This more than quite good. Bach.
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lagavullin10y
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When I was teenager and did the regular things (having issues on school, stopped playing the organ (but I came back)) one of the remaining things I kept doing was listening to some Brandenburg Concertos and Violin Concertos - especially the middle part of this violin concerto. It took a few years more when I started playing the organ again.
I do remember this piece also from when I was 5 or 6 and my parents took me on holiday to Switzerland. Also, they had Mozarts Symphony 35 'Haffner' by the Berlin Philharmoniker and Albinioni's Adagio in the car. O wait, I should not forget Pachelbels canon.
tones
Tones deaf
Very nice. Brandenburg 5 was a historic moment, when the harpsichord, traditionally a continuo instrument, stepped into the limelight for a solo. This one is nicely paced (there is the tendency to make it very "virtuoso" by playing it very fast).
tones
Tones deaf
An interesting contrast with this more recent version from the Dutch "All of Bach" site:
http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-1043/
Stunsworth
pfm Member
My intoduction to Bach was the Menuhin version with the Bath Festival Orchestra. I haven’t listened to it for 40 years or more.
The first version I bought was the Virtuosi of England on two Classics for Pleasure LPs. I still have the LPs and also have it on a double CD coupled with the violin concertos.
I must get to Leipzig some time. As a non-religious person it’s the nearest I’ll come to a pilgrimage.
The first version I bought was the Virtuosi of England on two Classics for Pleasure LPs. I still have the LPs and also have it on a double CD coupled with the violin concertos.
I must get to Leipzig some time. As a non-religious person it’s the nearest I’ll come to a pilgrimage.
mandryka
pfm Member
On Monday I heard Richard Egarr play the 6th keyboard partita in London. Before the performance he talked about how there are ideas embedded in the score, crosses made of musical notes, musical images of Christ stumbling, all sorts of strange numerological things pop up when you count things. Above all he talked about the bitterness, the angry bitterness, of the gigue.
In short he thinks that this piece of music is inspired by the passion.
Listening to him perform, I thought he could well be right
In short he thinks that this piece of music is inspired by the passion.
Listening to him perform, I thought he could well be right
George J
Herefordshire member
This was the first of the Concertos other than the Brandenburgs that I discovered from Bach in my early twenties from a live concert broadcast. You can imagine the voyage of discovery I was making at the time!
Nowadays my favourite performance of it is the one done by Elizabeth Walfisch [with a very fine second soloist] and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
My first LP of the three standard Violin Concertos was by Menuhin with the Bath Festival Orchestra. I also had their recording of the Brandenburgs as my first, though since then I have got the sets by HM Linde, Adolf Busch, Mogens Woldike, and August Wenzinger.
I have couple of others in large collections, but the ones listed I find are superb in their varied ways!
ATB from George