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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
A music morning prepping for chat. So I’d better start getting serious about chat…
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
And now for the very WORST of classical composers, P.D.Q. Bach, and his Oratorio, the Seasonings…
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PDQ never fails to bring an audience to tears . . . of laughter.. He performed here some yrs ago. Wish I’d kept the programme. Thanks 🙂
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LMAO .. Classical music is like vegemite … You gotta spread it thin .. Not being a classical FANATIC .. a little goes a long long long way with me ..
I bloody LOVED this and it bought me to tears .. of laughter ..
I’ve had an ABSOLUTE sh!t week and this made my morning .. Thx for posting Joseph ..
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
Oh I can’t help it… the first two movements of Widor’s 5th Organ symphony… another of my faves by the 19the century virtuoso and “grande maitre” Charles-Marie Widor. A real workout, as you can see (I included the second movement so you can watch one of Widor’s tricks called “thumbing”, i.e., playing on two manuals at the same time with one…[Read more]
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
OK… last bit of CPE for the day… Wq 32 III (played on a tangeant piano, unfortunately, MUCH better with a large powerful harpsichord), but all in all, another wonderful movement from a wonderful concerto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkZZISDVujE
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Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 8 years, 2 months ago
There is certainly a modern quality to his music… almost “neo-classical” before the classical age. Maybe that’s why his music is only now coming back.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 8 years, 2 months ago
Maybe he did, I don’t know. He certainly WAS a rocker though. Imagine having to follow up a father like that? How to do it? Completely reinvent EVERYTHING.
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There is certainly a modern quality to his music… almost “neo-classical” before the classical age. Maybe that’s why his music is only now coming back.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 8 years, 2 months ago
NICE choice. His keyboard sonatas are wonderful, and were a major influence on Haydn and the tub-thumper.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
And another of my faves by der grosse Karl: Wq 12… the first movement of this concerto has one of the all-time stormiest development sections in all of music, in my opinion, and not to be outdone is the third movement, which many will recognize as the “theme” music to the Dialogues. Definitely the heavy metal rocker of the Bach family; the first…[Read more]
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I’m convinced that CPE influenced a lot of the 1970s prog-rockers, ie, early Genesis et al…
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Maybe he did, I don’t know. He certainly WAS a rocker though. Imagine having to follow up a father like that? How to do it? Completely reinvent EVERYTHING.
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There is certainly a modern quality to his music… almost “neo-classical” before the classical age. Maybe that’s why his music is only now coming back.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
Another of my faves from the great “Karl”… Wq 6… Spanyi also really shows off the Hass double in this one, not afraid to pull that big 16′ choir in on the action!:
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something delicate….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPch1IXqiWU Wq65
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NICE choice. His keyboard sonatas are wonderful, and were a major influence on Haydn and the tub-thumper.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
“… these I wrote for myself and in full freedom…” C.P.E. Bach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4oLdwKZthw
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Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 8 years, 2 months ago
Yes… harpsichords fascinate me for this precise reason… one has to get passion out of the instrument by entirely different means other than just pounding and hammering harder or softer. The same on an organ.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
Now this is fun… the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor… played on the organ’s “cousin”:
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it seems to me that the instrument itself (in this playing) can emphasize the space between equanimity and passion
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Yes… harpsichords fascinate me for this precise reason… one has to get passion out of the instrument by entirely different means other than just pounding and hammering harder or softer. The same on an organ.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 8 years, 2 months ago
Interesting idea… I think it IS true that, if played properly, the organ gives the player and audience a kind of religious ecstasy.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 8 years, 2 months ago
Most definitely. My complaint about most organists in America and France is they fell prey to Dupre… endless legato and “qauntization”. Playing the notes, not the music.
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preparation and execution…sounds like epiclesis (?)
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Interesting idea… I think it IS true that, if played properly, the organ gives the player and audience a kind of religious ecstasy.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532… one of many “organist’s nightmares”.
I am sure I’ve posted this before, but I do so again. Listen to how Barthen (Christian Barthen, one of Europe’s best young organists), allows the instrument to BREATHE, and plays Up tempo (relatively fast, as befitting the energy built into the piece). This is…[Read more]
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very cool, it’s as if Bach requires the organist to disclose something rather than just interpret something
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Most definitely. My complaint about most organists in America and France is they fell prey to Dupre… endless legato and “qauntization”. Playing the notes, not the music.
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preparation and execution…sounds like epiclesis (?)
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Interesting idea… I think it IS true that, if played properly, the organ gives the player and audience a kind of religious ecstasy.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years, 2 months ago
For those who posted the BWV 29 sinfonia played by Diane Bish, I’m not a big fan of her, though certainly of the sinfonia. Unfortunately, there was a great performance of the cantata including the opening sinfonia with orchestra and organ obbligato on you tube that was taken down. But if you like that sort of thing, check out Geist und Seele wird…[Read more]
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Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 8 years, 2 months ago
The intro is ok… I’ve never liked her playing nor that instrument. For one thing, I think it’s too slow. UNfortunately, the best performance of this with the original orchestration and organ obbligato was on you tube, and taken down. If you like these little sinfonias for organ obbligato and orchestra from the cantatas, then check out Geist und…[Read more]
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Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 8 years, 2 months ago
I’m EXTREMELY skeptical of it.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 8 years, 2 months ago
ROF…
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Joseph P. Farrell posted a new activity comment 8 years, 2 months ago
I was waiting for another Zelenka Moment!
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Enjoyed the music . . .
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