Johann Sebastian Bach On balance, probably my favourite composer of all time. His music is not just extremely good, it's unreasonably good - no human should be capable of writing stuff of such a consistently high standard.
Well-Tempered Clavier (BWV847) Book 1, Preludes 24 in B minor, and 21 in B flat major are two of my favourites. There was a brilliant series on BBC2 a couple of years ago, which featured one of four pianists talking about, and performing a prelude and accompanying fugue. I keep checking to see if they've released it on DVD - Amazon reckons it's available as Region 1, but there doesn't seem to be a Region 2 edition available.
Goldberg Variations That's another good one. I've got CDs of both of Glenn Gould's recordings of this - the original 1955 one and the 1981 version. They're both very different interpretations of the same suite (and both have Gould's characteristic tuneless mumbling in the background, of course).
Blowzabella They're good, too. I've only got one of their albums (Wall of Sound) but there used to be a rather eclectic programme on my local radio station back in Nottingham where they'd turn up on a reasonably regular basis - particularly A Richer Dust.
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Date: 2005-06-08 01:36 pm (UTC)On balance, probably my favourite composer of all time. His music is not just extremely good, it's unreasonably good - no human should be capable of writing stuff of such a consistently high standard.
Well-Tempered Clavier (BWV847)
Book 1, Preludes 24 in B minor, and 21 in B flat major are two of my favourites. There was a brilliant series on BBC2 a couple of years ago, which featured one of four pianists talking about, and performing a prelude and accompanying fugue. I keep checking to see if they've released it on DVD - Amazon reckons it's available as Region 1, but there doesn't seem to be a Region 2 edition available.
Goldberg Variations
That's another good one. I've got CDs of both of Glenn Gould's recordings of this - the original 1955 one and the 1981 version. They're both very different interpretations of the same suite (and both have Gould's characteristic tuneless mumbling in the background, of course).
Blowzabella
They're good, too. I've only got one of their albums (Wall of Sound) but there used to be a rather eclectic programme on my local radio station back in Nottingham where they'd turn up on a reasonably regular basis - particularly A Richer Dust.