Some interesting observations about the Quodlibet in Bach's Goldberg variations.
Some interesting observations about the Quodlibet in Bach's Goldberg variations.

The Best of ʺGravity Bachʺ: 2025 wurde in der Thomaskirche Leipzig Musikgeschichte geschrieben – der Organist Johannes Lang stellte sich der monumentalen Herausforderung, das gesamte Orgelwerk Johann Sebastian Bachs innerhalb von 22 Stunden aufzuführen. Ballett-Ensembles tanzten zur Bach-Musik. Julia Sophie Wagner und Daniel Hope führten als Moderatoren durch den Abend.

The Best of ʺGravity Bachʺ: 2025 wurde in der Thomaskirche Leipzig Musikgeschichte geschrieben – der Organist Johannes Lang stellte sich der monumentalen Herausforderung, das gesamte Orgelwerk Johann Sebastian Bachs innerhalb von 22 Stunden aufzuführen. Ballett-Ensembles tanzten zur Bach-Musik. Julia Sophie Wagner und Daniel Hope führten als Moderatoren durch den Abend.
The first piece that opened me up to the vocal side of Bach was the St John Passion, but immediately afterwards it was a disc with two cantatas on it – BWV 21 and BWV 42. (Both conducted by Philippe Herreweghe.)
This is the second of those, and it's a stunner.

The longer I live with Bach's vocal music, the more I am certain that it is there where we find him at his most whole, the most complete as a composer.
My path to Bach was a function of my upbringing and my instrument; for far too long I knew only instrumental music. When I discovered the cantatas, masses and oratorios, a different picture emerged, one I liked better.
Here, a few hours in advance of his birthday (O.S. 21 March 1685), is a solo cantata, Widerstehe doch der Sünde (BWV 54), sung by Maarten Engeltjes with the Netherlands Bach Society.

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Er war ua Mitglied der Markgräflich Badischen Hofkapelle in Karlsruhe, verbrachte aber auch vier Jahre als Cammer-Musicus und Konzertmeister in Stuttgart am Hof von Herzog Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg.
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Pachelbel: Fantasia in E=Flat Major
Jon Liechty, keyboard

It is a well-known fact that I love a good ground bass, and Purcell’s are among the best. Here’s a *really* excellent one: the unprepossessingly-named Curtain Tune from the music for Timon of Athens.
I wish I could convey to you (if you are a person that does not already share my affinity with ground basses) what joy there is in experiencing how the composer solves the problems posed by the constraints they have willingly placed on themself — that there is a phrase that constantly repeats.
Purcell is the greatest. Enjoy.
