J.S. Bach, “The Musical Offering,” BWV 1079, orchestral arrangement, conducted by Igor Markevitch

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[Mr. Mojo]

J.S. Bach, “The Musical Offering,” BWV 1079, orchestral arrangement, conducted by Igor Markevitch

[Mr. Mojo]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ew4DllGeWHc

[algore]

His variations like C P E, and J C were good too.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Sorry, I thought this was an intellectual Saturday night discussion on :
P.D.Q. Bach - 1712 Overture
(with flatulence sounds, bird calls, french horns , and organ recital )

P.D.Q. Bach (11 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbjXViAKkcI

Honestly, I do enjoy classical J.D.Bach as well

[lee martell]

I love many, many of Herr Bach’s compositions.
For someone like myself, untrained, but one who appreciates much of his work, I’ve learned to recognize certain techniques he often used. In many of the sonatas, there seems to be both a ‘shadowing and foreshadowing’ effect of the melody, played back in varying octaves. I don’t know how else to describe it.

One example: the third movement of Sonata in E Minor BWV 1023.
For me, the beginning of that piece provides an exquisitely pure and flowing melody. I listened to Sonata in E Major, BWV 1016 , a violin with piano accompaniment performed by
Issac Stern and Alexander Zakin. It’s outrageously beautiful. Listen to it yourself. I’m not skilled at provided links, sorry.

[rovenstinez]

I bet it was one of Dr. Ben Carson’s favorite when he did long operations.

[TangoLimaSierra]

This is one of my favorite pieces by Bach, but don't care for Igor's rendition. It was like trying pick out the piece from a bunch of thick soup.

Thanks for posting anyway.

[nicollo]

there seems to be both a ‘shadowing and foreshadowing’ effect of the melody, played back in varying octaves

I've heard experts explain it (we have a local Bach Consort that brings in professors to discuss the performance pieces), but your description is far more to the point than anything I may have understood from the experts. Yes, he intertwines, overlays, repeats, partially-repeats, mixes up the melodies... it's so fantastic and so hard to listen to anything else afterwards!

[SamAdams76]

There is a great YouTube channel titles "Netherlands Bach Society."

They are endeavoring to perform every single work of J.S. Bach and put it out on the Internet for free.

The audio and video quality of these performances is outstanding.

Here's an example:

Trio Sonata from Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079 | Netherlands Bach Society