The Daily Bach: week 2 summary
A 16th century tune making its way, through Bach, to 21st century, enchanting colours of different instruments, and lively, dancing energy...
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A 16th century tune making its way, through Bach, to 21st century, enchanting colours of different instruments, and lively, dancing energy…
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Week 2: January 9 – 15, 2023:
Monday, 9th Jan
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Ei nun, mein Gott, so fall ich dir, Chorale from Cantata 65
Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn, Fritz Werner
This recording from 1960 brings us back more than one generation. The cantata, first performed on 6 January 1724, was composed for Epiphany (this year it was last Friday). The tune (that Bach used on a few other occasions) dates even further back, to a French chanson from 1529 by Claudin de Sermisy. We are listening to it now, in 21st century – wondrous.
Tuesday, 10th Jan
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Kron und Preis gekrönter Damen, Königin! BWV 214
Dominik Wörner, Jean-François Madeuf, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Bach wrote this dramma per musica for the birthday of Maria Josepha, Queen of Poland and Electress of Saxony (1733). A year later he re-used lots of music in his Christmas Oratorio.
Today would be my mother’s birthday, so “Crown and praise of crowned ladies, Queen! with your name I shall fill the whole world.”
Wednesday, 11th Jan
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No. 25, Goldberg Variations BWV988
Władysław Kłosiewicz
A showcase of the harpsichord’s myriad colours and sonorities – to pick one variation is daunting. Here is one with an illusion of a “spatial” sound, and a rare use of the true lute stop (not to be confused with buff!).
Thursday, 12th Jan
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Fugue in G minor, BWV 1000
Evangelina Mascardi
Recorded with such detail that you can hear the fingers touching the strings of the lute, this is a very intimate Bach. A beautifully personal master of the fugue.
Friday, 13th Jan
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Allegro from Concerto for Violin & Oboe, BWV 1060R
Cecilia & Alfredo Bernardini, Dunedin Consort
A family dance, with father and daughter dialoguing while the whole ensemble, directed by John Butt, engages in a lively, and seemingly effortless, pas de bourrée. And a convincingly reconstructed Bach’s piece preserved today as a Concerto for 2 Harpsichords.
Saturday, 14th Jan
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Adagio from Concerto in D minor, BWV 974
Mario Brunello, Accademia dell’Annunciata dir. Riccardo Doni
Bach transcribed often. He re-used his own works, and frequently borrowed from other composers. Yesterday we heard a reconstruction of one of his works, and today a beguiling re-imagining of another: Harpsichord Concerto (based on an oboe one by Alessandro Marcello) played on a piccolo cello. Bach’s approach lives on.
Sunday, 15th Jan
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Week 2 Summary
A 16th century tune making its way, through Bach, to 21st century, enchanting colours of different instruments, and lively, dancing energy
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