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Siebert has programmed the Bach Festival to progress from what she calls Bach's "earliest and easiest" works to his final, complex masterpieces.
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They stand for World Trade Center, but they also refer to Bach's
NPR Topics: News 2011
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They stand for World Trade Center, but they also refer to Bach's
NPR Topics: News 2011
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This is also the thinking behind such Zenph discs as the reperformance of Glenn Gould's famous 1955 recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations."
A High Price to Pay for the Pursuit of a More Perfect Peterson Eric Felten 2011
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As urgent in its martial vigor as Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries," as spellbinding as Bach's "Toccata in Fugue in D Minor," as whimsical in parts as Holst's "Jupiter," few other musical works can match the "Sinfonietta's" emotional breadth, subtlety and raw bombast.
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You could tell that he'd thought through the whole history of Bach's music and its interpretation, and how he himself wanted to play it.
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On the face of it, it might seem foolhardy to tinker with Bach's St Matthew Passion by attempting to turn it into theatre but Jonathan Miller and conductor Paul Goodwin's enterprise proves respectful, restrained and surprisingly natural.
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Old technology and older music interlude: A "floppy disk organ" plays Bach's "Toccata and Fugue".
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Bach's Christmas Oratorio is a bit less familiar, a lot more earnest that'll be the Lutheran influence and much more demanding than his exact contemporary Handel's Messiah, composed less than 10 years later.
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Bach's Goldberg Variations is a good example of something especially difficult to memorise, because it's contrapuntal and highly complex, but also very virtuosic, and it lasts an hour.
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