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Happy Birthday to JS Bach!

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Posted on March 21, 2017 at 10:00:21
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 Listening to KDFC as I work through some relatively boring stuff this am. Right now they are playing the Concerto for 2 violins in d-minor. Julia Fischer and friend, so non HIP.

My favorite Bach recordings:

Brandenburgs - Harnoncourt/Concentus Musicus, the first recording.

Goldberg Variations - Gould, first and second recordings (very different), Kirkpatrick, and Gilbert.

Christmas Oratorio -again, Harnoncourt's first recording, although I also enjoy the Netherlands Bach Society on Channel Classics.

E.Power Biggs playing various works, including the Toccata and Fugue in d-minor

Parkening Plays Bach.


Some of these are LPs, some SACDs, some CDs.

I am not as familiar with the violin sonatas/partitas or the cello suites as I would like to be, nor the b-minor Mass. I am more familiar with the St. Matthew Passion, but I have a hard time getting inside it.




 

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RE: Happy Birthday to JS Bach!, posted on March 21, 2017 at 10:39:47
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 Happy Birthday indeed J S Bach-

I sang his Magnificat in college - loved that piece-
Happy Listening

 

All downhill after Bach. : ) , posted on March 21, 2017 at 11:07:37
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 The Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord are Bach at his lyrical best. The Flute Sonatas too.

Since you're an Lp guy, Grumiaux's Box set on Philips is perfectly fine. He has an additional single Philips lp with a couple more Sonatas that include Cello.

For the Flute Sonatas, there's a UK CRD box set with Savall.

All the above are analog.

 

"Julia Fischer and friend, so non HIP", posted on March 21, 2017 at 11:18:20
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 Yes - isn't it wonderful! (My wife and I saw her do these concertos with the ASMF in Berkeley a few years ago.) I love the way J-Fi stands up for music and justice!



BTW, the friend is Alexander Sitkovetsky.

 

I'm listening to Wendy Carlos - so no HIP there either!, posted on March 21, 2017 at 12:39:19
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 But after that it will be Podger & Pinnock play the violin sonatas.

 

Oh dear! You poor demented lad! [nt], posted on March 21, 2017 at 18:12:40
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RE: All downhill after Bach. : ) , posted on March 21, 2017 at 18:15:53
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 I've read other people raving about the Grimiaux. I bought the CD set.

The violin is front and center and the harpsichord is somewhere in the background. The problem is that the harpsichord has lots of counterpoint that relates to the violin. I pretty much couldn't hear what was going on.

I have the Laredo/Gould but Gould's playing, and I am a fan, is so bizarre in this case that it really doesn't cut it.

I need a recording that close mics the harpsichord or one with piano.

Recommendations?


"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok

 

RE: "Justice"? [nt], posted on March 21, 2017 at 18:51:58
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 nt

 

Yes, but sometimes the slope is shallow [nt], posted on March 21, 2017 at 18:53:26
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RE: Solo violin Sonatas, Partitas/Grumiaux [nt], posted on March 21, 2017 at 18:54:35
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I'm downloading Leila Schayegh's on Glossa, one at a time. , posted on March 21, 2017 at 19:19:05
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Halubek's harpsichord is easier to hear, and quite pleasant-sounding.

 

I'd lift a stein to him..., posted on March 21, 2017 at 20:55:17
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 were I still stein lifting.

Well Tempered Clavier - Richter. (Like the Till Fellner too)

Cello Suites - Starker, RCA.

Brandenburgs - Jordi Savall, Les Concert de Nations

Goldberg Variations - Gould, first and second recordings.

Like the Hillary Hahn Sonatas/Partitas.

The Air by Ansermet/La Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, possibly one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever.

Plus a LOT of various Cantatas.

There IS no bad Bach despite some... lesser... interpretations.

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

RE:Thanks! I will check it out. nt, posted on March 22, 2017 at 11:41:20
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You know. . . like. . . musical justice - with the HIPsters behind bars? [nt] ;-), posted on March 23, 2017 at 00:07:39
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RE: I know, then, back to the bad old days. nt, posted on March 23, 2017 at 05:32:59
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Walter had it all over Wendy..., posted on March 23, 2017 at 11:29:04
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 Well, what I mean is....
Oh, never mind.

 

I know what you mean., posted on March 23, 2017 at 14:19:10
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 I actually find it hard to listen to some of the Bach of old -- Edwin Fischer, Casals, Thibaud, Cortot, etc. Even today's non-HIPsters are usually HIPper than that.

 

You won't believe this, but. . . , posted on March 24, 2017 at 00:37:20
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 . . . I completely agree with you about the people you named. (Well, I don't really know Thibaud's recordings, but, just on general principles. . . !)

 

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