You can call me Johann. But don't expect me to answer to that.
Proving once again that the enjoyment of music is purely subjective, even though today’s CD violates the Three-Instrument Rule, I like it. There’s probably some scientific or musicological reason why I like today’s CD when I haven’t really enjoyed the last couple of CD. Maybe these compositions are more complex. Or maybe they’re performed in […]
Entries Tagged as 'Leon Berben'
Day Twenty Seven: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (CD 2-4)
August 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Bach at 57, BWV 871-893, CD 2-4, Leon Berben, Three-Instrument Rule, Well-Tempered Clavier Book II
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Day Twenty Six: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (CD 2-3)
August 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · 1 Corinthians 13:1, 1742, Bach at 57, BWV 871-893, CD 2-3, Dennis Brain, French horn, Harpsichord, Leon Berben, Well-Tempered Clavier Book II
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, starts off with a more robust and complex Prelude & Fugue (in C major), which is understandable since Book II was published in 1742, some 20 years after Book I. Bach was now 57 and presumably had more command of his craft. So the difference between Book I and Book […]
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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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