Originally posted by NemesioWhy not the original version for violin?
Played on what medium?
Lute: J.S. Bach, the Works for Lute, played by Lutz Kirchof on the
Vivarte label. (Track 7)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000270D/qid=1131815948/sr=8-6/ref=sr_8__i6_xgl15/103-4200962-5159861?v=glance&s=music&n=507846
Organ: J.S. Bach: The Complete Organ Works, Volume 4, played by
Hans Fagius on the BIS ...[text shortened]... volume, or you can buy the re-release of
all 17 discs for $90 (I forget the label).
Nemesio
Originally posted by NemesioWell, I am a cellist, but I don't necessarily "hear" a piece in the cello version if one exists, not even if I have played it myself. For example, I will always "hear" the aria "Es ist vollbracht" from Bach's Johannespassion with a viola da gamba. In fact, in that specific case I even "hear" it with viola da gamba while I am playing it on the cello, which influences the way I am playing it.
I'm an organist, so you know which one I hear.
Nemesio
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beethoven?
i like fish and wine!!!!
i don't like eating fish while listening to beethoven though ... because ... then i keep hearing beethoven's 10th symphony 😀
wikipedia: "modern research on a lock of Beethoven's hair taken at the time of his death shows that lead poisoning could well have contributed to his ill-health and untimely death (the levels of lead were more than 100 times higher than levels found in most people today). The source of the lead poisoning may have been fish from the heavily polluted Danube River and lead compounds used to sweeten wines."
back to music ... i like the third movement of the moonlight sonata ... when played a particular way ... (even many "great ?!" players mess it up and make it dull )... it can be sharp and sparkling !
Originally posted by Crowleyi used to play some bach on my flute in the park ...
Bach is better than Beethoven:
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Bach&word2=Beethoven
there was a certain spot where the magpies fly over near me and start singing back every time!!!!!!
now my flute is old and grimey and yuck 🙁
Originally posted by NordlysMy comment was tongue-in-cheek.
Well, I am a cellist, but I don't necessarily "hear" a piece in the cello version if one exists, not even if I have played it myself. For example, I will always "hear" the aria "Es ist vollbracht" from Bach's Johannespassion with a viola da gamba. In fact, in that specific case I even "hear" it with viola da gamba while I am playing it on the cello, which influences the way I am playing it.
Organists are notoriously self centered. Because Mozart and
Beethoven didn't write much for the organ (the former had a few
things for musical clock, the latter a single piece to my knowledge),
you will regularly find extremely advanced organists who have not
heard as much as a single symphony by them.
Your comment about gamba vs cello does not surprise me. When
I play Bach on the piano, I 'try' to make it sound like a harpsichord
in terms of the way I vary my touch. Unfortunately, my fiddling with
late Beethoven (I do not take piano-playing seriously) ends up sounding
overly classical (insufficiently dramatic).
Nemesio
Originally posted by NemesioI meant BWV 578.
Do you mean the 'Little g minor' fugue that was originally
composed for the organ (subject starts G, D, B-flat, A, G,
B-flat, A, G, F-sharp, A, D...)?
Or do you mean the one originally composed for violin,
transcribed for lute in g minor (subject starts D, D, D, D,
C, B-flat, C, A, B-flat, G)?
The latter was subsequently transcribed for organ in d minor
(and is often called the 'fiddle fugue'😉.
Nemesio
Originally posted by NemesioI am familiar with these, I think they appear on the grade syllabus as does the Bourree in e-minor - BMV 996 though it may be on the lower grades.
If you guys don't know the Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in
E-flat (often transcribed for guitar in D), BWV 998, then you
haven't lived.
Bach transcribed it for keyboard as well. Elliot Fisk does a
kick-ass performance of it.
Nemesio