Posted on 07/15/2019 11:08:42 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
It seems it should be the opposite, that Mozart should be grafted onto Bach. But in this instance, I can’t hear any player of the Gigue from Bach’s French Suite No. 5, playing it with any vision of how it should sound, so fast that they just seem to want to get through it so their teachers, who assigned them the piece, will get off their backs. (It seems like they all hate the piece, as if they’re escaping from hell while being dished out a dose of castor oil.)
My vision is for the French Suite No. 5 Gigue to sound like it’s being played by a mounted post-horn player on a fox hunt. The big, monstrous fox, as it appears to the chickens, is now getting his comeuppance during the fox hunt. The jolly fox hunters need some music, this is it.
In the sample, the theme from the Rondo of Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4, is played a couple of times, then the Gigue from the Bach French Suite No. 5 is arbitrarily grafted onto the Mozart, both as to the key (transposed from G to Eb) and the tempo, slowed down from 140 to 121.
Yes, I agree. The piano by itself should lead to a fuller sound. As it is it comes in full and abruptly the piano takes over. If it comes in full, it should come to a rest or pause (a cadence) before the piano starts.
It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. - Johann Sebastian Bach
To me, the graft suggests a part of the Goldberg Variations.
That’s some toe-tapping music.
Bfl
Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEWoTDoLNI
The Bach F Major English Suite is ripe for orchestration IMHO. The Prelude has an especially "Brandenburg" feel to it.
Idiot OConnell writes:
“I can’t hear any player of the Gigue from Bach’s French Suite No. 5, playing it with any vision of how it should sound, so fast that they just seem to want to get through it so their teachers, who assigned them the piece, will get off their backs.”
OConnell is saying that he only listens to students play.
Discern wisely. The fate of civilization depends upon it.
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