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150: The Early Cantatas, All Summed Up.
We’ve now covered the seven surviving earliest vocal works by Johann Sebastian Bach! This episode is a brief tour through the episodes we dedicated t…
9 hours ago
149: The Battle Between Life and Death
“The consummate expressiveness of {BWV 4] has always been marvelled at. Each verse is as if chiselled in music.” -Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2
Bach’s ear…
1 week, 5 days ago
148: Ballooning! (Flying in the 18th Century)
Sometimes an article from the EB strikes me as so amusing, I simply have to share it with you. See you next week (or the week after, latest) for the …
3 weeks ago
147: Is This Cantata Even By Bach?
Q: If, after you attended a Bach concert, someone told you that your favorite piece on the program was not, after all, by Bach… how would you feel?
Do…
4 weeks ago
146: Toccata’s Twin! Double Fugue in F
Forever paired with the giant Toccata BWV 540, it’s unlikely the two were conceived together. Still, owing to certain sources and the fact that this …
1 month ago
145: Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196
Bach married his second cousin, Maria Barbara, on October 17, 1707, in St. Bartholomäi’s Church (pictured in the cover image) in a charming little vi…
1 month, 1 week ago
144: Why (And How) I Became An Organist
Opsimath Organist
My first trip to Germany (I was 21) I walked into a church in Weimar and heard— by beautiful coincidence— an unseen organist play Ba…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
143: Special Guest, Emma Smith (University of Oxford)
“For something to be relevant, is it outside of time, or is it somehow speaking to us directly, now?” -Emma Smith
Today’s guest is Emma Smith! Profess…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
142: Monster Toccata in F, BWV 540
About four years ago I made an episode about Bach’s ‘longest’ piece:
Somehow I missed a piece which should definitely be in contention for his ‘longes…
2 months ago
Classical Music ...Robots.
PG-13 Warning
Songs Without Lungs
Of course I’m not worried about AI replacing me. I’m a pianist. No one will ever pay to watch robots perform.
And then…
2 months, 2 weeks ago