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Bob "Elmer" wrote: >And although I enjoy Bach's music enormously,
his austerity,
>his responsibility, his strict ideas of
religion and behavior tend to
>put me off. It's easy to find Mozart music that
is pure "fun" -- it's
>very hard to find any Bach that anyone could
say, "Isn't this a
>lot of fun!"
Hmm. Doch!
Cello suite #3 in C, the way Casals played
it.
First movement of D-major keyboard concerto, the
way Gould played it.
Last movement of D-major gamba sonata, the way Rose
and Gould played it.
"Grosser Herr, o starker Koenig" and "Floesst, mein
Heiland, floesst dein Namen" (with the echoes) from the Christmas
Oratorio.
Physically playing Contrapunctus 11 from the Art of
Fugue, finally really nailing it after weeks and months of hard
work.
Last few movements of the keyboard Partita in A
minor.
Playing the end of the keyboard Toccata in D major
where it suddenly starts going twice as fast.
The "Rejouissance" at the end of the orchestral
Suite #4 in D.
The Coffee Cantata.
The "postal carrier" fugue in the Capriccio in
B-flat.
The Fantasia in C minor, Bach's Scarlattian
whizbang.
Or some of the organ works: to quote Charles E
Ives, "Playing organ pedals is almost as much fun as playing
baseball."
Bradley Lehman, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl
Dayton VA |