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Mar 5, 2021 · Bach wrote in almost every genre you could think of – from big orchestral and choral settings, to chamber pieces and instrumental sonatas for a myriad of musical instruments, to enduringly powerful unaccompanied works, and volumes of keyboard music. To narrow it down to ten works is, of course, ambitious.
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- Brandenburg Concertos
- Four Orchestral Suites
- St Matthew Passion
- Cantata No.21
- Organ Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV542
- The Well-Tempered Clavier – The 48
- Goldberg Variations
- Six Cello Suites
- Violin Sonatas and Partitas
- Concerto in D Minor For Two Violins
Many Baroque composers wrote dozens, or even hundreds, of concertos but Bach managed to sum up the entire genre with only six, each featuring a different line-up of soloists with a wide range of moods and even structures (shocking in an era when concertos were supposed to have three movements: fast-slow-fast). So we leap from the dizzying heights o...
Alongside the concerto, the other genre in vogue in Bach’s time was the orchestral suite (or “overture” as he called it). Whereas the concerto came out of an Italian tradition the suite was, in origin, a sequence of French dances. While all four of Bach’s have a kind of courtly nobility beyond that they range enormously: from the gracious sequence ...
Passions are large-scale choral works telling of the suffering and death of Christ, and none come finer than those of Bach, of which two have come down to us: the St John and the St Matthew. The latter is one of the great icons of music, but after Bach’s death, it went unperformed for nearly 80 years until a young Felix Mendelssohnreintroduced it t...
Bach’s cantatas (nearly 200 sacred and a good handful of secular ones survive) are all the more remarkable when you think that this was real bread-and-butter stuff, produced for the church services every week. This meant they had to be performable without much rehearsal; so either the congregation endured some pretty ropey playing, or Bach’s musici...
Bach was particularly admired for his keyboard skills, not least his knack for improvisation; much of his organ music probably started out life as just that – a doodle turned into something mighty. Leaving aside the most famous organ work of all, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor (which some doubt is by Bach at all), one of the most brilliant works ...
Bach was not merely one of the greatest composing geniuses in history; he was also a devoted family man, and frequently wrote keyboard music as a teaching aid for his many children. The Well-Tempered Clavier is a set of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys (48 works in all). If that sounds a little dry, then just remember this is Bach...
Ultimately with Bach, you can either spend ages trying to analyse why his music is so endlessly compelling or, as with the Goldberg Variations(purportedly written to soothe an insomniac nobleman to sleep) you can just enjoy it. Designed for harpsichord, but equally enthusiastically claimed by pianists, it consists of a lyrical theme with 30 variati...
While it’s easy enough for the keyboard to stand alone, string instruments have a harder time of it. Bach’s solo Cello Suitesare immensely difficult, not least because he was determined to make the instrument sound self-sufficient. They vanished for years from the repertoire, only to be rediscovered and subsequently celebrated when the great Catala...
Violinists have no need to envy the Cello Suites, since Bach left them an equivalent solo work: the Sonatas and Partitas. The most famous of them is the ‘D Minor Partita’, with its fiendish and epic final ‘Chaconne’, in which a simple theme is varied no fewer than 64 times, to extraordinary emotional effect. Equally effective is the ‘E Major Partit...
Bach didn’t leave many solo concertos, but this one is a gem, easily up there with the best Bach works of all time. Featuring two violinists with a simple string-and-harpsichord accompaniment, it is particularly beloved for its rhapsodic slow movement (shamelessly plundered by myriad film directors for moments of high emotion), in which the two sol...
- Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. A staple of organ music, Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565,” grabs attention with its thundering beginning and complex, intertwined melodies.
- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, BWV 147. Watch this video on YouTube. Video courtesy of youtube. One of Bach’s cantatas, “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, BWV 147,” is a gem that embodies peace and inspiration.
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048. The apex of Baroque orchestral invention, Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048,” spins a web of jubilance and cohesion.
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988. Watch this video on YouTube. Video courtesy of YouTube. A world of musical creativity is unveiled in Bach’s “Goldberg Variations, BWV 988,” a masterpiece of keyboard skill.
Jun 6, 2023 · Top 10 Most Famous Pieces by Bach. ♫ 1st Place Sheet Music (Air | Different Version): https://tinyurl.com/2zaz6k2a * ♫ 2nd Place Sheet Music (Cello Suite No.1, I. Prélude | Different...
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- Orchestral Suites. Freiburg Baroque Orchestra / Petra Mullejans, Gottfried von der Goltz. (Harmonia Mundi) Over the years, we’ve come to expect outstanding performances from the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and this issue certainly does not disappoint.
- Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1-6. European Brandenburg Ensemble / Trevor Pinnock. (Avie) When Trevor Pinnock first recorded the Brandenburgs with the English Concert for DG Archiv in 1982, period performances of these works were relatively rare; today they abound, and it has become harder to make a mark in music that does not readily admit a wide range of interpretations.
- Violin Concertos. Isabelle Faust, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. (Harmonia Mundi) That Isabelle Faust and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin have let this Bach violin concertos album run to nearly 2 hours of music suggests a relish of their task that is mirrored triumphantly in the resultant music-making.
- Goldberg Variations. Glenn Gould pf. (Sony, 1981 rec) This truly astonishing performance was recorded in 1981, 26 years after Gould's legendary 1955 disc.
Dec 19, 2023 · When you think of classical music, Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the first names to come to mind. A legendary German composer and one of the quintessential figures of the Baroque period, his influence on music was as massive as his catalog of work.
Sep 13, 2024 · Johann Sebastian Bach composed over 1,000 pieces of music. Some of his most famous work included the Brandenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier, and the Mass in B Minor.
