A Year of Bach

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September 5: The Art of Fugue (Daniil Trifonov, piano)
An unnerving performance of a monumental work
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September 3: Cantatas (Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir; Ton Koopman, conductor)
Bach and the Baumol effect
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August 2024

August 26: 58 Songs (Various Artists)
I'm a sucker for singers — at least the good ones
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August 19: 16 Concerto Transcriptions for Keyboard; Ivo Janssen, piano
Plus a preview of the Year of Bach's conclusion
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August 14: Cantatas (English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor)
Renowned egomaniac assaults colleague, gets sacked. Now, we listen.
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August 7: The English Suites (BWV 806-811); Suzuki, Argerich, Richter, Schiff, Parmentier, Backhaus
Six extraordinary keyboardists for your pleasure
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July 2024

July 30: Missæ Breves (BWV 232-236); Pygmalion; Raphaël Pichon, conductor.
Bach releases his own Greatest Hits.
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An interlude: Aging alongside the songs inside you
On the transcendent collapse of time
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July 24: Cantatas (BWV 97-103; Stuttgart Bach-Ensemble; Helmuth Rilling, conductor)
Steal these tunes!
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July 17: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1); Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord
Happenstance and personal taste, or "Why be that way, Glenn?"
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July 11: Cantatas (Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Gustav Leonhardt, conductors)
On Michael Hedges, Bach's melodies, and bad casting choices
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July 3: The Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes (Jörg Halubek, organ)
Experience Virtual Reality Organ, or just put on your headphones
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