Not a terrible place to start to get a nickle-tour of J.S. Bach, and from Bach's biggest fanatic, Glenn Gould: http://fixyt.com/watch?v=crQ8YEUkUjg
All of Bach
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#22I'm finding this impossible to navigate. The pages are basically frozen in Firefox and Chrome. Anybody else have this problem?
Nope it works for me using latest version of Chrome.
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#23Man, am I going to love this. Can't wait for some of the cello solos.
If anybody from the website is reading this, I have a tiny criticism: clicking anywhere on the page while the video is running closes the video. I don't know if I'm representative, but I often click in empty space to make sure my keyboard focus isn't in the video. I was disappointed when the organist was so abruptly cut off!
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#24To sad, that there is no mp3 or ogg download version available.
check out http://www.classiccat.net/bach_js/
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#25I'm finding this impossible to navigate. The pages are basically frozen in Firefox and Chrome. Anybody else have this problem?
Nope it works for me using latest version of Chrome.
For me latest Chrome is having repositioning issues on the top background image when scrolling up and down, causing it to look jittery until I stop scrolling. Navigation is working fine.
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#26Another remarkable projet regarding Bach is the Open Goldberg Variation ( http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/ ), a project that freely offer a high-quality version (they hired a world-class musician, rent a world-class piano and studio) of the Goldberg Variations. (I have no stakes in that project; I do enjoy listening to the album as work music though)
Should be the harpsichord, not piano :)
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#27As 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
I just checked the preview you mentioned on Youtube and it's absolutely incredible. I'm definitely adding that album to my collection, but I wonder if I could ask for some more help?
I don't have much experience with Bach, or even classical music outside of the really famous pieces. It's a genre that, though I've always been interested in, I've never invested the time to gain a real understanding. Recently, I got into Bach through this album:
http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Goldberg-Variations-Glenn-Gould/
Graduated to this:
http://www.amazon.com/State-Wonder-Complete-Goldberg-Variati...
That link you posted reminds me there is so much that I've never even heard of. Do you have any other recommendations? So far, you're batting 1.000...:)
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#28Another remarkable projet regarding Bach is the Open Goldberg Variation ( http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/ ), a project that freely offer a high-quality version (they hired a world-class musician, rent a world-class piano and studio) of the Goldberg Variations. (I have no stakes in that project; I do enjoy listening to the album as work music though)
Should be the harpsichord, not piano :)
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#29This is excellent, thank you.
I recently found myself wishing there was a website with curated, high-quality performances of Bach, after realizing how big the difference in quality can be.
I ended up working on a Spotify playlist for myself, which I've been editing on and off for months, just trying all the recordings of each particular piece until I found a good one. (The only thing making it possible, with Spotify's terrible organization of classical music, is being able to search for literally "BWV 140" or whatever.) So I'll definitely be visiting this site.