Bach/Webern Ricercar - Dohnányi, Philharmonia

klangfarbenmelodie meats fugue,

interesting and effectave in it's own way

This is out of this world! beautiful beyond words!

one of the final fugues Bach ever wrote. the chromatic subject is not his, so this piece shows what he was capable of after years of maturity and hard work. this recording puts an emphasisis on the beauty of the harmony, but kills the ricercar, as the subject is broken down between two instruments. even if the lines are not preserved, it is still a masterful interpretation, which sadly lacks the understanding of the fugue.

i agree to an extent; it feels very disjointed. however, i think you are too concerned with the preservation of the original counterpoint and aren't appreciating the fantastic dichotomy of baroque music and 20th century orchestration.

you are right I guess I am `stuck` in the preservation of the original score as you said. I am trying to listen to modern classical music more and more to broaden my musical `tolerance`.
I hope you understood, I am not used to discuss music in english !

what a tremendous orquestration...
devine :)
thanks for the vídeo

That's the point! and why Webern, as a man of exquisite taste, orchestrated it!

It's easier to 'enjoy Bach' when you're listening to someone playing him as if he were human and not some abstract weird counterpoint nut with a huge powdered wig. It took me a while to understand it, too.

Tons of music never worked for me until someone said, "Here, try THIS - tell me what you think." I loved Mahler and hated Berg until I was dragged to a performance of "Wozzek." What keeps most people away is the Greatest Hits stuff which is usually easy and tame or dull. I couldn't stand string quartets until I heard the Grosse Fuge. I didn't "get" Bach until I heard the more obscure Stokowski transcriptions. Sinatra? Revolting until a girlfriend showed me the pre-"My Way" Sinatra.

Lol. The chinese violinist is so expresive,, lol