Comments on: Buried Under Bach http://classicalconvert.com/2007/07/buried-under-bach/ A beginners guide to classical music, by someone who switched at 23 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:43:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: JonJ http://classicalconvert.com/2007/07/buried-under-bach/comment-page-1/#comment-641 JonJ Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:36:12 +0000 http://classicalconvert.com/2007/07/buried-under-bach/#comment-641 I have a CD of the old Virgil Fox "hippie" concert, which really rocks! To quote him, from his Wikipedia article: "There is current in our land (and several European countries) at this moment a kind of nitpicking worship of historic impotence. They say that Bach must not be interpreted and that he must have no emotion, that his notes speak for themselves. You want to know what that is? Pure unadulterated rot! Bach has the red blood. He has the communion with the people. He has all of this amazing spirit. And imagine that you could put all the music on one side of the agenda with his great interpretation and great feeling and put the greatest man of all right up on top of a dusty shelf underneath some glass case in a museum and say that he must not be interpreted! They're full of you know what and they're so untalented that they have to hide behind this thing because they couldn't get in the house of music any other way!" Needless to say, that is not the only correct view of J.S.! But V.F. does have fun with him. I have a CD of the old Virgil Fox “hippie” concert, which really rocks! To quote him, from his Wikipedia article:

“There is current in our land (and several European countries) at this moment a kind of nitpicking worship of historic impotence. They say that Bach must not be interpreted and that he must have no emotion, that his notes speak for themselves. You want to know what that is? Pure unadulterated rot! Bach has the red blood. He has the communion with the people. He has all of this amazing spirit. And imagine that you could put all the music on one side of the agenda with his great interpretation and great feeling and put the greatest man of all right up on top of a dusty shelf underneath some glass case in a museum and say that he must not be interpreted! They’re full of you know what and they’re so untalented that they have to hide behind this thing because they couldn’t get in the house of music any other way!”

Needless to say, that is not the only correct view of J.S.! But V.F. does have fun with him.

]]> By: Andy http://classicalconvert.com/2007/07/buried-under-bach/comment-page-1/#comment-625 Andy Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:07:43 +0000 http://classicalconvert.com/2007/07/buried-under-bach/#comment-625 I also have the 2 CD set. Its excellent. I second BWV 582, and of course the ubiquitous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. I also have the 2 CD set. Its excellent. I second BWV 582, and of course the ubiquitous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565.

]]> By: Ben http://classicalconvert.com/2007/07/buried-under-bach/comment-page-1/#comment-620 Ben Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:26:21 +0000 http://classicalconvert.com/2007/07/buried-under-bach/#comment-620 Cheers, that's not a bad idea at all.... Cheers, that’s not a bad idea at all….

]]> By: Peter Reavy http://classicalconvert.com/2007/07/buried-under-bach/comment-page-1/#comment-616 Peter Reavy Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:06:37 +0000 http://classicalconvert.com/2007/07/buried-under-bach/#comment-616 There's also a 2 CD version of Peter Hurford's Bach. Maybe you could look up the track listing of that on Amazon, and make yourself a playlist of the highlights to begin with? The Passacaglia And Fugue In C Minor, BWV 582 is great. There’s also a 2 CD version of Peter Hurford’s Bach. Maybe you could look up the track listing of that on Amazon, and make yourself a playlist of the highlights to begin with?

The Passacaglia And Fugue In C Minor, BWV 582 is great.

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