Hey, Community gang, I’m working up a new Community-driven playlist for next month with a companion blog. I’m always so impressed with your passionate music posts, and I thought it’d be fun to share your thoughts on some of the prominent artists and selections I’ll feature. So then…drumroll
All submissions are welcomed: subjective soliloquies, impassioned impressions, obsessive odes, feverish free-form fusillades, scintillating scholarly shoutouts, academic asides, expert essays, first experiences from your personal music journeys — it’s your thing, do whatcha wanna do. I’ll run them; there are no wrong answers.
Post here in the thread, or feel free to message me at @jamie. Please note that sharing means you’re okay with us publishing your wonderful music comments on our blog, etc.
Given the sheer vastness of Bach’s creative output, I was thinking about where to start. There are arias in the ‘St. Matthew Passion’ such as ‘Erbame Dich’, or the ‘Black Pearl’ (Variation 25) of ‘The Goldberg Variations’ which show just how much beauty can be found in Bach’s works.
But Bach is also thrilling, and I would start with the Concertos, especially the Keyboard Concertos.
Also containing a very fine account of the Brandenburg Concertos, Trevor Pinnock’s directed account of the ‘Concerto for 4 Harpsichords, Strings and Continuo in A Minor, BWV1065’, borrowing heavily from Vivaldi (Track 13, Disc 6 here) is a great starting place.
And for ‘white-knuckle’ Baroque, Reinhard Goebel’s account the second Brandenburg Concerto (my favourite) is not just dazzling, it is genuinely exciting (Track 5, Disc 1 here).
Mr.Flibble
(Uncle Arnie fries them alive with his hex vision)
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