Anything Bach.
Everything Bach.
Esp: Art of the Fugue, Italian Concerto (piano), Bminor Mass, St. Matthew's Passion, Brandenburgs (on period instruments only, please), *all* Organ Toccatta & Fugue's,
Bach Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould, 1981 recording)
If I could only own one CD, I'd probably make it this one.
Handel flute sonatas (Barthold Kuiken)
Anner Bylsma's recording of the Bach cello suites is nice, too. Played on a period instrument.
Bach, Bach and more Bach. The supreme musical being. Especially the solo works for stringed instruments - suites for violin, cello and lute. Amazing stuff. I think the Chaconne from the Dm violin partita is the most awesome piece of music ever composed (but I'm not sure anybody besides Yascha Heifetz and Andres Segovia has ever done it justice). And I use the word "awesome" in its authentic dictionary sense. Playing Bach on the guitar was my main musical and spiritual practice for several years.
Not other Baroque stuff isn't great. It's just that Bach so far transcended everything else as to be, well, awesome.
This is funny. After saying I was using "awesome" in its authentic dictionary sense, I decided to look it up in a dictionary to see if I was lying. The first usage example for “awe” said, “We felt awe when contemplating the works of Bach.”
Cor Blimey, strike a light and knock me down with a ten bob note!
I haven't listened to the Double violin Concerto for about ten years. It used to be a real favourite and I'd completely forgotten about it's existence. I shall go and dig it out Toot Sweet!
Mary, I dig out the 'Messiah' CD set every once in a while. I can't do anything else while I listen to it because some parts are so stunning. It has almost reached warhorse status, with all the Christmas overkill and the "Sing Along Messiah" concerts, but it's quite a chunk of music.
I went through a serious Albioni crush in college, but can't play the albums now because my turntable is no more. Pity. Must buy CDs....
Yeah, I neglected to mention Handel's Messiah, mainly because it's so overdone, and Handel pales in comp to Bach, but I absolutely *love* to sing the Messiah every year at those "sing along" concerts -- especially if there's an orchestra as opposed just an organ. My absolute fave section is the "Amen" fugue at the end of "Worthy is the Lamb That was Slain". I sing the bass part (which introduces the motif in the "Amen" fugue) and I know it well enough that I can really listen to the entire sound of that section while I'm singing it ... I'm getting chills just thinking about it ...
That man was a freak of nature as well, though only in his manic spurts.
Armand, I hope you mean it's your computer mouse that's hopeless. Otherwise get the poor rodent some therapy. ;)
Vivaldi, practically anything but most especially the Four Seasons. Bach, practically everything but especially the aforementioned concerto for two violins. Handel, Water Music and Fireworks Music in particular. Anything baroque played by Winton Marsalis; those beautiful clear, high trumpet solos are to die for.
Lots of other things I can't remember right off hand; it's one of my favorite musical eras.
I agree with the Concerto in Am, Fiddle MeThis =] Sexy stuff! Last thing I ever learned before falling from that place called the Classical world.. Ahh, good times -_-;
Anywho, yes it IS a computer mouse! I love mice! The not-so-plastic kind of course!
Wow, the double violin concerto... I need to dig that up as well =]
Also, Albinoni, damn! His adagio in... G minor? LOVELY. LOVELY.
Was driving home one night and took the long way along the ridge so I could listen to a broadcast of the unaccompanied cello suites. At the top of the hill I had to pull over. The sky was blazing with stars and the music was sublime. Must have sat there for 20 minutes in ecstasy until a cop drove up to see if I was OK. Kind of him, but it broke the spell.
Listening to the Bach cello suites can't be complete until you've heard the recordings made by Casals in the 1920s. These are considered by many to be definitive, and really put the cello suites on the world's musical map.
Before Casals found a copy of the suites in an antique shop and spent the next couple of decades working on them, they had long been thought of as little more than technical exercises for students, and certainly weren't considered to be in the same league as the solo violin sonatas and partitas. The genius of Casals proved otherwise, and has sparked off the many great players and performances around today.
No discussion of the baroque violin can be complete without reference to Bach’s close contemporary Pietro Locatelli, whose virtuoso technique anticipated Paganini (a century later). I’d recommend Elizabeth Wallfisch’s recordings of Locatelli’s set of concertos “L’Arte del Violino”. In some of the highest passages (apparently somewhere between the end of the fingerboard and the bridge) you’d swear that Wallfisch’s fingers had been sharpened to fine points .
Trevor
Yes, Bach. Especially the fugues. And the double concerto. And the Brandenburg concerto. And then there's the concerto for three harpsichords which I heard once and haven't been able to find again. Handel's Water Music of course and I've been trying to play Vivaldi's violin concerto in A minor (gak!).
People keep recomending Yo Yo Ma's Bach cello suites so I really should get it, or at least borrow it.
What is it with the people here and Bach? Some kind of not-so-secret love affair?
Woohoo! Someone finally mentioned Telemann! He has some *superb* compositions. I just got a album of some of his Blaserkonzerte (Wind Concertos), and it is impressive.
I also purchased a 2-CD set of Johann David Heinichen concertos by Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Koln. *speechless* ....Heinichen is awesome! He is not a famous Baroque composer at all, but he should be! Forceful, bubbly, grand, virtuosoistic (is that a word?)...exceptional pieces of music. Goebel and Co. are great musicians, too.
Besides Telemann and Heinichen:
Bach
Handel
Corelli
Vivaldi (sometimes)
Rare bits of Henry Purcell on the radio
Never ever confuse baroque music with so-called classical music. They are totally different kinds of music. And just like ITM, it doesn't really matter *what* they play, but *who* play. Look through this thread: http://thesession.org/discussions/display.php/5357
To repeat Jdave and others' comment, R. Goebel and A. Bylsma are great interpreters of this kind of music. I would add Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord, organ), Kuijken brothers (baroque violin, flute, bass viol), Frans Brueggen (recorder), Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Christophe Rousset (harpsichord), Lutz Kirchhof (lute), Paolo Pandolfo (viol), Emma Kirkby (voice), and many others.
What were actually mentioned above are German and Italian composers. Try Francois Couperin, Michel Blavet, and other French composers. I think French baroque music is quite similar to ITM in that both are danceable. And Spanish harpsichord music is also very interesting: Scarlatti is the most well-known, I think: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005E6V/qid=1110429764/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/104-6444401-4258324
Armand, before you invest in Yo Yo Ma, you might like to check out Pierre Fournier's recording of the solo cello suites, on Archiv. He was a student of P Casals. I am no connoisseur, but friends who own at least half a dozen different versions of these works (including Yo Yo Ma) tried to keep my copy of the Fournier recording when I lent it to them.
As my pa used ta say "If it ain't baroque, don't fix it." I actually love Yo yo Ma and classical guitar. Bach arranged for guitar is great. Then a hot tub and Shiatsu massage with your wife or girlfriend, or both is great with candles and good wine.
Yes, I'd forgotten about the classical guitar - and I used to play it! The Bach cello suites come off well on the guitar, especially no. 5. There is a theory that that suite was written originally for the lute, which accounts for the general sonority of the piece and the requirement that the cello A is best tuned down to G (some of it is quite tricky if you don’t do that retuning).
The Bach Chaconne for solo violin is also mightily impressive on the guitar.
Agree with all the Bach mentioned, would also add his 4 lute suites. Many good recordings available. Paul Galbraith, of Scotland, gave a splendid concert of all 4 on his 8 string guitar, which he holds like a cello, a few years back here in Virginia.
Anyone here remember the late, great Andre Segovia? Wow! He pioneered arranging classical music for the guitar. I believe he had a favorite book of the right thickness he put under his left foot for leg elevation under the guitar for most of his career.
In 1970(-ish) I saw Andres Segovia give a solo concert at Bristol's Colston Hall, a 2000-3000 seater, which was packed for the occasion. Just Segovia sitting alone in a spotlight on the big platform, and no mic (or sheet music for that matter). For the next two hours or so we could hear every note he played in that vast auditorium. He played some Bach, as I remember - the Prelude and Gavotte from the E-major violin suite. Magical.
I've also heard claims that some of the violin works were worked out first on lute. Not likely we'lll ever know for sure. They certainly do sound right on guitar. Segovia's playing of the Chaconne was my first serious musical epiphany.
Of course, Bach. But I have a fascination with Corelli (esp. his Opus 5 violin sonatas) and Guiseppe Taritini, whose violin sonatas have a very fiddle feel to them. Check out Elizabeth Wallfisch's recordings on Hyperion.
While you're all here... Bach's etudes/studies for solo flute, a collection which he adapted (with few changes) in part from a bunch of the cello suites, are bloody marvelous - and difficult - but I've never found a recording, despite many web searches. Anyone hazard a guess why this would be - or perhaps know of a recording that I don't?
I didn't he wrote anything for solo flute. I'd love to hear it. No telling what he wrote that we'll never hear. I remember hearing long ago that some scholar estimated that one-third of Bach's works have been lost.
Just a few unorganized thoughts about all that unplayed and lost Baroque music out there ...
Bach, in his job as Kapellmeister and church organist composed cantatas for every day of the liturgical calendar. Unfortunately, the manuscripts of a good proportion of these cantatas were used by a person or persons unknown for wrapping food, of all things!
The larger part of Beethoven's enormous output is almost never performed. Mozart wrote well over 50 symphonies (the ones numbered after #41 are early works), and only about a dozen are in today's regular repertoire. Likewise with Haydn's 104 symphonies.
Vivaldi wrote over 600 concertos for various instruments, both solo and in combination. How many do we hear now? - the "Four Seasons" (which has probably been recorded over 600 times) plus a few handfuls of other stuff, and that's it.
Hitherto unknown compositions by Vivaldi and other 18c composers are still being discovered in churches, monasteries and libraries in old Europe. For example, Haydn's C major cello concerto was discovered within my lifetime.
Ok, so Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven weren't really Baroque composers ...
Q/Bob, I don't know about the studies, but the Partita for solo flute in A minor BWV 1013 is (was?) available on a Naxos cheapie: JS Bach Flute Sonatas Vol.1 (BWV 1034, 1031, 1013 1032) disc no. 8.553754, flautist Petri Alanko. Unusually for my CD collection, it's on modern flute (a gold Muramatsu) but it's good playing and for a $10 disc it's good value. The partita has an allemande, courante, sarabande and bouree anglaise. I play the bourree for run, the saraband for funerals, and the other two when I need to do penance ... they're a little challenging
Drop me a line if you want the disc and are having any trouble getting it.
Frans Brueggen recorded three of Bach's cello suites on recorder. He's crazy (good). You can listen to Glauber playing some pieces: http://www.woodenflutemaker.com/HeadJoints.html (at the bottom)
Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
What tickles your fancy?
Per me, it would be:
Vivaldi: Four Seasons - Fabio Biondi album
Hopefully soon -> Bach's Cello Suites - Yo Yo Ma album.
Gah, I love it. I should work on composing more in that style, tis fun =]
Cheers and a hopeless mouse,
Armand
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by fiddlinviolinin
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Anything Bach.
Everything Bach.
Esp: Art of the Fugue, Italian Concerto (piano), Bminor Mass, St. Matthew's Passion, Brandenburgs (on period instruments only, please), *all* Organ Toccatta & Fugue's,
I could go on, but I'll stop.
Effin' genius 'at's what 'e is.
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by FyfferGuy
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
... and the St John's Passion...
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by Nell
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Have a listen to Mary Bergin's baroque/traditional band Dordan's album 'Ceol Traidisiunta agus Baroc' .
....oh, and she does a nice version of the Dublin Reel on it as well.
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Renee Fleming has a great C.D. out with Baroque arias. It's phenomenal. I haven't bought it yet but it's on my list.
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by corniwhistler
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
"Bach's Cello Suites - Yo Yo Ma album."
Practically lives in my CD tray; and what Fyffer said.
KFG
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by KFG
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Bach Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould, 1981 recording)
If I could only own one CD, I'd probably make it this one.
Handel flute sonatas (Barthold Kuiken)
Anner Bylsma's recording of the Bach cello suites is nice, too. Played on a period instrument.
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by Tintin
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Bach, Bach and more Bach. The supreme musical being. Especially the solo works for stringed instruments - suites for violin, cello and lute. Amazing stuff. I think the Chaconne from the Dm violin partita is the most awesome piece of music ever composed (but I'm not sure anybody besides Yascha Heifetz and Andres Segovia has ever done it justice). And I use the word "awesome" in its authentic dictionary sense. Playing Bach on the guitar was my main musical and spiritual practice for several years.
Not other Baroque stuff isn't great. It's just that Bach so far transcended everything else as to be, well, awesome.
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by Bob himself
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
This is funny. After saying I was using "awesome" in its authentic dictionary sense, I decided to look it up in a dictionary to see if I was lying. The first usage example for “awe” said, “We felt awe when contemplating the works of Bach.”
So, I rest my case. :^)
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by Bob himself
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Bach! Awesome
Specifically, Concerto in Dm for Two Violins
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by RogueFiddler
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Cor Blimey, strike a light and knock me down with a ten bob note!
I haven't listened to the Double violin Concerto for about ten years. It used to be a real favourite and I'd completely forgotten about it's existence. I shall go and dig it out Toot Sweet!
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by Ottery
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
i am into Handel myself. Probably because he was a great vocal writer. slots in well in this Bach fan club thread lol.
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by marymccaffrey
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Mary, I dig out the 'Messiah' CD set every once in a while. I can't do anything else while I listen to it because some parts are so stunning. It has almost reached warhorse status, with all the Christmas overkill and the "Sing Along Messiah" concerts, but it's quite a chunk of music.
I went through a serious Albioni crush in college, but can't play the albums now because my turntable is no more. Pity. Must buy CDs....
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by Batlady
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
For instrumentals: Vivaldi. All by Vivaldi. Bach. Some Monteverdi, but not operas.
For vocal: Bohumil Pekiel "Missa Pulcherima"
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by EastPole
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Yeah, I neglected to mention Handel's Messiah, mainly because it's so overdone, and Handel pales in comp to Bach, but I absolutely *love* to sing the Messiah every year at those "sing along" concerts -- especially if there's an orchestra as opposed just an organ. My absolute fave section is the "Amen" fugue at the end of "Worthy is the Lamb That was Slain". I sing the bass part (which introduces the motif in the "Amen" fugue) and I know it well enough that I can really listen to the entire sound of that section while I'm singing it ... I'm getting chills just thinking about it ...
That man was a freak of nature as well, though only in his manic spurts.
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by FyfferGuy
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Armand, I hope you mean it's your computer mouse that's hopeless. Otherwise get the poor rodent some therapy. ;)
Vivaldi, practically anything but most especially the Four Seasons. Bach, practically everything but especially the aforementioned concerto for two violins. Handel, Water Music and Fireworks Music in particular. Anything baroque played by Winton Marsalis; those beautiful clear, high trumpet solos are to die for.
Lots of other things I can't remember right off hand; it's one of my favorite musical eras.
# Posted on March 9th 2005 by sara g
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Speaking of Vivaldi, I must mention my personal favorite, the Concerto in Am. Magic!
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by RogueFiddler
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
I agree with the Concerto in Am, Fiddle MeThis =] Sexy stuff! Last thing I ever learned before falling from that place called the Classical world.. Ahh, good times -_-;
Anywho, yes it IS a computer mouse! I love mice! The not-so-plastic kind of course!
Wow, the double violin concerto... I need to dig that up as well =]
Also, Albinoni, damn! His adagio in... G minor? LOVELY. LOVELY.
Cheers,
Armand
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by fiddlinviolinin
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Corelli is a must for anyone who loves expressive baroque music. He started the style that Bach & Vivaldi continued. His Op.5 violin sonatas are great.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000076CW2/104-9236569-1227157?v=glance
Another great composer is Gottfried Finger from London; his Chaconny in F is fantastic.
http://www.arion.de/mp3/MA20002t06.mp3
Also, Divisons on a Ground are great, very close in some ways to Irish music.
http://magnatune.com/artists/music/Classical/Da%20Camera/A%20Celtic%20Celebration/
And of course, Bach's fugues.
http://www.classiccat.net/bach_js/1080.htm
-Andrew Plett
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by Andrew Plett
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Bach definately. Handel, Teleman....
Was driving home one night and took the long way along the ridge so I could listen to a broadcast of the unaccompanied cello suites. At the top of the hill I had to pull over. The sky was blazing with stars and the music was sublime. Must have sat there for 20 minutes in ecstasy until a cop drove up to see if I was OK. Kind of him, but it broke the spell.
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by KateG
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Listening to the Bach cello suites can't be complete until you've heard the recordings made by Casals in the 1920s. These are considered by many to be definitive, and really put the cello suites on the world's musical map.
.
Before Casals found a copy of the suites in an antique shop and spent the next couple of decades working on them, they had long been thought of as little more than technical exercises for students, and certainly weren't considered to be in the same league as the solo violin sonatas and partitas. The genius of Casals proved otherwise, and has sparked off the many great players and performances around today.
No discussion of the baroque violin can be complete without reference to Bach’s close contemporary Pietro Locatelli, whose virtuoso technique anticipated Paganini (a century later). I’d recommend Elizabeth Wallfisch’s recordings of Locatelli’s set of concertos “L’Arte del Violino”. In some of the highest passages (apparently somewhere between the end of the fingerboard and the bridge) you’d swear that Wallfisch’s fingers had been sharpened to fine points
Trevor
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by lazyhound
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Yes, Bach. Especially the fugues. And the double concerto. And the Brandenburg concerto. And then there's the concerto for three harpsichords which I heard once and haven't been able to find again. Handel's Water Music of course and I've been trying to play Vivaldi's violin concerto in A minor (gak!).
People keep recomending Yo Yo Ma's Bach cello suites so I really should get it, or at least borrow it.
What is it with the people here and Bach? Some kind of not-so-secret love affair?
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by Emily Horne
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Woohoo! Someone finally mentioned Telemann! He has some *superb* compositions. I just got a album of some of his Blaserkonzerte (Wind Concertos), and it is impressive.
I also purchased a 2-CD set of Johann David Heinichen concertos by Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Koln. *speechless* ....Heinichen is awesome! He is not a famous Baroque composer at all, but he should be! Forceful, bubbly, grand, virtuosoistic (is that a word?)...exceptional pieces of music. Goebel and Co. are great musicians, too.
Besides Telemann and Heinichen:
Bach
Handel
Corelli
Vivaldi (sometimes)
Rare bits of Henry Purcell on the radio
If ain't Baroque, don't fix it. ;)
~Jonathan
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by jdave
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Never ever confuse baroque music with so-called classical music. They are totally different kinds of music. And just like ITM, it doesn't really matter *what* they play, but *who* play. Look through this thread: http://thesession.org/discussions/display.php/5357
To repeat Jdave and others' comment, R. Goebel and A. Bylsma are great interpreters of this kind of music. I would add Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord, organ), Kuijken brothers (baroque violin, flute, bass viol), Frans Brueggen (recorder), Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Christophe Rousset (harpsichord), Lutz Kirchhof (lute), Paolo Pandolfo (viol), Emma Kirkby (voice), and many others.
What were actually mentioned above are German and Italian composers. Try Francois Couperin, Michel Blavet, and other French composers. I think French baroque music is quite similar to ITM in that both are danceable. And Spanish harpsichord music is also very interesting: Scarlatti is the most well-known, I think: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005E6V/qid=1110429764/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/104-6444401-4258324
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by slainte
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
The Bach partitas played by Rachel Podgren. Baroque violin. It is amazing to hear her play and then to realize that it is solo violin. So beautiful!
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by John Culhane
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
As Armand says, Fabio Biondi is a nice violinist. Andrew Manze is also unique.
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by slainte
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Armand, before you invest in Yo Yo Ma, you might like to check out Pierre Fournier's recording of the solo cello suites, on Archiv. He was a student of P Casals. I am no connoisseur, but friends who own at least half a dozen different versions of these works (including Yo Yo Ma) tried to keep my copy of the Fournier recording when I lent it to them.
Cheers
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by reedy grins
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
As my pa used ta say "If it ain't baroque, don't fix it." I actually love Yo yo Ma and classical guitar. Bach arranged for guitar is great. Then a hot tub and Shiatsu massage with your wife or girlfriend, or both is great with candles and good wine.
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by CeolCairdeas
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Yes, I'd forgotten about the classical guitar - and I used to play it! The Bach cello suites come off well on the guitar, especially no. 5. There is a theory that that suite was written originally for the lute, which accounts for the general sonority of the piece and the requirement that the cello A is best tuned down to G (some of it is quite tricky if you don’t do that retuning).
The Bach Chaconne for solo violin is also mightily impressive on the guitar.
Trevor
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by lazyhound
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Agree with all the Bach mentioned, would also add his 4 lute suites. Many good recordings available. Paul Galbraith, of Scotland, gave a splendid concert of all 4 on his 8 string guitar, which he holds like a cello, a few years back here in Virginia.
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by ceciltguitar
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Anyone here remember the late, great Andre Segovia? Wow! He pioneered arranging classical music for the guitar. I believe he had a favorite book of the right thickness he put under his left foot for leg elevation under the guitar for most of his career.
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by CeolCairdeas
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
In 1970(-ish) I saw Andres Segovia give a solo concert at Bristol's Colston Hall, a 2000-3000 seater, which was packed for the occasion. Just Segovia sitting alone in a spotlight on the big platform, and no mic (or sheet music for that matter). For the next two hours or so we could hear every note he played in that vast auditorium. He played some Bach, as I remember - the Prelude and Gavotte from the E-major violin suite. Magical.
Trevor
# Posted on March 11th 2005 by lazyhound
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Trevor,
I've also heard claims that some of the violin works were worked out first on lute. Not likely we'lll ever know for sure. They certainly do sound right on guitar. Segovia's playing of the Chaconne was my first serious musical epiphany.
# Posted on March 11th 2005 by Bob himself
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Of course, Bach. But I have a fascination with Corelli (esp. his Opus 5 violin sonatas) and Guiseppe Taritini, whose violin sonatas have a very fiddle feel to them. Check out Elizabeth Wallfisch's recordings on Hyperion.
# Posted on March 11th 2005 by Layers
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
While you're all here... Bach's etudes/studies for solo flute, a collection which he adapted (with few changes) in part from a bunch of the cello suites, are bloody marvelous - and difficult - but I've never found a recording, despite many web searches. Anyone hazard a guess why this would be - or perhaps know of a recording that I don't?
# Posted on March 11th 2005 by Q
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
I didn't he wrote anything for solo flute. I'd love to hear it. No telling what he wrote that we'll never hear. I remember hearing long ago that some scholar estimated that one-third of Bach's works have been lost.
# Posted on March 12th 2005 by Bob himself
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Just a few unorganized thoughts about all that unplayed and lost Baroque music out there ...
Bach, in his job as Kapellmeister and church organist composed cantatas for every day of the liturgical calendar. Unfortunately, the manuscripts of a good proportion of these cantatas were used by a person or persons unknown for wrapping food, of all things!
The larger part of Beethoven's enormous output is almost never performed. Mozart wrote well over 50 symphonies (the ones numbered after #41 are early works), and only about a dozen are in today's regular repertoire. Likewise with Haydn's 104 symphonies.
Vivaldi wrote over 600 concertos for various instruments, both solo and in combination. How many do we hear now? - the "Four Seasons" (which has probably been recorded over 600 times) plus a few handfuls of other stuff, and that's it.
Hitherto unknown compositions by Vivaldi and other 18c composers are still being discovered in churches, monasteries and libraries in old Europe. For example, Haydn's C major cello concerto was discovered within my lifetime.
Ok, so Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven weren't really Baroque composers ...
Trevor
# Posted on March 12th 2005 by lazyhound
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Q/Bob, I don't know about the studies, but the Partita for solo flute in A minor BWV 1013 is (was?) available on a Naxos cheapie: JS Bach Flute Sonatas Vol.1 (BWV 1034, 1031, 1013 1032) disc no. 8.553754, flautist Petri Alanko. Unusually for my CD collection, it's on modern flute (a gold Muramatsu) but it's good playing and for a $10 disc it's good value. The partita has an allemande, courante, sarabande and bouree anglaise. I play the bourree for run, the saraband for funerals, and the other two when I need to do penance ... they're a little challenging
Drop me a line if you want the disc and are having any trouble getting it.
# Posted on March 12th 2005 by Tish
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Frans Brueggen recorded three of Bach's cello suites on recorder. He's crazy (good). You can listen to Glauber playing some pieces: http://www.woodenflutemaker.com/HeadJoints.html (at the bottom)
# Posted on March 12th 2005 by slainte
Re: Ya'll who listen to Baroque music...
Dearie me.
I play the bourree anglaise for fun. "Fun". *Fun*!!!
# Posted on March 12th 2005 by Tish