted by Karl Richter from 1968. The performance is by no means poor but the recording is not one of Archiv's better moments. It is kind ...
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This record I play a lot lately - insanely gorgeous music and very seriously played music. It is the Eugene Ormandy’s own transcriptions of Bach celebrated toccatas and the passacaglia, along with the Symphony for Double Orchestra. Generally I tend t...
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