Chill With Bach

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Release Date: 08 January 2003

Label: Naxos - Bonuses (30%) / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 730099678629

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: CHILL WITH BACH

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Chill with BachBorn in 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach belonged to a dynasty ofmusicians. He spent his earlier career principally as an organist, latterly atthe court of one of the two ruling Grand Dukes of Weimar. In 1717 he moved toCothen as Court Kapellmeister to the young Prince Leopold and in 1723 made hisfinal move to Leipzig, where he was employed as Cantor at the Choir School ofSt. Thomas, with responsibility for music in the five principal city churches.Despite widespread neglect for almost a century after his death in 1750, Bachis now regarded as one of the greatest of all composers. Choral & vocal music Bach wrote a very large amount of choral music, particularlyin connection with his employment at Leipzig, where he prepared complete cyclesof cantatas for use throughout the church year. These works include the Mass inB minor, BWV 232, the St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, the St. John Passion, BWV245, the Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, and the Easter Oratorio, BWV 249, withthe revised setting of the Magnificat, BWV 243. Many of Bach's cantatas arelost, but historians can estimate that he must have written over 500 suchpieces. Most were written for church services, for Bach was expected to performcantatas every Sunday at the church. He also wrote secular cantatas for specialcourt occasions. Organ & other keyboard music Much of Bach's organ music was written during the earlierpart of his career, culminating in the period he spent as court organist atWeimar. Important sets of pieces for keyboard are the six English Suites BWV806-811; the six French Suites BWV 812-817, the Goldberg Variations BWV 988,written to soothe an insomniac patron; the Italian Concerto BWV 971, the sixPartitas BWV 825-830 and the monumental two books of preludes and fugues in allkeys, The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846-893, the so-called \Forty-Eight. Chamber music During the period Bach spent at Cothen he was able to devotehis attention more particularly to instrumental composition for soloinstruments, smaller groups or for the small court orchestra. Particularlyimportant are the three Sonatas and three Partitas for unaccompanied violin,BWV 1001-1006, works that make great technical demands on a player, and the sixSuites for unaccompanied cello, BWV 1007-1012. Orchestral music The six Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051, dedicated tothe Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, feature a variety of forms and groups ofinstruments, while the four Orchestral Suites or Overtures, BWV 1066-1069,include the famous Air on the G string, a late 19th century transcription ofthe Air from the Suite in D major, BWV 1068. Three of Bach's violin concertos,written at Cothen between 1717 and 1723, survive in their original form, withothers existing now only in later harpsichord transcriptions. The works inoriginal form are the concertos in A minor and in E major, BWV 1041 and 1042,and the Double Concerto in D minor, for two violins, BWV 1043. Tracks 1 and 18Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria &n
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