This is very cool. A similar project, called J. S. Bach-Stiftung, has been recording all of Bach's choral works. Check them out on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bachstiftung
All of Bach
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#62I love bach and the music. It takes quite a bit of a clicking effort to get to the actual performances. Then when it plays clicking anywhere closes the performance.
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#63The performance in video of Toccata and Fugue is just wow! Incredible, to say the least. It's a total must. I've always loved it because it reminds the old gamer in me of Sabrewulf's theme in Killer Instinct for arcades in the 90's. Also, I can't wait for The Well-Tempered Clavier's Prelude I (C Major). It's almost corny these days but it's still such a marvellous piece, it instantly talks to your body and you know t…
Really a fantastic performance. The recording quality of both video and audio are excellent too.
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#64As 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 int…
Since you discovered Gould and the Goldbergs, I have two comments.
First, I personally find the original 1955 version almost unbearable. I love his playing, but the mono sound is exhausting. Then I discovered the Zenph Re-Performance recording. In one word: stunning. Especially with the binaural tracks, it sounds like Gould is playing right there in your living room. Give it a listen. http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Goldberg-Variations-Performance-R... — Neat technology behind this, too.
Second, try Murray Perahia's version. Gould and Perahia are my favorites for piano Bach.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love everything that you said and have no quarrel with any of it. I just thought it worth pointing out that when you say "if possible go see some play live" after extolling Glenn Gould, that he would probably advise not going to live performances. Gould thought that live performances were distracting rituals and that music could be much more easily focused on and appreciated through recordings. Personally, although…
I am not a musician the calibre, or even near it, to Gould but I completely, utterly disagree about live music. Maybe he preferred the recording studio, but why would you want to take away live music from the tradition! It's like watching a chef make food on TV instead of being where you should be when it comes to food: in the kitchen and dining room, smelling all the smells. Edit for those not agreeing: try sitting…
As far as "classical" music goes, I can definitely live without the synchronized audience coughing between movements. Or the fact that you can only applaud at the end of the piece, no matter that a prior movement might have ended on an energetic forte and the last movement on an introspective pianissimo. Or the upraised eyebrows you inevitably draw if you're under 70.
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#66Worthless. Useless. A disaster. Flatly, on Windows XP SP3 with one of the latest versions of Firefox and Flash, the site essentially doesn't work. So, I clicked, and clicked, and clicked, and waited, and waited, and waited, and clicked, looked at the system monitor and saw no activity on either network data or CPU, waited, clicked, waited, clicked, had much of the screen content go off the screen, kept lowering the screen magnification, clicked, clicked, clicked, and finally did hear the Toccata but couldn't hear or get any other content, not voice or text, etc.
Worst Web page programming on the planet.
Sorry 'bout that.
For Bach, which I nearly worship, devoted a significant fraction of my life working to play Bach on violin, back to my CD collection, YouTube, etc.
Looks like some really good music totally train wrecked by some absurd Web site programming. I'd have no idea how to make such a mess out of some Web pages -- maybe have to use JavaScript to do that. So, ditch the JavaScript.
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#67Man, 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!
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library?filt... Might keep you going for a bit. Colin Carr playing four of the six suites. CC licenced, lowish bit-rate mp3s I can't play the All of Bach at all, suspect flash related (gnash/iceweasel on Debian Sid) EDIT: yup, flashplayer-nonfree works. This being HN, do we think a flashplayer based solution is sensible for a long term project such as this? Is mass tran…
Poking around it looks like they are hosted on Vimeo and that the default is HTML5/H.264 with fallback to flash. Assuming that iceweasel has H.264 support (IIRC there is a way to get it through ffmpeg) you can probably it could just be that they are doing UA sniffing and don't recognize your browser.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love everything that you said and have no quarrel with any of it. I just thought it worth pointing out that when you say "if possible go see some play live" after extolling Glenn Gould, that he would probably advise not going to live performances. Gould thought that live performances were distracting rituals and that music could be much more easily focused on and appreciated through recordings. Personally, although…
I am not a musician the calibre, or even near it, to Gould but I completely, utterly disagree about live music. Maybe he preferred the recording studio, but why would you want to take away live music from the tradition! It's like watching a chef make food on TV instead of being where you should be when it comes to food: in the kitchen and dining room, smelling all the smells. Edit for those not agreeing: try sitting…
I have to disagree. When listening to a recording, you hear all the music. A more fitting analogy would be tasting and eating the food without seeing the chef prepare it.
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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.
I wouldn't feel any moral qualms about downloading the torrent (still huge) if I had the box of discs on my desk. The swapping of discs isn't as bad as the tagging. Is the set tagged on Musicbrainz?
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 int…
Since you discovered Gould and the Goldbergs, I have two comments. First, I personally find the original 1955 version almost unbearable. I love his playing, but the mono sound is exhausting. Then I discovered the Zenph Re-Performance recording. In one word: stunning. Especially with the binaural tracks, it sounds like Gould is playing right there in your living room. Give it a listen. http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Goldb…
Huh, that Zenph Re-Performance recording sounds interesting. I hadn't heard of that before, I will definitely check it out. Thanks.