{"id":6224,"date":"2014-02-28T03:25:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T11:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6224"},"modified":"2014-02-28T03:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T11:28:22","slug":"7-posts-in-7-days-five-favorite-bach-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6224","title":{"rendered":"7 Posts in 7 Days: Five Favorite Bach Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/fivefavorites.jpg\" alt=\"Five Favorites\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling really twitchy about a family situation (I can&#8217;t discuss it publicly out of respect for that family member) so I&#8217;m up posting and I thought I&#8217;d listen to some Bach to calm me down.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m a classically trained pianist and vocalist.  I rarely play piano publicly anymore and I don&#8217;t have opportunity to sing much because of Daniel.  To be clear, I&#8217;m not a soloist &#8212; I&#8217;m one of those people who loves to lend support to a community choral group.  Bach is considered &#8220;the master&#8221; and it was pretty much expected when I participated in <a href=\"http:\/\/pianoguild.com\/page\/nztj\/Auditions_Programs.html\" title=\"Guild Auditions\">Guild Auditions<\/a> that one of my Baroque pieces would be something by Bach.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>One<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Concerto for Two Pianos C major BWV 1061 (Vivace)<\/strong>  This is the third movement of the concerto and it&#8217;s a fugue.  If I could, I would have this as the ring tone for my cell phone.  I liken the piece to children playing tag with the way that the theme jumps from person to person and instrument to instrument.  This particular video does a good job of showing it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bach: Concerto for Two Pianos C major BWV 1061 (Vivace)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cdbf9ZGhN3I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Two<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Jesus bleibet meine Freude&#8221; BWV 147<\/strong>  The English for this one is &#8220;Jesu, Joy of Man&#8217;s Desiring&#8221; and it should be familiar to many people.  It was my first vocal solo (singing soprano with my friend Joyce doing second soprano and my friend Sunitha singing alto &#8212; absolutely terrifying for me but so incredibly wonderful) and it was also the processional at my wedding.  I have probably 5 versions of it in my iTunes and on my &#8220;Bach and Baroque&#8221; playlist.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J. S. Bach  -  &quot;Jesus bleibet meine Freude&quot; BWV 147\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d9EN27Zh_vg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Three<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prelude and Fugue No.12 in F Minor BWV 881 from &#8220;The Well-Tempered Clavier&#8221;<\/strong>  This pianist does it well but my favorite version is from Windham Hill&#8217;s album &#8220;The Bach Variations&#8221; with Philip Aaberg playing it.  I&#8217;m biased because he actually played it for a concert at the Montana Synod Assembly in 2006.  I swear every bone in my body relaxed during it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J.S.Bach - The Well Tempered Clavier: Book II: Prelude and Fugue No.12 in F Minor - S. Richter\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/77BWICJAXe4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Four<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake) BWV 645<\/strong>  My <a href=\"http:\/\/margaretkvammemusic.com\/\" title=\"Margaret Kvamme\">church choir director in high school<\/a> was one of my professors in <a href=\"http:\/\/ucsc.edu\" title=\"UC Santa Cruz\">college<\/a>.  (I sang in the Women&#8217;s Chorale for 5 quarters and she was my conductor for 3 of them.)  This is a piece that I remember her playing as an offertory when I was home from college.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake, BWV 645); Rodney Gehrke, organ 4K HD Video\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WvweJ1lLcZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Five<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Little&#8221; Fugue in G minor, BWV 578<\/strong> This is the piece that was used in Music Appreciation in high school to explain the structure of a fugue.  It&#8217;s a pretty well-known piece and I chose this particular video to show you how insanely intricate it is.  One of the reasons that Bach is considered &#8220;the master&#8221; for many people is that his music sounds so simple when in reality, it takes a great deal of skill to make it sound that way.  Polyphony for the win!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[K\u00f6bler] Bach: Fuga in g &quot;Little&quot;, BWV 578\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z6Kq60w-AXk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Go love up <a href=\"http:\/\/moxiewife.com\" title=\"Hallie\">Hallie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/moxiewife.com\/2014\/02\/five-favorites-vol-48\/.html\" title=\"Five Favorites (vol. 48)\">the others<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling really twitchy about a family situation (I can&#8217;t discuss it publicly out of respect for that family member) so I&#8217;m up posting and I thought I&#8217;d listen to some Bach to calm me down. 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