Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - The Impressionists - Bach's Goldberg Variations

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[mairdie]

I like to take a different perspective on things as I think you learn different things from different approaches. This goes chronologically through a range of artists, so you can see what people were painting around the same time. Starts earlier than Impressionist Period and goes a bit later. Two sections - first On View; second Not On View. Artists listed at the end in their order of appearance in the video. Trevor Pinnock's Bach's Goldberg Variations - 7, 11 and 22.

[mairdie]

1902, Caresse Maternelle, Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844-1926)

[mairdie]

PING to MFA Impressionism

[little jeremiah]

Bach - I will crawl over broken glass to hear Bach!

[bitt]

Mairdie come home!

[generally]

Two of my favorite things! Bach and Impresionism!

I’m one minute in and so many paintings are completely new to me. A few old favorites. A couple I don’t like, but I still like being introduced to them. (Can’t please everybody with every painting!) Most are GREAT!!

Many, many thanks for putting this out.

Now.... back to finish watching.....

:-)

[mairdie]

>>Bach - I will crawl over broken glass to hear Bach!

Me, too!

The Paintings of Franz Marc (1880-1916) - Bach on Sax
https://youtu.be/wn08SQEoKeU

The Paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Bach’s Concerto for 3 Harpsichords in C major; Gustav Leonhardt;Herbert Tachezi.
https://youtu.be/2IhxPuek_Tc

Daily Mail - Segovia - Bach
https://youtu.be/1u_8wtJCM8M

Academy - Carolus-Duran and Zuber-Buhler - Bach
https://youtu.be/KxGvM6vlr9U

Historical Paintings of Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) - Bach on Sax
https://youtu.be/HnVm5GxLehY

The Paintings of Gustav Klimt - Bach on Sax
https://youtu.be/4eqC8kSIrPI

[sparklite2]

"Ah, Bach!"

Meh.  For me, maybe Mozart,
but certainly Wagner.

[Aquamarine]

Beautifully done as usual.

[mairdie]

Mozart I’ve got. Wagner none. Suggestions always welcomed.

Camera - Dragonflies and Wildlife Refuge - Mozart Clarinet Quintet, K.581 - 1993
https://youtu.be/vtjtecjzXhY

Camera - Backyard Birds - Mozart Piano Sonato in D - 1993
https://youtu.be/zPeUh_Z1dEQ

Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais - Mozart
Mozart’s Symphony 33 in A, KV319 - 3, Menuetto. John Elliot Gardner.
https://youtu.be/nYRX0VjlJ9o

[etabeta]

Fine collection. Thank you, mairdie, well done.

[mairdie]

Many thanks. I've been having a fine time visiting the MFA collection. But I need to spend more time looking and less time clicking my camera. Too much glare anyway. What I COVET is a video of the Impressionist paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago. THAT was my childhood. 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Sisters on the Terrace

[sparklite2]

Back in the early seventies, Mozart's Symphony 40 in G minor actually rode the pop charts for a while.  I went to a record store in Mableton, Georgia, to get a copy of it.  I asked the guy at the counter if they had Mozart 40.  The look he gave me was right out of Deliverance as the few other rednecks in the store had a chuckle.  Couldn't get out of there fast enough.

[mairdie]

Back when I was an idiot teenager, I used to play Bach and Mozart on my boombox.

[little jeremiah]

Loved it.

Brought to mind how much I loathe modern architecture, it is dehumanizing.

[little jeremiah]

I used to play Bach on piano when I was teaching myself as an adolescent.

I prefer non-harpsichord Bach, truthfully. To me he stands above all the others. He is like a kaleidescope, the intricate patterns to me are beautiful and precise.

[little jeremiah]

Wow, thanks! Much needed interludes in between news.

[SamAdams76]

I am bumping this thread so that I can come back to it later and listen. Huge Bach fan and it’s been a while since I listened to the Goldberg Variations.

[mairdie]

I found it difficult to “see” what paintings went with what variations.

So far I have

07-Variation-06-Canone-alla-Seconda-a-1-Clav-1-38-Flemish
10-Variation-09-Canone-alla-Terza-a-1-Clav-1-32-Portaits
15-Variation-14-a-2-Clav-1-59-Modern
19-Variation-18-Canone-alla-Sesta-a-1-Clav-1-31-Portraits
22-Variation-21-Canone-alla-Settima-a-1-Clav-2-21-Gory-Religious
25-Variation-24-Canone-all-Ottava-a-1-Clav-1-36-Early-American
26-Variation-25-a-2-Clav-Adagio-4-15-Egyptian
31-Variation-30-Quodlibet-a-1-Clav-2-17-American

Any opinions? The last number is min-sec