“It is the special province of music to move the heart”*…
From the estimable Ted Gioia…
Here’s one of the best music videos you will see this year.
Bach’s score for The Art of Fugue—perhaps his last work—does not specify the instrumentation, thus giving later musicians tremendous creative latitude. It’s based on [the motif pictured above].
This new video performance, released last week by the Netherlands Bach Society, features an impressive range of settings—starting with solo voices, and working through combinations of a dozen other instruments…
Bach– as Wagner proclaimed, “the most stupendous miracle in all music!”: The Art of the Fugue
* Johann Sebastian Bach
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As we appreciate patterns, we might recall that it was on this date in 1738 that Handel, Bach’s contemporary (he, Bach, and Domenico Scarlatti were all born in 1685), finished his his oratorio Saul and starts Israel in Egypt.
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