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George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4168

a fair enough assessment!
then again, there's this... (-:

Don-Alexei · **Posted:** Sat May 05, 2012 3:38 am

That's a strange way of playing it. Dry and irregular. No like.

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4168

it gave off the exact opposite impression on me (-:

Don-Alexei · **Posted:** Mon May 07, 2012 1:02 pm

The beginning is jumbled, it's like he's not sure which way to play it, how much time to wait. Then those dotted quavers-semiquaver bits sound more like double dotted sauvers-demisemiquavers, really abrupt I find.
I'm biased though, not a fan of the harpsichord much (at least, on its own).

joe c · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:35 am **Posts:** 2914

Don-Alexei wrote:

That's a strange way of playing it. Dry and irregular. No like.

I thought it a bit irregular but certainly not dry.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:11 am **Posts:** 5090

Brandenburg Concertos.

Bach wrote them.

My god.

How

did

he

do

it

?

Brian · **Joined:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:52 pm **Posts:** 2355

I love the Brandenburgs. For anyone who's new to Bach, they're a great place to start, because they're pretty accessible.

If you want to try a stylistically similar work by another composer, try Handel's Opus 6 Concerti Grossi. For me, not quite at the Brandenburg level, but excellent anyway.

The Man · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 9:35 pm

I've been really into the French suites lately. I dig them a lot more than the English suites. Though not as technical, they come off as far more musical. The partitas have both. But the French suites are what I've been into

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:11 am **Posts:** 5090

Fucking Brandenburg Concertos. How did the same guy who wrote the Mass in B Minor write these?

rockvirtuoso · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:36 pm **Posts:** 2375

not to mention goldberg variations, chaconne in d minor and so on. bach >>> einstein

The Man · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:58 pm

pnoom wrote:

Fucking Brandenburg Concertos. How did the same guy who wrote the Mass in B Minor write these?

I love this post, especially when viewed in context of the one you put up a month ago.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:11 am **Posts:** 5090

Haha.

Tudwell · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:06 am **Posts:** 4150

I have yet to fully absorb the Goldberg Variations, so I think, for the next month, I'm going to list to one per day, as many times as it takes me to understand it, to feel it, starting today with the aria, which I already love and listen to a lot.

Dreww · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 5832

Which version are you listening to? If it's the Gould, some will disagree with me, but that may not be the best place to start. I love Gould and in many ways his 1981 version is my favorite, but some of the variations he distorts so crazily that it might be better to start with someone like Hewitt or Perahia.

Gould's 20th variation:
http://grooveshark.com/s/Goldberg+Varia ... Cdvq?src=5

Hewitt's 20th variation:
http://grooveshark.com/s/Variation+20/4qrBBM?src=5

So those are two wildly different things.

Yngtchie Blacksteen · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2012 5:18 am

Brian wrote:

I love the Brandenburgs. For anyone who's new to Bach, they're a great place to start, because they're pretty accessible.

If you want to try a stylistically similar work by another composer, try Handel's Opus 6 Concerti Grossi. For me, not quite at the Brandenburg level, but excellent anyway.

Yeah, those are also excellent, great recommendation for lovers of the Brandenburg Concerti who want to try something new in the same vein.

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