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RE: J. S. Bach Playlist
November 23, 2019 at 8:31 am
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Here's Joshua Bell playing the Chaconne from the second violin partita in a subway station. One mainly sees people rushing by not paying attention. Some people interpret this as as showing the cultural decline of society blabla, I'd rather think that not paying attention to a random bit of a challenging solo music while trying to get to work is probably the natural thing to do.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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RE: J. S. Bach Playlist
November 25, 2019 at 5:53 pm
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The YT description says it all:
"When it was composed, this violin marvel – the Violin Concerto in D minor, performed here by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach – immediately became such a technical challenge that few soloists were able to tackle it. Too few, probably, as not a shred of it has survived. The concerto played here is a modern reconstruction, based on a harpsichord concerto written much later by Bach, but which is presumed to originate from a violin concerto."
You can see the usually super-confident Bachvereinigig musicians really on their toes to keep up with this challenging composition
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
