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Mandryka

#101
June 29, 2009, 12:48:43 AM
Quote from: Coopmv on June 28, 2009, 01:51:00 PM
I do not have a shortwave radio to receive BBC.  Even if I did, the SQ would have been horrendous anyway ...

If you have a broadband router get yourself an Internet Radio.

These things are fantastic -- I  enjoy speaking and listening to French and so I use one to get French Radio. Sound quality is great.

If you're interestied PM me and I'll let you know the brand I bought -- it works well for me.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Dr. Dread

#102
June 29, 2009, 05:26:16 AM
My only rule for Bach is to listen to as much as possible, as often as possible.

dirkronk

#103
June 29, 2009, 05:46:20 AM Last Edit: June 30, 2009, 04:36:07 AM by dirkronk
Quote from: Spitvalve on June 28, 2009, 12:51:42 AM
Another way of "listening" to Bach is to play him yourself.

Ah...if only! Alas, I do not read music. My mother played piano but the post-WWII tract house in which I grew up was far too small to accommodate even her upright, which was sold to a neighbor before I was big enough to sit and "plunk" at the thing. Much later, I took up guitar and 5-string banjo and actually managed to pick out a few Bach and Scarlatti tunes on those. Still, most of my learning was "by ear," by Mel Bay chord book and in a few instances by tablature, but never by standard musical notation. This musical illiteracy is regrettable, of course, but I compensated by learning to play the turntable...and in that manner, I have pursued an appreciation of the classics despite my handicap.
;D

Dirk

Coopmv

#104
June 29, 2009, 05:02:17 PM
Quote from: dirkronk on June 29, 2009, 05:46:20 AM
This musical illiteracy is regrettable, of course, but I compensated by learning to play the turntable...and in that manner, I have pursued an appreciation of the classics despite my handicap.
;D

Dirk

Same here.  I have learned to play at least half-dozen of TT's.  From straight-arm to linear-trackers ...    ;D

marvinbrown

#105
July 02, 2009, 10:08:17 AM


  Well I believe I have got you all beat (although I risk getting slammed by our Bach expert Don (Bulldog)) for posting this) but I listened to the entire Bach sacred cantatas (Leonhardt/Harnoncourt) straight through over a period of 2 months (Jan/Feb this year) How's that for a feast  ;D??

  marvin

Bulldog

#106
July 02, 2009, 11:02:58 AM
Quote from: marvinbrown on July 02, 2009, 10:08:17 AM

  Well I believe I have got you all beat (although I risk getting slammed by our Bach expert Don (Bulldog)) for posting this) but I listened to the entire Bach sacred cantatas (Leonhardt/Harnoncourt) straight through over a period of 2 months (Jan/Feb this year) How's that for a feast  ;D??

  marvin

No slamming from the Bulldog - just congratulations!

Josquin des Prez

#107
July 02, 2009, 01:31:43 PM
I'm sorry to say but i don't think that after almost three hundred years there's much left to be feasting on.

Bulldog

#108
July 02, 2009, 01:45:27 PM
Quote from: Josquin des Prez on July 02, 2009, 01:31:43 PM
I'm sorry to say but i don't think that after almost three hundred years there's much left to be feasting on.

Sure there is, for each new generation of Bach listeners.

Josquin des Prez

#109
July 02, 2009, 04:14:55 PM
Quote from: Bulldog on July 02, 2009, 01:45:27 PM
Sure there is, for each new generation of Bach listeners.

Yes but you are dog, you can still munch on the bones.

Coopmv

#110
July 02, 2009, 07:36:14 PM
Quote from: marvinbrown on July 02, 2009, 10:08:17 AM

  Well I believe I have got you all beat (although I risk getting slammed by our Bach expert Don (Bulldog)) for posting this) but I listened to the entire Bach sacred cantatas (Leonhardt/Harnoncourt) straight through over a period of 2 months (Jan/Feb this year) How's that for a feast  ;D??

  marvin

Nothing to be ashamed of.  It will probably take me a year to finish my Harnoncourt's Bach Cantatas, which I bought in the past February but the set is still in its cellophane ...    ;D

marvinbrown

#111
July 03, 2009, 12:40:55 AM Last Edit: July 03, 2009, 12:43:16 AM by marvinbrown
Quote from: Coopmv on July 02, 2009, 07:36:14 PM
Nothing to be ashamed of.  It will probably take me a year to finish my Harnoncourt's Bach Cantatas, which I bought in the past February but the set is still in its cellophane ...    ;D

 OH No!  I suggest you remove the cellophane and dive right in!  As you probably know they are 60 CDs in total.  If you listen to one a day as I did, you can go through the set in 2 months easy.   I love the interpretation.  It is raw and earnest.  True to Bach's intentions, those cantatas are sung by a Choir of boys.  What is astonishing is that there is at least one thing (be it a mood, an aria, a melody etc.) that is delightful in each and every cantata.  You will come to find that no two cantatas (they number close to 200  :o) are identical and the quality of the music is consistently high.  They say Herr Bach  0:) is a Titan of Westerin Art- those cantatas are a testament to that!  

 Happy Listening  8)

marvin  

Coopmv

#112
July 03, 2009, 04:24:53 AM
Quote from: marvinbrown on July 03, 2009, 12:40:55 AM
 OH No!  I suggest you remove the cellophane and dive right in!  As you probably know they are 60 CDs in total.  If you listen to one a day as I did, you can go through the set in 2 months easy.   I love the interpretation.  It is raw and earnest.  True to Bach's intentions, those cantatas are sung by a Choir of boys.  What is astonishing is that there is at least one thing (be it a mood, an aria, a melody etc.) that is delightful in each and every cantata.  You will come to find that no two cantatas (they number close to 200  :o) are identical and the quality of the music is consistently high.  They say Herr Bach  0:) is a Titan of Westerin Art- those cantatas are a testament to that!  

 Happy Listening  8)

marvin  

It is not that I have not been listening to CD's.  I have been zipping through many CD's as fast as I can but cannot whittle down the 150 or so unplayed CD's since new purchases keep coming in.  I particularly enjoy listening to Bach Cantatas during the winter months ...   ;D

Bulldog

#113
July 03, 2009, 11:16:11 AM
Quote from: Coopmv on July 03, 2009, 04:24:53 AM
It is not that I have not been listening to CD's.  I have been zipping through many CD's as fast as I can but cannot whittle down the 150 or so unplayed CD's since new purchases keep coming in.  I particularly enjoy listening to Bach Cantatas during the winter months ...   ;D

What's your listening preference in the summer months?

Coopmv

#114
July 03, 2009, 02:21:39 PM
Quote from: Bulldog on July 03, 2009, 11:16:11 AM
What's your listening preference in the summer months?

Piano works, symphonies and Handel's oratorios/operas.  I will listen through 2 sets of Beethoven Piano Sonatas by Wilhelm Backhaus and Wilhelm Kempff (the mono set and the third set by Kempff in my collection).  The Michelangeli's set is on order.  I tend to be a pianophile during the summer months ...   ;D

marvinbrown

#115
July 05, 2009, 12:52:58 PM
Quote from: Coopmv on July 03, 2009, 04:24:53 AM
It is not that I have not been listening to CD's.  I have been zipping through many CD's as fast as I can but cannot whittle down the 150 or so unplayed CD's since new purchases keep coming in.  I particularly enjoy listening to Bach Cantatas during the winter months ...   ;D

  I do not know exactly how to respond to that Coopmv  8), only to say that you should take your time and savour these pieces. "Zipping" through these cantatas would be doing them and yourself a disservice  ;)!


   marvin

Coopmv

#116
July 05, 2009, 01:08:46 PM
Quote from: marvinbrown on July 05, 2009, 12:52:58 PM
  I do not know exactly how to respond to that Coopmv  8), only to say that you should take your time and savour these pieces. "Zipping" through these cantatas would be doing them and yourself a disservice  ;)!


   marvin

I hear you.  But when you live a very compressed life and have thousands of recordings, there is no time to savor every piece in your collection.  Perhaps only people who have lots of free time on their hand should have large music collections.     :(

FideLeo

#117
July 06, 2009, 05:08:25 AM
Quote from: Coopmv on July 05, 2009, 01:08:46 PM

Perhaps only people who have lots of free time on their hand should have large music collections.     :(


Words of wisdom.  Not what record companies and their producers like to hear, however.  ;)
HIP for all and all for HIP! Harpsichord for Bach, fortepiano for Beethoven and pianoforte for Brahms!

robnewman

#118
July 06, 2009, 12:36:57 PM Last Edit: July 07, 2009, 12:49:52 AM by robnewman
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





Bulldog

#119
July 06, 2009, 01:43:10 PM
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=IgvWoq3HYrQ&feature=related


What happened to the Gigue?
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