serendipity
Bumped into this last night. Couldn’t take my ears off it. One of the finest performances of Bach’s keyboard music I’ve heard.
Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, No. 1-12
Sara Daneshpour (piano), 2024
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other day, Chicago
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Contrapunctus I-XIV; Daniil Trifonov (1991-, piano), live, published 2023
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor; Hidemi Suzuki (cello), live, Netherlands (Amsterdam), 2017
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radio
Speaking of “never enough,” the annual Bach Festival on WKCR-FM (Columbia University)—one of my favorite musical events of the year—runs through midnight New Year’s Eve.
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 1 in G major for Unaccompanied Cello; Yo-Yo Ma (1955-, cello), live (Great Smoky Mountains), published 9/7/23
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alone
Rose Wollman (viola), live (performing the program on Loop: Ligeti’s Inspiration & Legacy [Acis, 2022]),* Chicago, 8/20/23
*Program:
I
1. Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: I. Prelude (Arr. for Viola)
2. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: I. Hora Lunga
3. Garth Knox, Ritorno
II
4. Giuseppe Tartini, Violin Sonata XVII in D Major, B. D2: IV. Furlana (Arr. for Viola)
5. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: II. Loop
6. Alexander Mansour, Loop for Solo Viola and Electronics
III
7. Domenico Gabrielli, Ricercar for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Minor (Arr. for Viola)
8. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: III. Facsar
9. Rose Wollman, Wanderlust
IV
10. Arcangelo Corelli, Violin Sonata, Op. 5, No. 6: III. Allegro (Arr. for Viola)
11. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: IV. Prestissimo con sordino
12. Atar Arad, Caprice Fourteen (Gyorgy)
V
13. Georg Philipp Telemann, Fantasia for Violin Without Bass No. 12 in A Minor, TWV 40:25: I. Moderato (Arr. for Viola)
14. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: V. Lamento
15. Melia Watras, Blue Rose
VI
16. Franz Biber, Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas: 16. Passacaglia in G Minor (Arr. for Viola)
17. György Ligeti, Sonata for Viola Solo: VI. Chaconne chromatique
18. Natalie Williams, Ciklus
never enough
Hearing the right music at the right time can alter the trajectory of your day, as I found, again, yesterday, listening to this.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), piano
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
serendipity
What a joy, last night, to bump into this.
Perfect? No.
Exhilarating? Yes.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 5 in C minor for Unaccompanied Cello: Isabelle Nichols (cello), live, Houston (Rice University), 2022
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like nobody else
Glenn Gould (1932-1982, piano), live (studio [CBC broadcast]), 1955: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Fifteen Three-Part Inventions
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 1 in B-flat major: Maria João Pires (piano), live, Portugal (Évora), 1987
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Musical Offering: Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall, cond.), published 2018
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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful / thing in the world
—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Route”
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