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Who is the best interpreter of Bach?
Glenn Herbert Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould (/ɡuːld/; né Gold; 25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was one of the best known and most celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
What is the most well known of Bach’s keyboard works?
Taken from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 is among Bach’s most famous works and occupies a special place within classical music.
What is the best recording of Brandenburg concertos?
The best recordings of JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos
- The Brandenburg Concertos are breathtaking in their instrumentation, counterpoint and orchestral texture.
- Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
- Trevor Pinnock (director)
- Café Zimmermann (2001-11)
- Christopher Hogwood (director)
- Jordi Savall (director)
What is one of Bach’s best known choral works?
Perhaps the best-known and best-loved of Bach’s cantatas are Wachet auf and Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (the latter containing the time-honoured chorale often performed in English as ‘Jesu, joy of man’s desiring’).
Who created first piano?
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Piano/Inventors
The first true piano was invented almost entirely by one man—Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) of Padua, who had been appointed in 1688 to the Florentine court of Grand Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici to care for its harpsichords and eventually for its entire collection of musical instruments.
Which instrument is most suitable for Bach’s ’48 piano works’?
Written ‘for the use and profit of musical youth’, the first of the two books of the ‘48’ appeared in 1722, the second following some 20 years later – a period when Bach played an active role in the development of various keyboard instruments. There is no easy answer to the question of which type of instrument is most suitable for these works.
Why is Fischer’s Bach a landmark?
It remains a landmark. Poetic and thoughtful, Fischer is one of the most intuitive of Bach interpreters: tempos are beautifully judged – never too lugubrious nor too frenzied – and he eschews the anachronistic tendency for those grandiose, Romantic gestures that mar many early performances.
What do you think of Bach’s keyboard concertos?
Albert Schweitzer denounced the seven keyboard concertos as arrangements ‘often made with quite incredible haste and carelessness’. They are nothing of the sort. Bach took a lot of care over their reworking; and Hewitt and Co do likewise over their re-creation. A superb pair of discs.
How many JS Bach recordings are there?
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