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61: Why Is 2024 An Important Bach Year?
In this episode we delve into Bach’s second cantata cycle begun in 1724. The first two cantatas are briefly covered, (with two further cantatas to fo…
2 years, 9 months ago
60: My Mini Concert for You
I rarely just play on this podcast, but that’s how I’d like to package this little present for my listeners. Rather than spending days researching an…
2 years, 9 months ago
59: The First Double Fugue in History
In today’s episode we have a look at one of Bach’s Arnstadt masterpieces, the fugue in c minor BWV 574 on a theme by Giovanni Maria Bononcini (The co…
2 years, 9 months ago
58: I Play Bach's Table of Ornaments
EDIT June 2024. I have misunderstood the term ‘Applicatio’ in this episode. I now understand it to refer to the application of the fingering — not th…
2 years, 10 months ago
57: Bach and the Golden Ratio.
N.B. (2025) I am rethinking some of my opinions made in this podcast regarding the Golden Ratio. At the moment I remain unconvinced of Bach’s brute c…
2 years, 10 months ago
56: Bach's Most Joyful Piece? (Chorale Preludes x2)
In this episode I delve into two very diverse chorale preludes: one from the so-called, “Great 18” and one from the individually transmitted.
Here is…
2 years, 11 months ago
55: Introducing The Chorale! Chorale Preludes, Four-Part Chorales, &c.
In 1300, the word carol meant, a joyful dance in a ring accompanied by singers. The word choir also began to emerge, spelled cuer, queor, even quyre,…
3 years ago
54: The Crab Canon Isn’t a Möbius Strip.
Though this episode starts with quite the extended introduction, this is in fact
EPISODE THREE
In a four-part study into the 14 additional canons on th…
3 years, 2 months ago
53: Special Guest: Joshua Rifkin. One Voice Per Part
Finally! The influential Joshua Rifkin guests on the WTF Bach Podcast.
Rifkin made Bach fame with his groundbreaking (and controversial!) theory that…
3 years, 2 months ago
52: Casals, Rostropovich... più allegro
Q: What if those really slow interpretations of the cello suites from the 30s and 50s could be sped up?
A: Exactly.
https://www.jsbachcellosuites.com …
3 years, 3 months ago