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i want a thread to post about how much i love Bach. every few months i find a new work of his that i hadn't heard before and it completely blows my mind. i play a little bach on guitar but most of it is way too hard for me. he is, in my opinion, the quintessential "musician's musician." some of my favorite bach: Lute Suite in E minor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-BW0Jk2H4o this one contains the famous "Bouree" later played by Jethro Tull and Tenacious D Art of Fugue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTsQ-TbQReI here, played by the great klezmer clarinetist, michael winograd! incredible!! Chaconne in D minor for solo violin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhOaS_Cy8_8 probably my favorite piece of music ever written. Brahms said: “The Chaconne is, in my opinion, one of the most wonderful and most incomprehensible pieces of music. Using the technique adapted to a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I could picture myself writing, or even conceiving, such a piece, I am certain that the extreme excitement and emotional tension would have driven me mad." post your favorite Bachs here!
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Yes OP, JS Bach had so many bangers! It's hard to play on guitar, but that doesn't stop me from listening to other musicians pull it off. Maybe Bach fans will enjoy listening to this classical guitarist I was turned onto recently, who arranged and performed a lot of Bach pieces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--DFeBRMUzw
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Jul 17, 2022 01:28
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The Little Fugue, as performed by the Netherlands Bach Society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vITIeoxcfdM then because of course synths go so well with Bach, Allemande from the French Suite No. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7adeBm7lnmg fun fact: for this synth they had to double the case because otherwise there'd not be enough airflow, but that also makes it pretty unique since most synths will have single claviers, double ones are more an organ thing these days however, you can buy a single-clavier 10-voice for the paltry sum of $4400
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Jul 17, 2022 11:56
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Helianthus Annuus posted:Yes OP, JS Bach had so many bangers! i saw one of my classical teachers perform a concert and he had a Bach fugue in it. he said it was far, far harder than the other pieces, despite not sounding as complex, because it wasn't written for the guitar originally. Bach sounds great on guitar, though! i tried playing just one of the lines from the Art of Fugue Contrapunctus 1 on guitar and barely made it 10 measures. even one voice was so complex Laserjet 4P posted:The Little Fugue, as performed by the Netherlands Bach Society: that little fugue performance - wow! and that synth performance is great too. bach can sound really modern with a different timbre.
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Jul 18, 2022 20:37
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Another one from Jack, this sounds really nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8vZEW7mHpg
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Jul 21, 2022 14:48
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for fucks sake posted:Another one from Jack, this sounds really nice. i hope he keeps putting these out forever
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Jul 21, 2022 15:49
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Chris Thile's album of Bach sonatas and partitas for solo mandolin is some of the best Bach I've ever heard. I'm just waiting for part two so we can get the E major stuff on record. Sonata 1: https://youtu.be/j3lH_Tevw5o E major prelude: https://youtu.be/ADtJqVMtA-M
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Aug 5, 2022 14:51
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One time I added some drums to a Bach piece \m/ https://whyp.it/tracks/35890/blastbeatbach
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Aug 6, 2022 08:11
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for fucks sake posted:One time I added some drums to a Bach piece \m/ it works!! Bach is jazz, Bach is punk rock, Bach is metal. Bach is all
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Aug 6, 2022 11:33
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ever check out Chopin tho?
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Sep 3, 2022 14:53
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gotta love the brandenberg concertos!!! and the goldberg variations! The man was just a true beast of a composer
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Sep 10, 2022 06:15
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His music and the amount of it he wrote makes more sense when you consider he drank coffee non-stop. https://www.classical-music.com/features/articles/bach-s-caffeine-based-love-affair/
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Sep 10, 2022 12:36
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Bach rules but few things hurt more than diligently preparing a Bach work before being told, in very precise detail, during rehearsal in front of colleagues, exactly what and how you're loving up, and then seeing the look of disappointment on the face of the conductor during the performance when you gently caress it up live too anyway here's BWV 96. it's good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2wigx_NyZY
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Sep 11, 2022 21:52
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Helianthus Annuus posted:ever check out Chopin tho? love chopin, i have a moderately easy arrangement of Nocturne in Eb for classical guitar (transposed to C) but never got around to really learning it Doctor Dogballs posted:gotta love the brandenberg concertos!!! and the goldberg variations! The man was just a true beast of a composer that's right ricecult posted:His music and the amount of it he wrote makes more sense when you consider he drank coffee non-stop. https://www.classical-music.com/features/articles/bach-s-caffeine-based-love-affair/ lol, did not know this webcams for christ posted:Bach rules but few things hurt more than diligently preparing a Bach work before being told, in very precise detail, during rehearsal in front of colleagues, exactly what and how you're loving up, and then seeing the look of disappointment on the face of the conductor during the performance when you gently caress it up live too ouch!! sounds like the conductor needs to chill though
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Sep 12, 2022 13:29
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it's that time of year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3MF8HM-NY0 last night I had the pleasure of joining hundreds of other musicians at a bar / event space, drinking a beer or two, then crashing though Weihnachtsoratorium I-III. it was really, really fun.
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Dec 18, 2022 12:57
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I spend at least an hour a day ruining the cello suites on double bass. Probably even more time listening to them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTuF461OT3w There is a lot of Bach to listen to. I like the Goldberg Variations a lot and these guys played all of them as a low string trio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDHei4yIfu4
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Dec 26, 2022 23:48
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Bach has always struck me as very heady and long-winded, which TBF is classical music in general but doesn’t really make for an enjoyable listening experience. I do want to learn from his work, though, so I’d like something relatively simple to begin with. Any good starting points for someone who mostly listens to electronic (e.g. post-punk, industrial, video game OSTs)?
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Pollyanna posted:Bach has always struck me as very heady and long-winded, which TBF is classical music in general but doesn’t really make for an enjoyable listening experience. I do want to learn from his work, though, so I’d like something relatively simple to begin with. Any good starting points for someone who mostly listens to electronic (e.g. post-punk, industrial, video game OSTs)? Listen to da Goldberg Variations. If you can make it through the opening Aria which all of the variations are based on, the first variation absolutely rips and there really isn't much filler after that, they're all good. To me it's really fun to be listening to 3 different voices on the same instrument and then suddenly hear the Aria coming through. This guy takes all the repeats at a slower tempo but it's a really good performance with good visuals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtOPiG5jyk If you prefer piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah392lnFHxM As far as Bach being long winded, most Bach movements I can think of only last 3-6 minutes which is really not that much unless you want to sit through an entire suite, which I would only do for a live concert or putting on something while I kill orcs on the computer. Also I think maybe the modern listener's ear doesn't care for organ or harpsicord because we're not accustomed to it, but IMO they are cool + rare instruments and deserve a chance.
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Jan 5, 2023 23:12
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Pollyanna posted:Bach has always struck me as very heady and long-winded, which TBF is classical music in general but doesn’t really make for an enjoyable listening experience. I do want to learn from his work, though, so I’d like something relatively simple to begin with. Any good starting points for someone who mostly listens to electronic (e.g. post-punk, industrial, video game OSTs)? i find bach ultra dense and hard to enjoy unless i actually sit down and listen to it. heady yes, don’t think he’s long winded though. if the goldberg variations don’t work for you, the Well-Tempered Clavier is an excellent collection where each piece is self-contained and short. Glenn Gould’s piano recordings are great as always. edit: oh, and for learning - the two-part inventions were designed as piano teaching pieces in two voices, so they’re simpler than the fugues. check ‘em out!
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half of all of Bach's compositions are for 1 or more singers, but his vocal works are definitely underrepresented in classical radio or playlists. for some short bach vocal works, here are all of his Chorales, many of which are under 90 seconds: Spotify Playlist: Bach Chorales
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