What better music is there.....

[amar]

....than Bach's Goldberg Variations?

in that genre, there's nothing better (at least IMHO ). Bach is my favorite composer.

same here izz, bach is the best.

[Martin Milner]

Rolf Harris singing "Someone's Pinched me Winkles"

More smiles.

[GaryKelly]

Rolf Harris singing "Someone's Pinched me Winkles"

More smiles.

http://www.rolfharris.com/music/lyrics_ ... inched.htm

[peeplj]

Dale, your new avatar rocks!!!!!

Want to come over Friday? We're having some friends for dinner.

--James

[brewerpaul]

Who's playing?

1) Glenn Gould, of course. (Both recordings.)
2) Keith Jarrett, harpsichord.

Don't forget Wanda Landowska.

There's also a terrific organ recording by Alain Gillou on the now defunct Dorian Recordings:http://www.dorian.com/store/main.mvc?Sc ... de=I-ORGAN

I don't know if you can still order from them, but you might find a copy elsewhere.

People: That stunning opening Aria upon which the Goldbergs is based can EASILY be played on a D whistle! You need to half hole a couple of notes, but since the piece is slow, this is not hard. Sounds terrific on mid-size whistles. I play this on every whistle I make-- I figure it can't hurt to have Bach pass through it at least once in it's lifetime. It's a good test of the entire range of a whistle too.

[izzarina]

Dale, your new avatar rocks!!!!!

Want to come over Friday? We're having some friends for dinner.

--James

eeewwwww...... I was just thinking about that when I saw Dale's newest.

[izzarina]

....than Bach's Goldberg Variations?

in that genre, there's nothing better (at least IMHO ). Bach is my favorite composer.

same here izz, bach is the best.

Great minds think alike it seems

[peeplj]

Dale, your new avatar rocks!!!!!

Want to come over Friday? We're having some friends for dinner.

--James

eeewwwww...... I was just thinking about that when I saw Dale's newest.

Well, it would have to be better than turkey spaghetti!!!

Now turkey spaghetti....that is an ewwwwwwwwwww....

--James

[Walden]

Ah! Bacch!

[glauber]

(what better music is there) than Bach's Goldberg Variations?

That's easy. The Bm flute suite has flute in it, which automatically makes it much better than the Goldberg variations.

The Brandenburg concertos are good too, especially when played by Wendy Carlos.

[Nanohedron]

Could you post an ABC?

Here's the whole deal in midi:

http://www.jsbach.net/midi/midi_goldbergvariations.html

Ah, thank you, Clarisse.

[Dale]

Could you post an ABC?

Here's the whole deal in midi:

http://www.jsbach.net/midi/midi_goldbergvariations.html

Ah, thank you, Clarisse.

People will say we're in love.

[brewerpaul]

(what better music is there) than Bach's Goldberg Variations?

That's easy. The Bm flute suite has flute in it, which automatically makes it much better than the Goldberg variations.

The Brandenburg concertos are good too, especially when played by Wendy Carlos.

The Badinerie from the flute suite was adapted by De Dannan into "Rambles of Bach" which is a first rate hornpipe-- tough to play too.

The Brandenburgs are indeed fabulous. I use part of the recorder part of the 2nd for testing whistles. You can play most of the flute part of the 5th on a whistle too.

[Wombat]

Interesting question whether the Goldbderg variations are as good as Western concert music gets. I sort of said yes, provided it's Tureck playing them, but I vacillate between them and Beethoven's mid-to-late string quartets, so long as it's the Busch Quartet or the Vegh's playing them.

For me these two composers climb different peaks. Bach is orderly, serene, structured and logical without compromising content in any way: the perfect classicist. Beethoven is wild, romantic, passionate, otherworldy, pushing sanity as far as it will go: the perfect romantic. It would not be possible to create a work of art that combined the best of both; both achieve perfection, but of very different kinds.

Which I prefer on any given day depends on my mood. I think we are the richer if we can appreciate both, whichever way our temperament makes us lean most often.

[Paul Thomas]

The Brandenburg concertos are good too, especially when played by Wendy Carlos.

[edited to remove an unworth remark. Practice self-censorship! Self-censorship is safe-censorship! (that last bit, there, that was tongue in cheek - an condition which also lacks an adequate emoticon)]

I liked the Brandenburgs better when they were played by musicians. If you like music for machines, then try some which was written for them: Conlon Nancarrow.

Speaking of inscrutable unplayable works, JSB contributed at least one of his own: Die Kunst Der Fuge. First in a long line of gnarly fugues: Beethoven's from the A min. string quartet, Stravinsky's from his concerto for two pianos -- though some contrarian folks might argue the last two weren't really fugues.