JS Bach - Contrapunctus 1 BWV1080

Kitarayhtye Haapis
20.4.2006 in Kuopion Music Centre. Haapis is a student ensemble in Kuopio Conservatoire, and its leader is Vesa Pölkki.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• guitar
• ensemble
• concert

[douzilles]

bach made no tempo indication, so why everybody is saying they rush?

[vexilar1]

I think this performance is wonderful.

[bigmandrel]

@Alkonis No, sorry. My music scholarship is fine, even when I'm drunk on cheap wine. I repeat that this work was written as music to be played not simply as an excercise. In long tradition with contrapuntal keyboard works (e.g. like Samuel Scheidt) this was written in open score and not the common two staved keyboard format. This led many to believe the work had unspecified instrumentation. Not so. Back to the kiddie pool with you, my sweet child.; better yet, back to your piano bench.

[Demmettreus]

Pretty good! Congratulations from Brasil!

[Alkonis]

@bigmandrel Please learn your history. The contrapuncti were written by Bach as an excercise in counterpount; he did not even indicate instruments on the original scores. I believe that if he cared about performances, he would have at least set an instrumentation. They were not written to be studied, but they were obviously not written to be performed.

Modern music theory is entirely based around the composition of Bach. He did not write for future study, but we have learned much from him.

[bigmandrel]

@wmhough Bach's music is "absolute music"? God, I hate that term! What dated hogwash! No, Bach was meant to be played, not studied. What is absolute music anyway? It's some convenient catch-all term invented by the Romantics to hide their laziness in playing frigg'n everything on monster pianos. "Absolute music" as a term is way, way up there on my list of hated and despised words. In fact, only "breakfast taco" and "neoconservative" rank higher.

[iyork]

@douzilles Clearly, many are used to just hearing the piece performed a little slower and are reacting against their expectation.

[xVitaminlessx]

Does anyone have the score of this instrumentation?

[wmhough]

@worshipme27

With absolute music such as the ARt of Fugue the tempo is very much decided by the instrument sustain - the guitars, being percussive instruments decay quicky, thus requiring a faster tempo to realise the longer note durations. In an ideal world, yes, a little fast, but intelligent choice IMHO for guitar ensemble. Cheers.

[Pems33]

Beautiful performance, great!

[Stehnz]

ur totally wrong, anyone that knows a little bit about music would know that baroque tempos are fast

[MrMiettu]

parsta musiikkia ,. pitkään aikaan .