Bach: Great Composers in Words & Music

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Label: Naxos
Release Date: May 13, 2022

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

Johann Sebastian Bach
PERFORMER

Various

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

May 13, 2022
UPC

747313836277
CATALOG NUMBER

8578362
LABEL

Naxos
NUMBER OF DISCS

1
GENRE

Classical

Works ⌄

Introduction
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047: I. [Allegro] (excerpt)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Ensemble: Swiss Baroque Soloists

Conductor: Andrés Gabetta
Hurtling through interstellar space…
Prelude, Fugue and Ciaconna in C Major, BuxWV 137 (excerpt)

Composer: Dieterich Buxtehude

Performer: Julia Brown
After the street brawl and the trip to see Buxtehude…
Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540 (excerpt)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam
Yet Buxtehude and the northern German musical culture…
Organ Concerto in C Major, BWV 594 (arr. of Vivaldi's Concerto in D Major, RV 208) (excerpt)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam
Historians have argued that the lesson Bach learned…
Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043: II. Largo ma non tanto (excerpt)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Ensemble: Capella Istropolitana

Performer: Takako Nishizaki, Alexander Jablokov

Conductor: Oliver von Dohnányi
During Bach's nearly six years at Köthen…
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 869 (excerpt)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Luc Beauséjour
The second Köthen composition that has come to define…
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048: I. — (excerpt)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Ensemble: Swiss Baroque Soloists

Conductor: Andrés Gabetta
However productive Bach may have been at Köthen…
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Part II: Aria: Erbarme dich (excerpt)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Ensemble: Bachorchester Mainz

Performer: Gerhild Romberger, Jan Čižmář, Petra Morath-Pusinelli

Conductor: Ralf Otto
Bach's musical activities, in the years following…
Keyboard Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro (excerpt)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Ensemble: Kölner Kammerorchester

Performer: Robert Hill

Conductor: Helmut Müller-Brühl
As well as its regular weekly concerts…
Musicalisches Opfer, BWV 1079: Sonata sopra il Soggetto Reale: Allegro (excerpt)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Nils Thilo Krämer, Ariane Pfister, Christian Benda, Sebastian Benda
Despite Bach's travelling and various guest appearances…
Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue), BWV 1080: Canon II, alla Ottava (excerpt)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam
As well as exhibiting Bach's penchant for the theoretical aspect…
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Dona nobis pacem: bars 1-14

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Capella Istropolitana

Conductor: Christian Brembeck
We know of nothing that Bach composed after this movement…
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Dona nobis pacem: bars 34-46

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Capella Istropolitana

Conductor: Christian Brembeck

Johann Sebastian Bach today has a reputation as the Godfather of Western European music, as a fountainhead of classical music theory and the creator of some of the greatest works the world has ever produced. Better known as a keyboard virtuoso, Bach was not regarded as a genius in his day, so how did this headstrong and belligerent but ambitious young musician become so extraordinarily productive? What were his influences? How did he end up in jail and what did he get up to in Café Zimmerman? Discover all of this and more in musicologist Davinia Caddy's fascinating biography of a composer who, to Max Reger, represented ‘the beginning and the end of all music’. The narrative, presented by actor Leighton Pugh, is illustrated with musical excerpts including the Brandenburg Concertos, Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, The Art of Fugue, St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor among many others.

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