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Day Twenty Five: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (CD 2-2)

August 21st, 2011 · No Comments · 1722, Bach at 37, BWV 846-870, CD 2-2, Glenn Gould, Harpsichord, Praeludium, Prelude & Fugue No. 15 in G major, Prelude & Fugue No. 21 in B flat major, Well-Tempered Clavier

Although this is fine music, well played by Leon Berben, I’m just not diggin’ it. Don’t get me wrong. It’s clever music. I like the Fuga pieces from each composition as they twist and turn and tie knots around the theme. However, overall, I prefer the Preludes & Fugues on the first CD of The […]

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Day Twenty Four: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (CD 2-1)

August 20th, 2011 · No Comments · 1722, Bach at 37, BWV 846-870, CD 2-1, Glenn Gould, Harpsichord, Leon Berben, Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C major, Well-Tempered Clavier

Harpsichord. An entire CD’s worth of harpsichord. I’m back to the “Pedal Steel Greats” CD I joked about a week or so ago. For the first 10 minutes (okay, maybe five), this is okay music. But after 30, 40, 50 minutes, the harpsichord sounds like an assortment of trash can lids banging together. It loses […]

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Day Twenty Two: Notenbuchlein Fur Anna Magdalena Bach (CD 1-22)

August 18th, 2011 · No Comments · 1722, Anhang, Anti-Calvinism, Anti-melancholy, Bach's Second Wife, BWV 299, BWV 508, BWV 509, BWV 510, BWV 511, BWV 512, BWV 513, BWV 514, BWV 515a, BWV 516, BWV 517, BWV 518, BWV 691, BWV 846, BWV 988, BWV Anhang 113-132, BWV Anhang 114 Menuet, CD 1-22, Evangelical Christian School, Harpsichord, Johannette Zomer, Notenbuchlein Fur Anna Magdalena Bach, Pieter-Jan Belder, Soprano

Now, this is a quirky little collection of 38 pieces of music. The title (“Notenbuchlein Fur Anna Magdalena Bach”) means Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, Johann’s second wife. According to its entry on Wikipedia: The title Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach refers to either of two manuscript notebooks that the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian […]

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