{"id":488,"date":"2011-08-17T07:16:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T11:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2011-08-19T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T12:48:09","slug":"day-twenty-one-violin-sonatas-part-two-cd-1-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Day Twenty One: Violin Sonatas, Part Two (CD 1-21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bach-Complete-Works-155-Box\/dp\/B000HRME5U\/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1311823878&amp;sr=1-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/img\/BachEdition21.jpg\" alt=\"Bach Edition 21\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>An interesting observation: whereas yesterday&#8217;s Violin Sonatas (with its accompanying harpsichord) grated on my nerves, today the music seems more mournful than hurtful.<\/p>\n<p>This work definitely violates the Three-Instrument Rule (when a harpsichord is involved, it takes two other instruments to balance out that distinctive-sounding keyboard). And, for my tastes, I think the recording mix favors the violin too much. <\/p>\n<p>But, all in all, if I was going to listen to a violin and a harpsichord battle it out for dominance in my mind, I&#8217;d pick this selection of compositions. It&#8217;s well played (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bach-cantatas.com\/Bio\/Santos-Luis-Otavio.htm\">Luis Otavio Santos<\/a> provides the violin and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibizweb.nl\/belder\/belder_en.htm\">Pieter-Jan Belder<\/a> provides the harpsichord, both doing so admirably) and well recorded, albeit with the aforementioned comment about the violin&#8217;s prominence.<\/p>\n<p>The compositions on today&#8217;s CD are:<br \/>\nBWV 1017<br \/>\nBWV 1018<br \/>\nBWV 1019<br \/>\nBWV 1019a<br \/>\nBWV 1019, alternate<br \/>\nAll of these compositions are dated 1717 when Bach was 32 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting observation: whereas yesterday&#8217;s Violin Sonatas (with its accompanying harpsichord) grated on my nerves, today the music seems more mournful than hurtful. This work definitely violates the Three-Instrument Rule (when a harpsichord is involved, it takes two other instruments to balance out that distinctive-sounding keyboard). And, for my tastes, I think the recording mix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67,68,237,238,239,241,240,236,24,234,9,235,233],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}