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November 2024

November 24: Keyboard Works, including the Italian Concerto (Sviatoslav Richter, and others)
A few things you can play.
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November 18: Keyboard Works, including the Partitas (Various Artists)
On Bach's great love for the keys
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November 11: Cantatas (Bachakademie; Helmuth Rilling, conductor)
Feeling elegiac during my final set of choral works
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November 4: The Violin Sonatas and Partitas (Jascha Heifetz, violin)
When it's wrong, and when it's right
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October 2024

October 28: Vocal Works (Various Artists)
Bach goes to synagogue, or the synagogue came to Bach, or God did it.
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October 21: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2; Glenn Gould, piano (and vocals)
We need to talk about Glenn.
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October 17: Cantatas (Bach-Ensemble; Helmuth Rilling, conductor)
On two seconds among thousands
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An Interlude: Meet a Beatle
The moment when I held Paul's hand in mine.
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October 11: Organ Works (Simon Preston, Jörg Halubek, and Ton Koopman, Organ)
The secular and the holy, altogether
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October 2: Cantatas (Bach-Ensemble; Helmuth Rilling, conductor)
Halloween, and how our broken culture deals with death
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