A Year of Bach

A Year of Bach

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An interlude: Living the Steely Dan Dream
My morning with Don, Walt, and Katie Couric in 2000
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37 takeaways from 200 hours with Bach
And about YoB's Year Two
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December 10: The Chaconne, and the Meaning of Life (Itzhak Perlman, violin)
My Year of Bach ends in calamity, and in hope.
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December 2: Miscellaneous and reconstructed works (Various Artists)
A hodgepodge as we approach the end
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November 24: Keyboard Works, including the Italian Concerto (Sviatoslav Richter, and others)
A few things you can play.
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November 18: Keyboard Works, including the Partitas (Various Artists)
On Bach's great love for the keys
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November 11: Cantatas (Bachakademie; Helmuth Rilling, conductor)
Feeling elegiac during my final set of choral works
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November 4: The Violin Sonatas and Partitas (Jascha Heifetz, violin)
When it's wrong, and when it's right
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October 28: Vocal Works (Various Artists)
Bach goes to synagogue, or the synagogue came to Bach, or God did it.
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A Year of Bach
A Year of Bach
Bach is the greatest, and I haven't yet heard his complete catalog, so in 2024, I'm listening to every Bach composition and writing about it here.
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