Category: music-3-Baroque

More of Handels Messiah

https://youtu.be/2-QV_I-xseA?si=Z16bF3STWU_wF1eV “Handel’s Messiah in Grace Cathedral” (complete) • Beautiful HD • American Bach Soloists https://youtu.be/XiBHbadRVBU?si=208XLNryUIlVKoUW Academy of Ancient Music AAM & Choir of The Queen’s College, OxfordRowan Pierce, soprano Esther Brazil, mezzo-soprano Ted Black, tenor Ashley Riches, bass-baritone Academy of Ancient Music Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford Owen Rees, director…

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

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 theory has recently (1981) been put forth that J.…… 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