{"id":117,"date":"2011-08-01T19:29:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T23:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2011-08-02T20:13:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T00:13:41","slug":"day-five-violin-concertos-cd-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Day Five: Violin Concertos (CD 1-5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bach<\/a>Now this is more like it!<\/p>\n

Next to Brandenburg Concertos, these Violin Concertos are my favorites so far. I realize I’ve only been listening for five days. But when I find something I like — really, really like — I have to make note of it.<\/p>\n

So that’s what I’m doing — making note of it.<\/p>\n

Violin Concerto in A minor (BWV 1041) features Dutch violinist Emmy Verhey<\/a>. (In fact, Verhey plays on tracks 1-12 on this disc.) It’s a stirring performance, especially Allegro. Tracks 1-12 were recorded in 1992.<\/p>\n

Tracks 13-15 feature Rainer Kussmaul<\/a>, Henk Rubingh, and Thomas Hengelbrock<\/a> conducting the Amsterdam Bach Soloists<\/a>. These tracks were recorded in 1988.<\/p>\n

My favorite tracks from this CD are the more up-tempo ones, the Allegro movements, although the Presto movement from Violin Concerto in D minor (“the saddest key of all,” according to Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel), which is BWV 1052.<\/p>\n

I listened to this CD 3-4 times today. It was great background music for my writing projects.<\/p>\n

The compositions on this disc are:<\/p>\n

BWV 1041 – 1717 (Bach was 32)
\nBWV 1042 – 1717 (Bach was 32)
\nBWV 1052 – 1738 (Bach was 53)
\nBWV 1056 – 1742 (Bach was 57)
\nBWV 1064 – 1735 (Bach was 50)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now this is more like it! Next to Brandenburg Concertos, these Violin Concertos are my favorites so far. I realize I’ve only been listening for five days. But when I find something I like — really, really like — I have to make note of it. So that’s what I’m doing — making note of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67,73,69,71,64,60,68,74,70,72,66,54,55,56,57,58,77,59,62,63,61,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}