Sometimes you just have to get back to the master. Enjoy folks, I know I am. No. 1 (BWV 1046) 00:31 No. 2 (BWV 1047) 19:35 No. 3 (BWV 1048) 31:09 No. 4 (BWV 1049) 41:45 No. 5 (BWV 1050) 57:26 No. 6 (BWV 1051) 1:17:11
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – The Art of Fugue
The earliest extant source of the work is an autograph manuscript[2] of the early 1740s, containing 12 fugues and 2 canons. This autograph is typically referred to by its call number of P200 in the Berlin State Library. Three manuscripts for pieces that would appear in the revised edition were
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Crab Canon on a Möbius Strip
A crab canon (also known by the Latin form of the name, canon cancrizans; as well as retrograde canon, canon per recte et retro or canon per rectus et inversus[2]) is an arrangement of two musical lines that are complementary and backward, similar to a palindrome. Originally it is a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Baroque Interlude – J.S. Bach Nun danket alle Gott BWV 386
Greetings and happy Friday gentle readers. Today we have Bach’s BMV 386 complete with the associated organ prelude. So, if you’d like the entire experience as Bach intended, please listen to the prelude first, then the choral work. Enjoy. 🙂 Nun danket alle Gott Mit Herzen, Mund und Händen,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Cello Suite No.1 – J.S. Bach
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – J S Bach, Sicilienne BWV 1031
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – ‘Passacaglia’ from Battle Star Galactica
We are putting this on the list of piano music that is too damn hard right now, but stuff I will eventually be able to play. Watch his hands after the first repeated section – what is going on is that he is alternating quickly between two sets of notes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043
The Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043, also known as the Double Violin Concerto, is perhaps one of the most famous works by J. S. Bach and considered among the best examples of the work of the late Baroque period. Bach wrote it between
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – J.S. Bach Sonata for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord in G minor, No.3,
Although the circumstances behind Bach’s composition of three Sonatas for harpsichord and viola da gamba (BWV 1027-29) are unknown, recent research indicates that they were most likely written in the early 1740’s, when the greatest virtuosos of the viola da gamba were long a thing of the past. No original source combines
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