Bach and Busoni -- two names that are interlinked for ever.
Busoni's transcriptions of Bach's works for piano are still very popular.
But how did he play an original Bach piece himself?
Judge for yourself in the only (acoustic) recording available.
Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I
Prelude & Fugue no. 1 in C major BWV 846
Recorded in 1922.
Added: June 29, 2008 Runtime: 03:58 Plays: 3,265 Comments: 2
Bach and Busoni -- two names that are interlinked for ever.
Busoni's transcriptions of Bach's works for piano are still very popular.
But how did he play an original Bach piece himself?
Judge for yourself in the only (acoustic) recording available.
Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I
Prelude & Fugue no. 1 in C major BWV 846
Recorded in 1922.
Edwin Fisher was the first pianist to record the complete Fugues and Preludes of Bach.
Listen to his superb articulation of the D Major Prelude and his magisterial performance of the G Minor Prelude. Also notice his judicious use of the pedal.
Glenn Gould plays Johann Sebastian BACH's Goldberg Varioations, 3rd part of the video
1st Part: 18:54
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2nd Part: 15:58
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Glenn Gould plays Johann Sebastian BACH's Goldberg Varioations, 2nd part of the video
1st Part: 18:54
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone.
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
with Mstislav Rostropovich, cello continuo.
Filmed in 1974.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata BWV 13 "Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen"
part of aria B "Ächzen und erbärmlich Weinen"
Aber wer gen Himmel siehet
Und sich da um Trost bemühet,
Dem kann leicht ein Freudenlicht
In der Trauerbrust erscheinen.
yet he who looks towards heaven
and concerns himself there for comfort,
for him a light of joy can easily
illuminate the sorrowful breast.
translation by Pamela Dellal
J. S. Bach occupies a pivotal place in the history of music. His compositions reprensents both the height of the Baroque and the beginning of the Modern Age of music.
Filmed in Leipzig, London and America,
this documentary both fascinating anf authoritative features specialy-filmed extracts
with Jonh Eliot Grandiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, performing the Mass in B minor,
Andras Schiff playing the Goldberg Variations,
Jacques Loussier improvising on the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
as well as demonstration by Ton Koopman, Tini Mathot, Joanna Macgregor and the Thomanerchor of Leipzig.
Biographical and critical commentary is provided by leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff and Robert Marshall,
while Charles Rosen and Jonathan Miller dicuss Bach's masterpiece St. Mathew Passion.
Introduction sentences from the documentary;
When the biologist Lois Thomas was asked what message he thought mankind should take to other civilizations on the space;
he replied;
"I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach;
but
that
would be
boasting."
Extrait d'un Film de Jean-Louis Guillermou très bien documenté et réalisé sur ce Grand Homme :
"Il était une fois Jean-Sébastien Bach"
"Bach - BWV 0147 - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
Münchener Bach Choir et Orchestre dirigés par Karl Richter
Johann Sebastian Bach - Weihnachts Oratorium (Christmas Oratorio) (BWV 248):
First part / For the First Day of Christmas.
1. Chor.
Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage,
Rühmet, was heute der Höchste getan!
Lasset das Zagen, verbannet die Klage,
Stimmet voll Jauchzen und Fröhlichkeit an!
Dienet dem Höchsten mit herrlichen Chören,
Laßt uns den Namen des Herrschers verehren!
Celebrate, rejoice, rise up and praise the time,
glorify what the Highest has done today!
Abandon despair, banish laments,
sound forth full of delight and happiness!
Serve the Highest with glorious choruses,
let us honor the name of the Supreme Ruler!
Akademie für Alte Musik.
Rias Kammerchor.
Dorothea Röshmann (Soprano).
Sybilla Rubens (Soprano).
Maria Cristina Kiehr (Soprano).
Andreas Scholl (Alto).
Bernard Fink (Alto).
Werner Güra (Tenor).
Gerd Türk (Tenor)
Klaus Häger (Basse).
Peter Koy (Basse).
Dir. René Jacobs.
English subtitles from Anna Magdalena Bach's writings you hear in this video about his husband Johann Sebastian BACH.
"Ever since his youth, he had
been moved by a strong desire
to hear as many good organists
as possible, so that from Luneburg,
when he was still at school,
he often went on foot to Hamburg.
And he was, not 18 years old,
called as organist
of the New Church in Arnstadt.
From there, he once made,
on foot, a journey to Lobeck,
to hear the famous organist,
Herr Dietrich Buxtehude.
He was then called as organist
in Mahlhausen;
and very soon as organist
to the court of Weimar,
where His gracious Lord's pleasure
at his playing incited him
to try out everything possible
in the art of playing the organ.
He also knew thoroughly
the construction of organs
and had once been invited
by the University of Leipzig
to examine the new organ
of St. Paul's Church.
But as cantor,
he had no duty as organist.
He was the senior teacher
at the St. Thomas School,
after the rector and the vice-rector.
And since this school provided
the music for four churches,
he had to apply all possible care
so that the boys
who were capable of singing
were well-instructed therein.
In the New Church
and St. Peter's
came boys who had to sing
only motets and chorales;
and in the two main churches,
St. Thomas and St. Nicholas,
those concerned
with other concert music.
He had the supervision
of the organists
and of the town pipers
and violinists
who had to work there
with the boys,
and he had to provide
concert music
for the Divine Service
every Sunday,
the last three Sundays of Advent
and Sundays in Lent excepted.
Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost
were celebrated for three days,
and the music performed
in the morning service at one church
was performed again
during Vespers at the other church.
The same at New Year, Epiphany,
Ascension, Trinity,
St. John's Day, Michaelmas,
and Reformation Day,
as well as the three feasts of Mary,
and the renewal
of the town council.
Besides the Passion music
for Vespers on Good Friday,
the Kyrie, Gloria and Sanctus
were also concertized at times,
and the Latin Magnificat
for Christmas.
Death robbed us soon of our firstborn,
Christiana Sophia Henrietta,
and Christian Gottlieb,
our second son.
I had a new clavier book,
which Sebastian had started
for me with two new suites.
The next year
for the Michaelmas fair,
he had such a suite
engraved in copper,
as the first partita
of a clavier practice.
It was the first composition
that he had printed.
He published a partita
every year, up to five,
which he had printed together
with a sixth as Opus I.2
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