Bach's Bungalow

[FideLeo]

The viola da gamba sonata is not typical called a trio sonata but has its essential form.

No indeed.  The viola da gamba sonatas were called 'sonate a cembalo e viola da gamba' in contemporary sources, and the trio sonata BWV 1039 is typically called a transcription of the gamba sonata BWV 1027.

[FideLeo]

I don't know. However, BWV 1025, scored for violin and harpsichord, is called Trio in A major. (I'm quoting from Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, p. 357.)

http://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalSource_source_00001140

It's Bach's transcription of a solo 'sonata' (suite) by Weiss.  "Trio..." in another person's hand.  Oh well.  My curiosity is satisfied.    Thank you both.

http://www.youtube.com/v/7AaeJOvf7vI

http://www.youtube.com/v/YxWvJ5obJSs

http://www.youtube.com/v/5yGSyIYmfY8

[Antoine Marchand]

Did Bach call them 'trio' sonatas himself?

Well, not exactly "trio sonatas", but apparently the name "harpsichord trios" was used in the Bach circle:

Writing in the 1770s, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach still admired these pieces: 'The six harpsichord trios are amongst the finest works of my dearly beloved father. They still sound excellent and give me great pleasure, although they are over 50 years old. There are several Adagios in them which even nowadays could not be set in a more singing style.'

IIRC the quote is from a letter to Forkel.

[jlaurson]

Immortal Bach
(via Schickele)

Standing erect, he was two feet wide.

http://www.youtube.com/v/vtW7cu56MRs

[Antoine Marchand]

Two new versions of the Johannes-Passion are announced for the next weeks:

J.S. Bach - St John Passion, BWV245
Mark Padmore (Evangelist), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Jesus), Peter Harvey (Pilatus), Benarda Fink, Joanna Lunn & Katharine Fuge
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, direction
Rec. in Königslutter in 2003
2-CD set, SDG

J.S. Bach - Johannes Passion BWV 245
Maria Keohane, soprano; Carlos Mena, countertenor; Hans Jörg Mammel, tenor; Valerio Contaldo, tenor; Matthias Vieweg, bass; Stephan
MacLeod, bass
Ricercar Consort
Philippe Pierlot
2-CD set, Mirare

[Opus106]

There's also Brüggen's.

Markus Schäfer (Evangelist), Thomas Oliemans (Jesus), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Michael Chance (alto), Marcel Beekman (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Cappella Amsterdam & Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Brüggen (direction)

Glossa

[Antoine Marchand]

There's also Brüggen's.

Markus Schäfer (Evangelist), Thomas Oliemans (Jesus), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Michael Chance (alto), Marcel Beekman (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Cappella Amsterdam & Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Brüggen (direction)

Glossa

Great! Recorded live, as usual with Brüggen. 

[prémont]

One has got to be a hard-boiled completist to think of acquiring three SJP´s in one breath 

[Antoine Marchand]

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Anner Bylsma has recorded the suites twice, both times on Baroque instruments with gut rather than metal strings, thus making for a warmer and more diffuse sound.

Anyway, the "Servais" cello doesn't have all-gut strings, but more exactly metal-overspun gut strings.

[Marc]

One has got to be a hard-boiled completist to think of acquiring three SJP´s in one breath 

Go for it, then!

And don't forget a 'new' SMP by De Nederlandse Bachvereniging & Jos van Veldhoven, expected to be released on Bach's 326th birthday.

Hurrah!

[Coopmv]

Go for it, then!

And don't forget a 'new' SMP by De Nederlandse Bachvereniging & Jos van Veldhoven, expected to be released on Bach's 326th birthday.

Hurrah!

Will it be released in SACD format?  I am still trying to nail down Veldhoven's last SMP, which has turned out to be much harder to find ...

[Antoine Marchand]

One has got to be a hard-boiled completist to think of acquiring three SJP´s in one breath 

Guilty. 

I will probably purchase all those three versions in the future, but at the moment I desesperately need just one of them.     

[Marc]

Will it be released in SACD format?

Yep. Probably hybrid (I hope).

[Opus106]

Excellent. Thanks for the links, James.

[Coopmv]

To those who don't have the original classic recordings .. just spotted this new box that will have it all under one roof.

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http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4779510

The Brandenburg Concertos on this set can conceivably have better SQ than the first remastered BC set, as the original recording was analog and remastering technology has made tremendous strides since the early 1980's.

[FideLeo]

The Brandenburg Concertos on this set can conceivably have better SQ than the first remastered BC set, as the original recording was analog and remastering technology has made tremendous strides since the early 1980's.

If you mean the BC set by EC (English Concert) , no the original recording was not analogue, but rather early digital recording.

[Coopmv]

If you mean the BC set by EC (English Concert) , no the original recording was not analogue, but rather early digital recording.

Are you sure?  I have this recording on LP (besides a twofer CD), which does not say digital.  During the period leading up to the ultimate near-demise of LP's when record companies released many recordings both on LP and CD, any recordings that were made digitally but released on LP would have "Digital Recording" prominently displayed on the LP jacket but I did not find such label ...

[Bulldog]

If you mean the BC set by EC (English Concert) , no the original recording was not analogue, but rather early digital recording.

Yes, it was digital all the way.

[Opus106]

BWV 565 played on a glass harp

http://www.youtube.com/v/XKRj-T4l-e8

[Scarpia]

Working on my traversal of the complete works of Bach.  I'm up to BWV 3.     Seriously, that is a fine piece, particularly the duet for soprano and alto (I think, maybe two sopranos) with oboe d'amore.  Astonishing counterpoint among those two voices.   I'm listening to Rilling.  What is the finest recorded performance of that piece?