Bach

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[alandavid]

Thanks for share

 

[tones]

Brilliant. thanks. Always a treat to watch someone doing something wonderfully well - and combine that with history's greatest composer and you have a knockout.

 

[Plato]

Thanks

 

[Andrei]

Well that is the funniest looking violin I have ever seen.

 

[brystonian]

Very cool, thanks.

 

[take5]

Thanks for that link. Great stuff.

I dont know the original violin version, but it does sound great on the guitar.

 

[TheMooN]

Non too shabby either ~ [video=youtube;n41DXVn1_GE]

 

[barry2tone]

Few more days to catch R4's meander through biography/psychology/organ building/head reconstruction. The Secret Life.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bds3t

 

[stax92]

I used to love playing Bach pieces on the guitar, proper music, and it seemed to build and go somewhere rather than just noodle around like Carcassi or Sor. I played for my own pleasure not anybody elses and this one was a treat


Anyway, waffling aside, everybody should read this book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

 

[brystonian]

I used to love playing Bach on the guitar too.

By far my favourite classical composer. I'd sit there for hours and just forget the time. Some fantastic pieces of music. This was probably my favourite:

[video=youtube;9M1D9D89MW4]

The book looks remarkable. If I bump my head and my IQ miraculously jumps up 40 points, I'll give it a read. :mrgreen:

 

[stax92]

Jim, there's something timeless about Bach. I haven't heard that one in a long time so thank you. Do have a look at the book, it's not as complicated as the Wiki makes out. It's very clever in form and substance and starts very simply (like a fugue I suppose) plus there's plenty of nice pictures in it courtesy of Max Escher Godel stated a theorem in logic that Alan Turing (before he was sidetracked by the war) invented the computer, or at least the Turing Machine, to demonstrate and he plays a large part in the book too.

Anyone who has the application to play BWV 997 can read and understand that book

 

[brystonian]

I dunno! I think my fingers were smarter then, than my brain is now. :nuts:

I'll give it a read and see how I get on.

I've always been a big fan of Turing and his work.

 

[stax92]

You may have been to Bletchley Park Jim, worth a trip if not. I took my lad who's fascinated by the history of computing and after we'd had a talk about Colossus and how it was rebuilt with something like 2,000 valves in it, the fella cranked it up and ran some routines on it. We were both speechless that it was working before our very eyes and then the guide handed out sections of paper tape from the machine itself to us as souvenirs :notworthy:

 

[barry2tone]

:rofl: J.S. Bach vs Star Wars.

[video=vimeo;88884921]

https://player.vimeo.com/video/88884921

 

[peteAllen]

 

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Nice but doesn't it sound too tame on guitar or lute? Or is it the performance? Just seems too casual and flat to me, where is the passion, the fire, the drama, the sense of urgency? I prefer something with more depth and complexity / variation of tone.Check out this version of the same movement (starts at 13:50):

[video=youtube;fOTUcb9k9u8]

Yes its on a completely different instrument which has a whole different sound world and strengths the main one being sustain.

 

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[barry2tone]

3 minutes, including a brief intermission.

[video=vimeo;12146214]

https://player.vimeo.com/video/12146214