As a complete Bach nerd may I recommend this as the ultimate recording of one of his greatest works: http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Matthaus-Passion-Bostridge-Colleg... A search for Herreweghe+Matthaus on Youtube brings up a 'preview' for those interested to listen immediately.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Ai171EQeU
Fun fact: Paul Simon lifted the basic harmony and melody for his song "American Tune" from that piece, which itself lifted them from an earlier piece. Remixing is not a new phenomenon!
If you really like Bach and are interested in his complete works, you should definitely check out the Hännsler Bach Edition. ( http://www.haenssler-classic.de/en/series-and-editions/johan... ) Its 199 Euros which is really not a lot if you consider its 172 CDs. And its not just a cheaply thrown together compilation but it was curated (and in large parts conducted) by Helmuth Rilling who is one of the premier Bach exp…
Too bad there is not an online version of this. Hardly any device in my home is able to play CDs.
Understood. I just bought a Chopin collection that was only available on CD.. not remotely as large as a complete Bach collection obviously, but a few CDs anyway. It's been sitting around for a couple weeks because about the only thing I can do with it is go to my desktop PC and rip it, and getting around to that takes awhile. I've been looking forward to listening to it, but.. fragile plastic discs, man, what's up with those?
If you really like Bach and are interested in his complete works, you should definitely check out the Hännsler Bach Edition. ( http://www.haenssler-classic.de/en/series-and-editions/johan... ) Its 199 Euros which is really not a lot if you consider its 172 CDs. And its not just a cheaply thrown together compilation but it was curated (and in large parts conducted) by Helmuth Rilling who is one of the premier Bach exp…
Too bad there is not an online version of this. Hardly any device in my home is able to play CDs.
Even if I had a bunch of CD players around, the idea of swapping between 172 discs doesn't sound great.
As a complete Bach nerd may I recommend this as the ultimate recording of one of his greatest works: http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Matthaus-Passion-Bostridge-Colleg... A search for Herreweghe+Matthaus on Youtube brings up a 'preview' for those interested to listen immediately.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Ai171EQeU
Fun fact: Paul Simon lifted the basic harmony and melody for his song "American Tune" from that piece, which itself lifted them from an earlier piece. Remixing is not a new phenomenon! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Tune
Until the age of recorded commercial music it was considered completely normal to lift tunes, harmonies, anything recognisable, from other composers. In classical music it's generally considered a complement, more rarely a parody. Copyright has been around for much longer with printed music: as early as the 1500's we see Henry 8th issuing protections. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_music_publishing#Cop...
Too bad there is not an online version of this. Hardly any device in my home is able to play CDs.
Even if I had a bunch of CD players around, the idea of swapping between 172 discs doesn't sound great.
There are CD ripping services around. In the UK they charge around ~60p/CD (gets cheaper at ~500 CDs). Some will rip lossless, which is what I was after for the 800 or so CDs I stupidly ripped at 192Kbps over the years.