Thursday, June 13th

by musicclipoftheday

Speaking of Bach, last night, as I was working on the closing argument I’ll be giving today in a federal bribery-conspiracy trial, it was a great joy—and a great comfort—to be able to listen to this.

Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I; Andrei Gavrilov (piano), playing and talking (Preludes & Fugues Nos. 1-12); Joanna MacGregor (piano), playing and talking (Preludes & Fugues Nos. 13-24); TV (BBC), 2000

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[L]istening to music for an hour or two every evening doesn’t deprive me of the silence—the music is the silence coming true.

—Philip Roth, The Human Stain