Dave A Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Downloaded the 128k version of this and we shall see how it sounds later today. My favorite version so far has been by E Power Biggs. Agree with Thaddeus and look forward to these. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 21 hours ago, Dave A said: Agree with Thaddeus and look forward to these. It's become a whole family affair and part of our "music appreciation" efforts in the homeschool curriculum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted December 29, 2019 Author Share Posted December 29, 2019 Prelude and fugue in D minor, BWV 539 And a discussion (in Dutch with English subtitles) of this prelude and fugue by the organist: Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted January 5, 2020 Author Share Posted January 5, 2020 Fugue in C minor, BWV 575 "A capricious, crazy piece" by Bach. ...and a discussion by the organist of this piece (in Dutch with English subtitles). Note that this commentary is a bit louder than the foregoing video... Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted January 5, 2020 Author Share Posted January 5, 2020 Note that we're embarking upon some lesser-known Bach preludes and fugues, so the choices of YouTube videos for these Bach compositions are getting a bit less voluminous to choose from. The last two selections are from the Netherlands J.S. Bach Society that is specifically aiming toward videoing all Bach compositions. So we're probably going to see more Dutch videos and commentaries in the future--at least until we shift gears into non-prelude & fugue compositions by Bach. Bach wrote many hours of keyboard and organ compositions, not to mention those transcribed from his compositions for other instruments to organ, as we saw last week with BWV 539 which was originally for violin. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted January 12, 2020 Author Share Posted January 12, 2020 Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 551 Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted January 26, 2020 Author Share Posted January 26, 2020 Well I missed last week's Bach prelude & fugue fix, so this week, we'll see two to make up for last week: Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BWV 533 ("Cathedral") Prelude & Fugue in C, BWV 531 ("Luneburg") Enjoy! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 549 Looks like he's playing in cold country--without a heater... Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted February 9, 2020 Author Share Posted February 9, 2020 Fugue in B minor on a Theme of Corelli, BWV 579 Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted February 9, 2020 Author Share Posted February 9, 2020 Some of you might not know what a fugue is. The following 9-minute video will explain it: Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546 Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Bach! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, BWV 534 This is a particularly nice performance of this prelude & fugue. Enjoy! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 Fantasia in C Major, BWV 570 The above is a short piece, such that today we have another Bach fantasia and partial fugue, this time in C minor... Fantasia and Unfinished Fugue in C minor, BWV 562 Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles T Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 On 12/15/2019 at 11:51 AM, Chris A said: 'Gigue' Fugue in G Major, BWV 577 This recording gets a bit strident towards the end, probably due to the "mutation stops" (otherwise referred to as fractional stops) way up on top of the principal stops used on the manual. These stops are very difficult to record without that stridency, and depend on low phase distortion in the microphone and digital recorder front end. (It probably doesn't help that YouTube converts lossless recordings to lossy AAC, but that's the deal...). The "gigue" or "jig" fugue by Bach...Enjoy! Chris Virgil Fox used to have a blast with this one all the time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 16 hours ago, Charles T said: Virgil Fox used to have a blast with this one all the time! When Mr. Fox came to town to stay for AGO recitals (TCU's Ed Landreth Hall in Fort Worth), he typically stayed at Emmet Smith's residence--who was also my mother's organ professor at TCU and friend of the family. Mr. Fox apparently loved Sue's (Emmet's wife's) cooking. He reportedly used to call her "Sue-baby". Sue Smith was an extremely good cook; I loved eating there, too. Chris 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted March 8, 2020 Author Share Posted March 8, 2020 Fugue C minor (Fuge über ein Thema von Giovanni Legrenzi), BWV 574 Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 The music sure sounds good this morning.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave A Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 I found the mother lode of Bach last night. Recorded from organs built from 1755 back to 1675 and the few I have played sounded really good. From the pictures it looks like these organs are not in those giant Churches so the perceived muddiness and echoing I hear often was absent. It will take days to listen to it all and you download the hi-res version it is a 9.6gb zip file. Really a joy to play these on a big honking single fold horn. http://www.blockmrecords.org/bach/index.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 From those that I've heard, these are very good recordings and appear to be pristine, i.e., not affected by mastering EQ, which is a big thing for Bach organ recordings. Virtually all record labels that produce stereo organ recordings attenuate the bass below 100 Hz very heavily, so demastering of those tracks is a necessity rather than an option. I remember one Bach organ recording that required 25 dB of overall boost from 250 down to 20 Hz. Thanks for the link. I've downloaded the lossless AIFF library (about 9.8 GB in total). I'll be listening to those 274 compositions for a while. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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