BWV 1056 Largo is...

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Im a Bach freak. I listen to his works at least for 1 hour a day. Ive listened and liked plenty of his works, but after a long time finding it, I feel that this 3 min little piece is very special. It is so spontaneous and simple yet increadibly stimulating and touching. Im enchanted by it and love it so much...


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Write something or I ll kill myself.

relax man, you just posted this.
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I like it. I listen to Bach and Vivaldi. I also like classical guitar music.

Me and you are going to be best friends then. I absolutely love Bach. His cello suite is the best thing in the world.

I liked it, thanks. My exposure to Bach has been minimal, so far.

Pardon my haste Im very excited about this thing and its one of few threads that I open with pure enthusiasm and emotion.

Barok music rocks. I like Vivaldi too, but Im not familiar with his less known pieces. Bach's Chaconne, though it was composed for violin, is often played with guitar. You may like it:


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Hehe. Out of his cello suite, I only know this one, and I listen to it once in every two weeks. I will be glad if you recommend some other movements.

Prelude

You may call me a Bach freak if you want...it seems fitting. I am extremely fond of Glenn Gould, who may have been on the spectrum. The Goldberg Variations were his thing.

I used to have memorized one of Bach's fugues. I need to pick it back up and refresh my memory, because it's the only one I can play! Really the ONLY way to play Bach is to memorize it, especially with the more dense counterpoint stuff.

Tell me, decoder: How do you feel about Walter/Wendy Carlos's "Switched on Bach"? Good stuff? Or better left to acoustic instruments? Keep in mind that "Switched" was recorded in the pre-MIDI era on monophonic synthesizers to analog tape--ONE PART AT A TIME. Impressive stuff.

My partiality is due to having earned a Master's Degree in electro-acoustic composition. It has occurred to me to do a similar kind of realization of Bartok's work, though WITH sequencers rather than in real-time.

Hey, Bach freak! Ive never understood why people cared so much for the interpreters (people that just play) and interpretations, it doesnt make sense to me. One should look for an accurate and flawless interpretation, and after finding, should only focus on the composition.

I know Glenn Gould. He is a flawless player. He is very loyal to the sheet music and is a good choice to listen Bach, I think. He was an aspie, and his condition was quite extreme.





I have an electronic keyboard and I play the BWV 113, BWV 1056 largo, Goldberg var: aria and var.1 on it. I memorized them as well, I cant play by reading yet. I may never learn to do it, cuz I tend to do things the hard way. I will check the thing you said and I ll let you know what I think about it.

I am deeply surprised by the versitility of Bach's music. I have sometimes listened to transcriptions of his music and and returned with a like of the original music. A couple of the best interpretations are Leopold Stokowski (BBC SO/ Slatkin is my favorite), the Emerson String Quartet recordings of the Art of the Fugue, and the Jacques Loussier Trio jazz recordings. If you do not "get" one of Bach's pieces, listen to different interpretations and transcriptions of them. I have been mildly surprised by the number of non-classical artists that have done his stuff. My all time Bach recording is New Age CD called "The Bach Variations".

I find myself enjoying more modern music like Philip Glass or John Adams. If not that, I enjoy the Russians like Prokofiev, Stravinsky, or Shostakovich. Bach has his high points but on some points, but at times I just can't really get engaged in it. I always have room for more Prokofiev, though. Except Peter and the Wolf...it's a decent one but probably the lowest out of the Prokofiev library.

I'm very thankful to Back for one thing. The western musical structure. I do like some of his music, but to be honest I had so much of his and several other artists music shoved down my throat so much as a child, some of it literally drives me to want to break something now.

If I had to pick one fantasy to live out, it would be to bring every pre-electronics musician back to life today, expose them to all of the musical genres that have evolved since recorded music was invented, and hear what they have to say about it.

I am positive we would hear quite a lot of surprising reactions. I bet a lot of them would love a great deal of what they heard, including Bach.

I take Bach very, very seriously. He is my favourite composer. He wrote much better things than the piece you mentioned, also. ^^

He certainly wrote more complicated pieces, but not sure about better. I rate this little pieces at the same rank as Pascaglia. Bach was aware that musical quality and complexity was separate things, thats why he wrote many short pieces too.

Btw I started playing this piece on the piano

I don't consider the Passacaglia a particularly great work either. That was written before Bach had developed a really strong contrapuntal technique, and really that's the most important thing in music. I don't agree that musical quality and complexity are separate, and short pieces can be very complex (look at all the fugues - often one to three minutes in length). I think that "complexity" is necessary on a very basic aesthetical level (and by complexity I really just mean control, everything in the piece must be utterly deliberate, although I mean this specifically, because in order for music to be interesting counterpoint is necessary).

I am not saying that those works (Passacaglia and Fugue, BWV 1056) are not enjoyable, because, like most of Bach, they definitely are. They just don't compare with some of his later music, quite simply the best the world has seen.