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J. S. Bach : Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C major BWV 1061 - Fuga

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  • Simply too fast.

    Any technical perfection is spoiled by this crazy speed.

  • @The010Snap Sounds like Trevor Pinnock and Kenneth Gilbert with the English Concert, but I'm not sure.

  • @wcbroccoli Sorry for late reply, I just saw your note. I DO know, that the harpsichord concerts are virtuoso pieces and that they were played by members of Bach's family. What I want to know is: WHO is playing in this record?? (And: Do not underestimate little old ladies – take care of their handbags :-)))

  • @The010Snap This is not a piece to be played by or for little old ladies who like slow, clueless, anachronistic, Late Romantic Bach. It's a virtuoso piece composed for the Bachian Collegium Concerts (reported by contemporary accounts to be the best in Leipzig) which Bach directed in the 1730s in Leipzig. The harpsichords would have been played by Bach and, probably, one his sons. His 2nd son, CPE Bach, said his father liked to play fast.

  • WHO was playing this? It is so breath-taking fast, but I think, it´s the real speed. Why? O.K., you MUST be familiar with the piece, but if you are, it shows you all the fun, the joy which this music contains. A funny, playful talk between two instruments. Great!

  • when i first heard the theme i said "wtf is this fast forward ???" but then i got used to it and its so cool !

  • @FollowBaneFTW It would be "Neoclassical power metal," however that would require bach to be imitating an older style of music by that name. No... I'm afraid that any form of "metal" has yet to offer to the world a genius of Bachs caliber. I also fear, that it is incapable of doing so. Bach was an artist who took the ancient rules of counterpoint and demonstrated utter mastery of them. "Metal" is a genre where each artist writes "his own" rules, ergo he is very confined indeed.

  • @JoFrSc Listen to Bach's "Et in Terra Pax" from his mass in B minor!!!!! The closest we will get to heaven in this lifetime!

  • great performance

    I would really like to know: whose interpretation is it?

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