TWO NEW CDs of JS BACH REVIEWED on our website at cityoperavancouver/category/cd-dvd-reviews * He is the forge and fountain of our music. Bach summarized and codified and extended the way we hear Western music in the Common Practise. What today we hear as the settled do-re-mi-ness of things was given that aural form by Bach. It cannot be claimed that he invented this system, but inarguably he perfected and explained and widened it. His Well-Tempered Klavier alone might have achieved this for our music, but so did the rest of his stupendous output. For inescapable reason the young Mozart and Beethoven – and so many more – spent part of their early studies simply copying out by hand his fugues and chorales and inventions, so to grasp and incorporate his means and his purposes. In the best possible way Bach is inescapable, and so we turn to him again and again and again. Recently, the violinist Joshua Bell and the pianist Igor Levit have done so on separate Sony releases, and it is a joy to hear these great – but very different – artists give their voices within his...
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:50:24 +0000
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