Music
Bach’s Chaconne
On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind. Johannes Brahms
Published
Air on the G string
Air was composed as part of the third overture, BWV 1068, around 1730. It can’t be described, but only listened. It is masterfully executed here by the Voices of Music on period instruments. GT
Published
Can Any Composer Equal Bach?
Johann Sebastian Bach, born March 21st 1685, has done everything completely. He was a man through and through. Franz Schubert
Published
Goldberg Variations
Goldberg variations is one of the very few pieces that JS Bach published (1741) in his lifetime. It was composed for a two-manual harpsichord. It’s beautifully performed here by Helmuth Walcha, a Bach scholar and legend. GT
Published
