Mark---Which Bach?? so many of the buggers (oops polite group here):-)
Is that the hannssler edition I have from a charity shop(2 quid!!) the
sampler CD oops that says should be 160 cds have you been robbed
Enjoy - as an old atheist I love Bach esp when in the German when I do not
hear the daft words--nice to think that no god ever wrote any music just us
old people
I once heard a program on the other Bachs some glorius music one I
particularly liked by a granddad of his all about the plague (no not a
plague of poets !!)
Cheers P
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 19 August 2007 20:30
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Subject: Bach
Yesterday the Bach Edition--Complete Works, which I had ordered from
Amazon for $125 (86 euros on French Amazon), arrived. It's 155 CDs. I
immediately went to pieces I know well--the Toccatta and Fuge in D
Minor for organ (very fine), Wachet Auf (superb interpretation,
soloists adequate), the Goldberg Variations excellent), the
6th Cello Suite (respectable and a bit more), the first solo violin
partita (likewise), the B Minor Mass. I also dipped my toe into the
Saint Matthew's Passion--difficult to turn that one off, but not
enough time. It seemed very good indeed. Most of the work is on
period instruments, but there's no preciosity. The Goldbergs on
harpsichord produce nuances that the piano can't. Interesting
mistake--the B Minor is listed on the sleeve as by a small, unknown
to me ensemble, but it's in fact Klemoperer and the Philharmonia with
Baker and Gedda, and I'm not complaining.
All of these I alreasdy own performances off, sometimes several. The
real fun is going to be all those pieces I've never heard. Of the
cantatas, for instance, I know maybe 20.
The first citizen reviewer at the Amazon site is Kamau Brathwaite, by the
way.
There's a CD at the end of bio, notes, and the libretti (vo, french
and english) of all the vocal works.
I can't think of a better way to spend $125. Bach's was one of the
great minds --up there with Shakespeare, Michelangelo,Newton, and
maybe Montaigne and not a whole lot of others. What the hell could
the burgers of Leipzig do with the rest of Sunday after leaving
church? Art, sex or ice cream it had to be. Me, after those hours of
listening I hiked through my forest on one of the summer's loveliest days.
Mark
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