Percy Whitlock plays Bach - 'Gigue Fugue BWV 577

[MEPPO06]

My, some dumb comments here. The point is not how anyone would play this now - but the amazing document of performance practice 70-odd years ago. Fascinating indeed.

[passacaglia28]

What an awesome piece!

[robertgift]

Sad.

This brings false validity to the saying, "The goodie young."

From what did he die?

[advisorC101]

TB.

[1401JSC]

Is death ever "timely"?

Whitlock's tuberculosis was diagnosed when he was 17, I believe. Other complications came later, including blindness at the end.

strangely many of his original manuscripts seem to have been lost.

[advisorC101]

A very good point you make, its just a way of emphasising my sympathy for him. I don't believe the time of death is fixed either.

It is strange.

[adamworth1979]

@advisorC101 I truly agree... Most rappers and pop "musicians" do well deserve a timely death however.

[tonyleeson1]

Percy Whitlock was a close friend of my father (1893-1941) Charles Leeson who was the organist and choirmaster at Corpus Christi Church Boscombe (1919-1941) My father died following the bombing of our house in Southbourne. Charles also played at the Pavilion, Regent and Electric cinemas and in the early days the piano for silent films. It is a little known fact that Percy Whitlock had two thumbs on one hand!

[advisorC101]

@tonyleeson1, thank you for that.

[pipeorganloverNJP]

I wish the quality wasn't so bad. I couldn't really hear much. -_-