enter the fray: our reader discussion forum
The Fray Browse by Tags
Sign in
  
Advanced
All Tags » Bach

  • don't forget glenn gould's recording!

    how can one mention Bach's the Art of Fugue and not mention the recording of same by Glenn Gould? Here's one of the great pianists of the 20th century also recording much of AOF on piano. This article lends the impression that great pianists didn't record this until now, and that's simply not true.
    Posted to Music Box by porkrind on May 20, 2008

  • JS Bach, Art of Fugue

    I'm a visual artist and as far as I'm concerned, JS Bach is one of the greatest persons to have ever walked the face of the earth. Bach represents one of the highest acheivements of mankind. Bach represents what it means to be civilized and to think logically and with reason. Strange that so many people here miss the point and essence of the ...
    Posted to Music Box by garyhope on May 19, 2008

  • Who Needs A Music Industry Anyway?

    Musicians from Bach to Robert Johnson stayed broke, and gave us the greatest music we have. Now musicians make millions and music sucks. Why not go back to the old way?
    Posted to Culturebox by Joel Z on April 26, 2008

  • Ultimate Goldberg?

    Personally, I found the 1955 Gould performance jarring on my nerves. It's very sharp-edged; hard to imagine how it fits with Bach's purpose in writing the Variations in the first place. Not that it's terrible. It's a virtuoso performance, to be sure; athletic and emphatic. Dinnerstein's new Variations, to judge from the excerpts (I haven't ...
    Posted to Music Box by Urgelt on August 28, 2007

  • Roslyn Turek's Goldberg Variation

    You didn't mention Roslyn Turek's version of the Goldberg Variations. In many ways, it is also a polar opposite of Gould's: Gould does the whole set in less than 40 minutes, while Turek takes about an hour and 40 minutes. Like Dinnerstein, she takes much more relaxed tempi than Gould. Fromt the short excerpts, though, Dinnerstein seems to play ...
    Posted to Music Box by PortlandBass on August 28, 2007