Category: music-3-Baroque

J.S. Bach: Organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

https://youtu.be/mFSaTJ22U-k Blob Opera (B-Roll) by Tom O’Connor But, seriously… https://youtu.be/CqMA-N1ggds Alexander Sevastian playes in Wheaton College in 2012… and more of him… https://youtu.be/ipzR9bhei_o Bach’s most famous organ piece, with a bar-graph score……. Q: Who wrote Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor? Q: Isn’t that like asking who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb? A: Heh-heh. A…… Continue reading J.S. Bach: Organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Henry Purcell – England, My England

https://youtu.be/UqRXerIE0mA Tony Palmer FilmsHenry Purcell is a mystery. We know where he’s buried (next to Vaughan Williams in Westminster Abbey), but that’s about it. We don’t even know who paid for his memorial stone in the Abbey. No-one knows for sure where he was born or even precisely when he was born. We don’t know…… Continue reading Henry Purcell – England, My England

Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata no. 3 in D minor BWV 527

https://youtu.be/J6jl0_QVX5c Havinga | Netherlands Bach SocietyThe opening of this sonata in D minor, performed by Matthias Havinga for All of Bach, has an uncertain and emphatically andante sound. To the ears of seventeenth and eighteenth-century musicologists the key of D minor represented melancholy, devotion, solemnity and seriousness. Following this tentative start, Bach launches into experimentation,…… Continue reading Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata no. 3 in D minor BWV 527

J. S. Bach: Air on the G String (Suite No. 3, BWV 1068)

https://youtu.be/CvglW3KNSsQ HAUSER https://youtu.be/pzlw6fUux4o / 2013 / … Air on the G String (Suite No. 3, BWV 1068) J. S. Bach, original instruments. #Bach #AirontheGStringThe second movement, Aria, from Bach’s orchestral suite in D Major, BWV 1068, performed on original instruments from the time of Bach by the Early Music ensemble Voices of Music. Please subscribe…… Continue reading J. S. Bach: Air on the G String (Suite No. 3, BWV 1068)