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robnewman

#120
July 07, 2009, 12:51:23 AM

Bach: Partita No.4 in D major BWB 828,
Gigue
Grigorij Sokolov,
Live Performance
Munich, November 15th 1990.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46PgAog8OR4&feature=related

robnewman

#121
July 07, 2009, 12:54:39 AM

Bach: Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein,
Chorale Prelude BWV 734a
Grigorij Sokolov, Soloist

Live - Munich, November 15th 1990.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IykgpJ7WCs&NR=1

robnewman

#122
July 07, 2009, 02:19:26 AM

Cantata 131
"Aus der Tiefe rufe ich",
Chor - "Meine Seele harret"
Philippe Herreweghe
Collegium Vocale, Ghent

Oh, my goodness !! Simply awesome !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzN1Tt9ZiCk&feature=related

Holden

#123
July 07, 2009, 02:10:06 PM
Oh, no, now you've started me...............

I love Bach and play his works quite often.
Cheers

Holden

robnewman

#124
July 08, 2009, 06:29:14 AM Last Edit: July 08, 2009, 06:31:46 AM by robnewman
Quote from: Holden on July 07, 2009, 02:10:06 PM
Oh, no, now you've started me...............

I love Bach and play his works quite often.

Hi there Holden,

This music is a wonderful consolation in these troubled times. I too love it dearly.



Holden

#125
July 08, 2009, 09:14:54 PM
Quote from: robnewman on July 08, 2009, 06:29:14 AM
Hi there Holden,

This music is a wonderful consolation in these troubled times. I too love it dearly.





Rob, the music of Bach got me through my only (I hope) bout of clinical depression and it is why I love it so much. It took away the need for any form of medication and while it took longer I feel that it had a more permanent effect.
Cheers

Holden

robnewman

#126
July 09, 2009, 07:51:12 AM Last Edit: July 10, 2009, 01:16:05 AM by robnewman
Quote from: Holden on July 08, 2009, 09:14:54 PM
Rob, the music of Bach got me through my only (I hope) bout of clinical depression and it is why I love it so much. It took away the need for any form of medication and while it took longer I feel that it had a more permanent effect.

Wonderful, Holden, and rest assured He has given us a strong mind. It is the only body of music I know which is attached to one man but which has escaped fanaticism and crude commercialism and which remains, till now, far beyond human expectation or knowledge. A friend of mine in Italy recently said he wanted to take up 'truck driving' after hearing a performance of the Partita Number 1 in B Flat for Keyboard. (And he is a talented pianist). I told him this feeling was perfectly healthy. LOL. (He laughed too).

J.S. Bach
English Suite No.2,
Bourrée I/II
BWV 807
Friedrich Gulda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAzPUt82Y_E&feature=related

And -

Concerto BWV 1061/3
Fuga
Trevor Pinnock
English Concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByLvd1HoCac

(I once saw Trevor Pinnock in Westminster rehearsing this piece with others for a performance. One of the most astonishing movements in all of music. It was amazing).


Mandryka

#127
July 09, 2009, 09:27:44 AM
Quote from: robnewman on July 06, 2009, 12:36:57 PM
One of the very finest pianists of our times. The Russian Grigory Sokolov. Here in a German live concert with Bach's Prelude in B Minor. Sokolov has the most marvellous technique and almost everything he plays sounds original. Goodness, he even plays a wrong note around 32 seconds in to the piece ! But his interpretations are always phenomenal.

(Sokolov recently refused to supply finger prints with his visa application for a series of concerts in the UK, saying that such a request was worse than the Soviet Union and describing the request as 'paranoia appealing to paranoia'. But that's Sokolov. A wonderful musician).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgvWoq3HYrQ&feature=related

And here is the Gigue from Partita 4 (live) in 1990 - Germany


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46PgAog8OR4&feature=related







That partita is maybe my favourite piece of music.

I would be very interested to know if there is a way to hear Sokolov play the rest of it.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

robnewman

#128
July 10, 2009, 03:37:03 AM Last Edit: July 10, 2009, 03:38:55 AM by robnewman

Concerto in D Minor
BWV 1063/3
Allegro

Il Giardino Armonico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAAquFs6Tfc&feature=related

marvinbrown

#129
July 10, 2009, 06:03:50 AM
Quote from: robnewman on July 07, 2009, 02:19:26 AM
Cantata 131
"Aus der Tiefe rufe ich",
Chor - "Meine Seele harret"
Philippe Herreweghe
Collegium Vocale, Ghent

Oh, my goodness !! Simply awesome !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzN1Tt9ZiCk&feature=related



  This is as close to God as we are ever going to get  0:) ..........

  marvin

DavidRoss

#130
July 10, 2009, 06:38:25 AM
Any time is a good time to feast or to snack on Bach.  I doubt a week ever goes by that I don't listen to something by him.  Just turned up on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/v/0dwgIadE3IM&feature=related

Quote from: robnewman on July 06, 2009, 12:36:57 PMSokolov recently refused to supply finger prints with his visa application for a series of concerts in the UK, saying that such a request was worse than the Soviet Union and describing the request as 'paranoia appealing to paranoia'.

So Sokolov is insane.  I've never heard his Bach, but insanity did not seem to hurt Gould's Bach. 
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

robnewman

#131
July 10, 2009, 10:33:36 AM
Quote from: DavidRoss on July 10, 2009, 06:38:25 AM
Any time is a good time to feast or to snack on Bach.  I doubt a week ever goes by that I don't listen to something by him.  Just turned up on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/v/0dwgIadE3IM&feature=related

So Sokolov is insane.  I've never heard his Bach, but insanity did not seem to hurt Gould's Bach. 

No, Sokolov is NOT insane. He is definitely one of the few sane people in this world. He complained that British officialdom demanded that he present fingerprints in order to enter the UK. And he condemned that beaurocracy (rightly) as sheer humbug and nonsense.

Sanity seems to consist of being a heretic in the eyes of the world. And, speaking of Bach.....LOL  :)




robnewman

#132
July 10, 2009, 11:03:22 AM


Thank You for the time here !!

Himmelfahrtsoratorium
BWV 11/1
Coro
Masaaki Suzuki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZL6-gJha7U&feature=related

Scarpia

#133
July 10, 2009, 11:08:02 AM
This one is a particular favorite lately.



Keyboard fugues (some from the WTC, some originally for organ) of Bach transcribed for brass quintet.  This is Bach paradise, the clarity of counterpoint in these arrangements is unsurpassed.   Particularly impressive are the great organ fugues, which in these performances have a stunning transparency as well as a feel of authenticity.  Gorgeously performed and recorded.  Each Bach fugue is followed by a fugue by Shostakovich in the same key, as if to prove by comparison how great a genius Bach really was.

DavidRoss

#134
July 10, 2009, 11:58:08 AM
Quote from: robnewman on July 10, 2009, 10:33:36 AM
No, Sokolov is NOT insane. He is definitely one of the few sane people in this world.
You vouching for anyone's sanity is like Bernie Madoff vouching for another's integrity.  Sokolov must be a fruitcake of the first order.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

robnewman

#135
July 10, 2009, 01:11:29 PM Last Edit: July 10, 2009, 01:13:38 PM by robnewman
Quote from: DavidRoss on July 10, 2009, 11:58:08 AM
You vouching for anyone's sanity is like Bernie Madoff vouching for another's integrity.  Sokolov must be a fruitcake of the first order.

Fortunately, music lovers think very differently. As for the rest, who cares ? Mediocrity has many disciples.

:)



robnewman

#136
July 14, 2009, 06:18:33 AM

J.S. Bach
Cantata
Opening Chorus
"Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild"
BWV 79/1

Leipzig
Neue Bachsche Collegium Musicum
Thomanerchor Leipzig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmio2ZdUm_A

:)

DavidRoss

#137
July 14, 2009, 08:06:50 AM
Quote from: robnewman on July 10, 2009, 01:11:29 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on July 10, 2009, 11:58:08 AM
You vouching for anyone's sanity is like Bernie Madoff vouching for another's integrity.  Sokolov must be a fruitcake of the first order.
Fortunately, music lovers think very differently. As for the rest, who cares ? Mediocrity has many disciples.

Music lovers may enjoy Sokolov's pianism without regard to his infantile nuttiness, just as they may enjoy Zimerman's pianism, or Gould's, or Scriabin's compositions, or Wagner's music dramas.  Just because an ignorant wacko can do one thing well does not make him any less ignorant or wacko...though it might offer a small measure of redemption for an otherwise pointless life tragically wasted through untreated mental illness.

Is there anything you can do well?
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

robnewman

#138
July 14, 2009, 09:58:46 AM
No, there is nothing I can do well of myself. I rely completely on goodwill.

Thank You

karlhenning

#139
July 14, 2009, 10:07:03 AM
Quote from: robnewman on July 10, 2009, 01:11:29 PM
Fortunately, music lovers think very differently.

David is a music lover.  You see how your remark implies a false dichotomy?

Tin Foil Hats:  Gimme two!
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