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2021-05-17 06:32:51
Side-stepping with deft elegance the issue of what instrument the music was written for, Andrew Wilder reinvents Bach's Lute Suites on classical guitar
[…] was not available on lutes commonly used in Leipzig. Also, from the layout of the work it is clear that Bach was working at the keyboard. The music exists in a lute tablature which dates from 1760 and which makes significant adaption of the original which must, however have seemed rather old-fashioned compared the the lute music of the period. The Suite in E minor, BWV 996, is subtitled by the copyist 'aufs Lauten werck' (referring to the lute-harpsichord) and stylistically the music has many similarities to keyboard music written before 1712. It is rather keyboard orientated and players often simplify the density, leading us to another point, if Bach did write these pieces for lute then he worked things out at a keyboard rather than using a lute and writing in lute tablature. The Suite in C minor BWV 997 exists in several early copies (one perhaps […]
2015-07-29 23:28:21
Thanks for indulging my mystery pianist contest. I was less interested in stumping the listeners than in collecting a set of comparison pianists to relate the style to. I am grateful to all who obliged. Not surprisingly, my Downtown comrade Tom Hamilton confidently nailed the answer: it’s our late friend Elodie Lauten, playing her Variations on […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-01-25 19:36:56
Christian Thielemann: We should listen to Pegida issues
The German conductor has written an article, calling on the nation to pay attention to the issues raised by the anti-Moslem Pegida demonstrations in Dresden. Thielemann stands on the right of German politics. His article is seeded with a number of political messages, some of them inexplicit. In order to avoid any distortion, we publish the full article below in the original German, highlighting a few key lines in English. The article appeared on a full page of Die Zeit on Thursday. It was not posted online and no reaction has yet been published. The Sächsische Zeitung posted it online today. The German headline reads: Wir müssen endlich auf die Fragen hören, mit denen uns das Phänomen Pegida konfrontiert. We must finally listen to the questions confronted by the Pegida phenomenon Die Mitarbeiter der Semperoper verspüren seit Wochen ein Unbehagen, montags zur Arbeit zu gehen. […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2014-09-15 15:32:36
Gidon Kremer’s anti-political manifesto: Now in Russian
The great violinist’s important statement on the darkening political situation has been translated unofficially by Russian media and circulated in Putin land. For the English original, see here. К концерту “Моя Россия” Я решил по целому ряду причин заменить запланированный нами спектакль-концерт “Все о Гидоне” в Земпер-опере, который должен был быть частью цикла моих концертов этого сезона в качестве “Капелле-виртуоза” в Дрезденской государственной капелле. Во-первых, я не могу оставаться безразличным к драматическим событиям, связанным с Россией и Украиной, которые очень напоминают ситуацию в Европе накануне Второй мировой войны. Во-вторых, хотя у меня нет ни малейшего намерения становиться политиком, – я чувствую себя обязанным, как артист, как музыкант, выражать свои переживания посредством музыки. Будучи крайне обеспокоен степенью инертности, с которой реагируют на нынешние трагические события большинство людей, облеченных властью и влиянием, я должен сказать и о собственном чувстве беспомощности. Тем не менее, я слежу за событиями ежедневно, и […]
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