It was all about mere surface, and we are still stuck with that. The best thing to do is to dump the whole meretricious piffle into the dustbin of history, just as they wanted to do to their past.
BTW: The composer Godowsky composed an absolutely incredible passacaglia and fugue for the piano, both to honor Bach, and Schubert the earlier composer of the theme. It's a piece rarely heard in concert, mainly because it's so monstrously difficult, only the technical titans can even play it! If you like Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue, you owe it to yourself to check this out! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f0nlJXooIVc.htmlsi=Pnaq4lIr0vwvUXtV
I love it. Sounds like an overture from a Wagner Opera. Some awesome batonless conducting. Clear, aware, and You can hear the expression he's putting into the piece. Bravo.
A magnificent performance. We are taken somewhere above earth and made to look down upon the desolation, strife, and warfare of man before embracing the divine truth above. It is more than merely music; it is an experience for the soul. Bach was truly a genius.
After all these years hearing this song, I can play most songs in my mind, but this one, I need to hear a snippet before I remember how it proceeds. I think it's all the simultaneous and recurring tune loops. I'll try and keep at it, maybe one day I might do it without a jumpstart
It wasn't billocks as Osborne says. It was incredibly liberatating. He has soent his life making videos like thus for bigvbucks . Thats bollocks. Freeing your mind from the slave machine is incredible. No one hates freedom more than a slave. I have spent my life living adventures with my family. Not grinding for sofas. I owe that to the heros that set my mind free. Thankyou.
Most under thirty haven't even heard of Pink Floyd. In fifty years nobody will listen to Hendrix or the Rolling Stones, just as nobody under thirty listened to Henry Hall in the mid 60s. The Beatles will be a historical interest but that's about it. But Bach will still be around, just as he has been for nearly three centuries. Who will care about Ogden's Nut Gone Flake or 'Pictures of Lilly' in three centuries? Nobody..
*Originally written as singular notes, to be played one after another, with no two overlapping. Somehow this is what Bach intended. He just didn't know it. How pleased he would be to see this.* 1:47
Well, if you know Bach's music, he later reused the original solo violin work and expanded it to a sinfonia when he had a bigger orchestra available... If we take that as precedent, he would have expanded the work even further if symphonic orchestras had existed in his time.
