J. S. Bach -- kinda bummed this hasn't been asked yet?

Question

Happy 326th Big Boy. Today I celebrate with one of my favorites - Brandenburg Concerto No. 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDrLX7FXba4

What piece of Bach's music are you celebrating with today?

Answer 1

At his venerable age I think nothing would cheer him up more than to hear what influence he has had on three of his most intimately akin admirers, each in their own way, and each to beyond lasting effect of everlasting value to the Art he himself served so very, very well:



W.A. Mozart -- Fugue in c-minor for two pianos K426

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3gmzJqRcU&feature=related



F. Chopin -- Fugue in a-minor op.posth.-- an extraordinary little piece, little understood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0RrT6hMOgI



the knowledge of which when gained & digested eventually turned into



F. Chopin -- Ballade IV op.52

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIW39VXfTbU&feature=related



And for dessert the truly monumental, in an equally miraculously monumental live, 1941 performance by Rudolf Serkin:



M. Reger -- Variations & Fugue on a Theme by Bach op.81

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqoOWQsPCY8



Happy birthday, you annoyingly un-ignorable Old Duffer: your Sisyphean Labours have not gone unnoticed nor unheeded... :-)



*N*

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Bach Partita No. 3

Answer 4

My birthday comes just three days after Bach's, so I should always remember him with a celebratory piece. He is, of course, our Model composer, having given us so much sterling music to instruct and bedazzle us. But in honor of his birthday, today I select :



"Now Thank We All Our God" (Nun Danket), for organ -- preferably the Virgil Fox arrangement played on the magnificent Riverside Church organ in New Your City....what a sound!



I sometimes play a few pages of this piece on the classic guitar where it sounds surprisingly quite good, if a bit abbreviated. Fox's arrangement is in the key of C-major, but works better in G-major on guitar. It is a handful on guitar of course (and quite exciting), but I love the music and cannot resist a shot at it from time to time. Thanks for reminding us of his birthday.



Cliff E. (classic guitarist)

Answer 5

Doggone it, I forgot!

Too late now, because I'm on the other side of the International Date Line, where it's March 22.



One time a Wagner fan celebrated Wagner's birthday by staying home from work,

where he watched the entire Ring Cycle on video.

He invited his friends over, and one friend stayed the whole time.



I'm ashamed of myself.

Answer 6

I'm presently working on the 2nd Partita in c minor, so I will happily say this is my birthday present to Mr. JS. At the present speed I am learning this Partita it well may be his present for his 327th.





@Nemesis, I think it would be nice if you treated all of us attending this birthday party by playing something on the piano.

Answer 7

Oh, Please. What's one more year when you're 325 years old already?



However, a tribute or two might be due anytime after the decease....

An assembled tribute from the "Bach of the 20th century," Igor Stravinsky:



First, the appropriate anniversary tune: "Greeting Prelude."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z815Kqiy1Q&feature=related



Then, ~ modeled after, a clear tribute to the Brandenburg Concerti

Concerto in E-flat, "Dumbarton Oaks."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQszFzbxwbM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8_XpOcmB8I&feature=related



and....

Von Himmel Hoch variations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNAmF6vQTZk



and, once again, "to grow on."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJooJFhgRDk





Best regards.

Answer 8

Thanks for reminding us of J.S. Bach. He'll never forgive me for having forgotten his birthday!

J.S. Bach is my hero and he knows my very favorite are The Goldberg Variations, which I used to

play until some time ago.

Maybe I'll sit at the piano and play at least half of them.



J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations: Aria (Glenn Gould)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCuALWK6ZNg



J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations 1-10 (Glenn Gould)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLIKg_ft-zE

Answer 9

Whoops - sorry JS, I forgot. I'm actually listening to Vivaldi's Vespers today.



But thanks to Mr. Jones' nudge in the ribs, I promise I'll play a CD of JSB's Preludes and Fugues (Book 1) - after I've finished my Vegemite on toast.



Hafwen x

Answer 10

Happy Birthday "ole fellow": a really GOOD SHOW!



Either of two:



Toccata & Fugue in F-major BWV 540: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbshiVAHm3k



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvkoYYZrjCM&feature=related



Fantasy in G-major BWV 572: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG0cTLyOsmU



Alberich

Answer 11

Well, obviously the chorale "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir"



Then the Easter Oratorio

Answer 12

I played some unaccompanied Bach cello suites today on my viola.

Answer 13

How about Stokowski's wonderful orchestration of the great Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582?



Happy birthday, Johnny baby! Thanks for all the great tunes :-)

Answer 14

This specific, exact, particular, perfect performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsqeZgEWoIg

Answer 15

http://soundcloud.com/funzo-1