Bach's Greatest Works

[DavidW]

Busted!  

(I was just looking up the Wq #'s. )

I think that's the difference between a CPE Bach fan and everyone else-- a Wq # means something to them!

[Franco]

The Art of the Fugue

Call me a pedant.

[Gurn Blanston]

Call me a pedant.

Thanks, Franco. I can sleep again. Crap, I guess I AM a pedant...

[DavidW]

Call me a pedant.

Yeah just terrific, very helpful.  Did you actually want to contribute to the list or not?

[DavidW]

Busted!  

(I was just looking up the Wq #'s. )

You too Gurn, time to pay the piper.  I want my list!

[Dr. Dread]

Haydn next.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Call me a pedant.

Dann Sie müssen sagen: "Die Kunst der Fuge."

[Franco]

Yeah just terrific, very helpful.  Did you actually want to contribute to the list or not?

All mine have been taken.

[DavidW]

Haydn next.

I'm sure Gurn can handle that, and perhaps George can do one for Beethoven, ChamberNut for Brahms and Elgarian for Handel.  We can really have fun with it.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Now, Karl, I'm not a total pedant.   I realize that you guys wouldn't be talking about the London Bach, or the Berlin Bach. Someday though....

If Bach is referred to without further identification, J.S. Bach is always assumed.

Now I know that if one speaks of Tchaikovsky, one must be careful to specify Peter Ilyich or Boris . . . .

[(poco) Sforzando]

I'm sure Gurn can handle that, and perhaps George can do one for Beethoven, ChamberNut for Brahms and Elgarian for Handel.  We can really have fun with it.

Phooey. I claim Beethoven.

[DavidW]

All mine have been taken.

I'm starting to get the feeling that he's a bleeding chunks composer to some and an all consuming passion for others.  Not as much middle ground as you would find for other composers.  Some want to list a handful of works they cherish, others would want to write the whole catalog down.  Maybe I should contribute now.

[Dr. Dread]

Phooey. I claim Beethoven.

Do it.

[DavidW]

Phooey. I claim Beethoven.

That might be better, George would be concerned only with the piano sonatas and variations! (now we'll see if he sees this )

[Opus106]

Interesting you mention this, Navneeth! 

On the Barry Lyndon soundtrack CD, the Adagio movement is played (version with 2 harpsichords), while the part played in the actual movie is the version for oboe (don't remember violin, but I guess it must be).

On second thought, they might have even used a flute rather than an oboe in the movie, if memory serves me right.

BWV 1044, perhaps? It's the concerto for harpsichord, flute and violin. The H has some wonderful passages in the work, and in the second movement the violinist just pizzacatoes [just created that word] along for most of the duration.

Gurn's on the thread. Davey, quick!  Specify J.S. Bach! J.S. Bach!

Call me a pedant.

I thought the second the should be included for an accurate translation of the German.

[karlhenning]

If Bach is referred to without further identification, J.S. Bach is always assumed.

Oui.  Otherwise, we specify (e.g.) the Piscataway Bach

[karlhenning]

That might be better, George would be concerned only with the piano sonatas and variations! (now we'll see if he sees this )

Hah!

[Dr. Dread]

Of course, it's not difficult to just own everything by Beethoven.

[Gurn Blanston]

Oui.  Otherwise, we specify (e.g.) the Piscataway Bach

Or the Leominster Bach...

[karlhenning]

Of course, it's not difficult to just own acquire everything by Beethoven.

Corrected