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  1. Keyboard Instruments
    This video explores some possibilities for playing your standard digital piano through a modular synth to create a custom timbre – and to add some effects without taking your fingers off the keyboard. Not for classical purists! Allemande, from J. S. Bach's French Suite No. 4 in E-flat, BWV 815...
  2. Keyboard Instruments
    Hello - Why do editors show 2nd finger on the 2nd note in the first bar of 3rd movement of J.S. Bach’s Italian Concerto? Is it so that the 3rd finger is on the B flat downbeat in bar 2 rather than the weaker 4th? These things trouble me 😬
  3. Classical Music Discussion
    Context: I am, one might say, a classicist? A classical era fanatic? I have spent the previous decade of my life delving deep into the vast and wonderful repertoire of the classical era. So many wonderful composers. From Cimarosa and Cherubini to Stamitz and Salieri. JC Bach: However no one’s...
  4. Vocal Music
    Hello, could somebody tell me the difference between this edition of Bach Sacred cantatas : https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/H&L-Rec5.htm and this one: Harnoncourt & Leonhardt - Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works - Discography Part 2 Thank you very much.
  5. Classical Music Discussion
    Is true that Bach walked 250 miles on feet to see Buxtehude playing? What is the actual evidence of that (letter, diary etc)?
  6. Classical Music Discussion
    I have a harpsichord and I'm interested in studying Handel's work, does anyone have suggestions of some good unknown pieces? PS: Preferably more aggressive and dark (minor key)
  7. Classical Music Discussion
    I would like recommendations for good Bach biographical books, and please if you can specify if the book focuses on music (analysis and background) or that focus mainly on Bach's personal life. PS: If you can, please recommend books written by RESPECTED musicologists who use authentic...
  8. Identifying Classical Music
    Until recently, there existed a Youtube video of a live video recording of J.S. Bach's BWV 1060R concerto for oboe (or flute?), strings and harpsichord. It was an absolutely superb performance. To my dismay, the video has now been removed from Youtube. I've now been spending a couple of hours...
  9. Classical Music Discussion
    Why we know so many original autograph scores (composer's handwritting) of Mozart, and not so many by other composers? You can see on RISM or IMSLP, that the big majority of avaiable scores of Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn among others are copies by other person, but when we talk about Mozart...
  10. Identifying Classical Music
    I listened to four hours of Bach preludes and fugues and did not hear the one I played in a piano recital decades ago. I don't remember the key but I've tried to attach sheet music for the theme transcribed to A minor. Let me know if you can't see it. Any help appreciated!
  11. Religious Music
    Hello, first time here, just wanted to say that im a 13 old bass singer in a national Tallinns boys choir, and two weeks ago we sang the 1 hour 55 minute “Johannes passion” by Johannes bach. The biggest crowd ever in a classical music concert in estonia, about 40 thousand crowd, and teh piece is...
  12. Classical Music Discussion
    Hi guys, does anyone have sheet music for Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor BVW 582 transcribed by Krystian Zimerman. Here you can find the recording: It is the best transcription in my opinion but unfortunately I am not able to find any sheet music. Regards
  13. Classical Music Discussion
    I seem to have come across a case of plagiarism by Bach. It's known that he liked Vivaldi but all he was known to do, was to knowingly transcribe his concertos. Now, I heard this, and I'm sure that if Bach were Andrew Lloyd Webber, Vivaldi might have tried to sue him.
  14. Classical Music Discussion
    Which recording of the chaconne from Bach's partita no. 2 to listen to?
  15. Classical Music Discussion
    For a long time I've cast about for a way to describe Glen Gould's playing of Bach, particularly when he ratchets down the tempo (note second Goldberg Variations). The phrase is "respect for the music." The music just shines. You're not listening to Glen Gould, you're listening to Bach. Do...
  16. Classical Music Discussion
    Hi! This is not a Bach vs Mozart vs Beethoven thread. I do not care who's the greatest composer in your mind or if you find one or two or all three overrated. I am a classic music lover who has some basic knowledge of music theory (I have a license in solfeggio taken when I was in highschool). I...
  17. Classical Music Discussion
    With the first five measures limitation, I'd expect answers having to do with orchestration, chord structure, maybe short motifs, but please, no replies having to do with the overall structure, or length of phrases, etc. Yesterday and today I listened to all of Bach's sinfonias in chronological...
  18. Classical Music Discussion
    There are plenty that I know of, which I shall let others mention as a way of discussion and conglomerating several such Fugues into one post, but I want to share what I think beats them all, from Jan Dismas Zelenka's Missa Omnium Sanctorum, ZWV 21 - a chromatic leaping up and down subject that...
  19. Religious Music
    Some of the most contrapuntal, beautiful and harmonically daring music of the Baroque right here - and it is not even Bach! Such a underrated composer I am happy to share; here is my analysis of the 2 musical settings (which I as a transcriber am currently making Urtext edition scores from the...
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