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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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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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for fucks sake posted:Another one from Jack, this sounds really nice. i hope he keeps putting these out forever
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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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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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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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