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RE: (western) classical music discussion
April 6, 2016 at 3:42 pm
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Oh, no wonder I couldn't find it in the list of albums released by different performers, I was looking under Beethoven. DUH! I need to look more into Bach. I haven't looked into much baroque music.
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RE: (western) classical music discussion
April 6, 2016 at 4:11 pm
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(April 6, 2016 at 3:42 pm)Phosphorescent Panties Wrote: Oh, no wonder I couldn't find it in the list of albums released by different performers, I was looking under Beethoven. DUH! I need to look more into Bach. I haven't looked into much baroque music.
I'm becoming kind of obsessed with it...
My current favourite baroque works are (in roughly temporal order) the Vespers by Monteverdi (if you want to count that as early baroque), some of the Psalms and Madrigals by Schütz, the Membra Jesu Nostri by Buxtehude, and the clavier Partitas, the first Clavier Concerto and the second English Suite, the St. Matthew's passion and the Art of Fugue by Bach. From the little I've seen of your taste, some of the six Partitas might be your cup of tea. Here's the energetic last part of the sixth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LftJ-J9XZ3Y
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RE: (western) classical music discussion
April 6, 2016 at 11:58 pm
(April 6, 2016 at 3:42 pm)Phosphorescent Panties Wrote: Oh, no wonder I couldn't find it in the list of albums released by different performers, I was looking under Beethoven. DUH! I need to look more into Bach. I haven't looked into much baroque music.
Well, just ask me what composers you're interested in, and I'll try to point you in the right direction.
Here's my baroque collection:
- H.I.F. Biber: Rosary Sonatas
- Corelli: Op. 6 Concertos (Ensemble 415)
- Corelli: Op. 5 Sonatas (Manze-Egarr)
- Handel: Messiah (Gardiner, Higginbottom)
- Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Alessandrini)
- Monteverdi: Vespers (McCreesh)
- Monteverdi: Combattimento (Haim)
- Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Lewis)
- Purcell: Fantasias and In Nomines (Fretwork)
- Purcell: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
- Vivaldi: The Essential Vivaldi 2 Disc Decca (includes Marriner's 4 Seasons)
And, in a category all his own, Bach:
Chamber:
- Cello Suites (Casals, Schiff)
- Flute and Gamba sonatas (Larrieu)
- Violin Sonatas and Partitas (Grumiaux, Faust)
- Goldberg Variations String Trio Arrangement (Maisky)
- Music for Lute-Harpsichord (Farr)
Choral:
- Canatatas (Rifkin:147, 140, 80, 8, 78, 51; Quasthoff: 56, 158, 82)
- Christmas Oratorio (Ledger)
- Matthew Passion (Klemperer, Herreweghe)
- B Minor Mass (Klemperer, Gardiner)
- Magnificat (The 16)
Keyboard:
- St. John Passion (Gardiner)
- 6 Partitas (Schiff)
- Tocattas (Hewitt)
- Organ Works (Richter)
- Glenn Gould: Well-Tempered Clavier, French and English Suites, Inventions, Goldberg Variations (1955 and 1982)
Orchestral:
- Brandenburgs, Orchestral Suites, Violin Concertos, Musical Offering: Neville Marriner
- Harpsichord Concerto (Pinnock)
- Brandenburgs (Richter)
Art of the Fugue:
- Organ: Helmut Walcha
- Ensemble: Marriner
- Piano: Hewitt
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RE: (western) classical music discussion
April 7, 2016 at 4:04 am
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Good selection! You just confused a few categories there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wb36-orBL0
Ha! He's swinging the Gigue (playing inégales) of the last part (starting ~ 26:10). I hadn't heard it this way before, now that's something else! *Toe tap*
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RE: (western) classical music discussion
April 7, 2016 at 9:22 am
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Some more dazzling partita work, again a final movement of my favourite. Very groovy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mFDXNODNyc
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RE: (western) classical music discussion
April 7, 2016 at 10:05 am
(April 7, 2016 at 4:04 am)Alex K Wrote: Good selection! You just confused a few categories there. I know, man. But, that said, quite a few of Bach's works seem to be far more fluid in categorization and instrumentation. Particularly The Art of the Fugue. Nobody even knows what that one's supposed to be performed by.
Also, apparently, I put the "St. John Passion" in the Keyboard section and not the choral section and it's apparently too late to edit.
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RE: (western) classical music discussion
April 7, 2016 at 10:10 am
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(April 7, 2016 at 10:05 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: (April 7, 2016 at 4:04 am)Alex K Wrote: Good selection! You just confused a few categories there. I know, man. But, that said, quite a few of Bach's works seem to be far more fluid in categorization and instrumentation. Particularly The Art of the Fugue. Nobody even knows what that one's supposed to be performed by.
And that's very fortunate in my opinion, because it is a very different, but always stunning piece depending what it is played on. I linked the very meditative string + harpsichord version above, piano versions can be wonderfully nuanced and dramatic, the organ version is monumental,but I am also a huge fan of the Canadian Brass rendition, which gives it a more lush and Jazzy feel. The first time I heard it live was by a Saxophone quintet in a Gothic monastery. Unforgettable!
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RE: (western) classical music discussion
April 13, 2016 at 4:11 am
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RE: (western) classical music discussion
April 18, 2016 at 9:21 am
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Quite the inspired performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT-0XefPO3Y
Dessay is just hilarious to behold while singing her heart out, and I've always liked E. Haim as a conductor.
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RE: (western) classical music discussion
April 19, 2016 at 4:18 am
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Here's one for you, Min, you old Haydn lover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcrKzQ1_2R4
These young lads and lasses apparently know what they are doing!
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