About Bach by Anne-Marie McDermott Album
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I first heard an excerpt from this CD on David Dubal's radio program "Reflections from the Keyboard". The excerpt played was the Capriccio from the Partita No. 2. He compared this recording to those of several other pianists. It was very clear that this was, in all ways, the superior recording: every line is brought out and seperately discernable, and the dance aspect of the piece is conveyed with a bouncing, catchy rhythm. This is beautiful Bach piano-playing.
I first read Komponist's rather scathing review, then listened to the music, and found it hard to imagine we had been listening to the same recording. No joy? No poetry? Stodgy? Struggling? I can't imagine what axe Komponist has to grind, but to my ears it bears little relation to the merits of this recording. Ms. McDermott's Bach is soulful, poetic, joyful, and technically excellent, and it would be a shame if potential listeners were put off by one inexplicably harsh review.
I am only twelve and in love with classical music I pray that one day I might have half as much talent and creativity they posses
I like the Goode recording but not the Argerich (Goode's Bach is much better then hers) but this gives a different yet valid take. It takes some time getting used to but over time you might end up liking it over other time honored recordings. My only complaint is that she seems too rushed in spots but it is by no means joyless, stogy or what have you. Her tone shimmers and playing is secure. It may not be Glenn Gould but it's a fetching enough reading to go up agains his famous records or even Hewitts much lauded albums. No regrets here.
Great album.
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Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; solo instrumental works such as the cello suites and sonatas and partitas for solo violin; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier; organ works such as the Schubler Chorales and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and choral works such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician, Johann Ambrosius, in Eisenach. After being orphaned at the age of 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother, Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical education in Lüneburg. In 1703 he returned to Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen and, for longer periods, at courts in Weimar, where he expanded his organ repertory, and Köthen, where he was mostly engaged with chamber music. In 1723, he was hired as Thomaskantor (cantor at St Thomas's) in Leipzig. There, he composed music for the principal Lutheran churches of the city and its university's student ensemble Collegium Musicum. In 1726, he began publishing his keyboard and organ music. In Leipzig, as had happened during some of his earlier positions, he had difficult relations with his employer. This situation was somewhat remedied when his sovereign, Augustus III of Poland, granted him the title of court composer in 1736. In the last decades of his life, Bach reworked and extended many of his earlier compositions. He died of complications after a botched eye surgery in 1750 at the age of 65. Bach enriched established German styles through his mastery of counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and his adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France. His compositions include hundreds of cantatas, both sacred and secular. He composed Latin church music, Passions, oratorios, and motets. He often adopted Lutheran hymns, not only in his larger vocal works but, for instance, also in his four-part chorales and his sacred songs. Bach wrote extensively for organ and for other keyboard instruments. He composed concertos, for instance for violin and for harpsichord, and suites, as chamber music as well as for orchestra. Many of his works employ contrapuntal techniques like canon and fugue. In the 18th century, Bach was primarily valued as an organist, while his keyboard music, such as The Well-Tempered Clavier, was appreciated for its didactic qualities. The 19th century saw the publication of some significant Bach biographies, and by the end of that century, all of his known music had been printed. Dissemination of scholarship on the composer continued through periodicals (and later also websites) exclusively devoted to him and other publications such as the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV, a numbered catalogue of his works) and new critical editions of his compositions. His music was further popularised through a multitude of arrangements, including the Air on the G String and "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", and of recordings, such as three different box sets with complete performances of his oeuvre marking the 250th anniversary of his death.
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