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⚓️ in Paris (Friday, June 14th 2022 - St Jean-Baptiste)

Jean-Sébastien Bach

BWV 825 Mark Edwards

Stunning performance of Mark Edwards on harpsichord :

via @bachverenging

It was already clear in the eighteenth century: Bach made high demands on the keyboard player.

This first partita in Bach’s series of six keyboard partitas appeared in print in 1726. The rest followed in subsequent years and the complete set of six was reprinted in 1731. As early as 1739, music connoisseur Lorenz Christoph Mizler wrote in a review of the repeatedly reprinted organ method or Wegweiser for “the art of playing the organ correctly” that “he who cannot move his fingers better than this will scarcely be able to learn to play the Partitas for the clavier by our famous Herr Bach of Leipzig”. This remark says something about the basic standard aimed at in this method in Mizler’s review, but also about Bach’s partitas.

The Partita in B-flat major immediately lives up to that reputation of above average ‘finger movements’. It becomes apparent in the Praeludium, when the theme we hear at the beginning in the upper part then appears in the left hand with trills and all. And there is something in every movement where a mediocre or careless keyboard player might mess up the fingering. Sometimes it simply concerns a stream of fast arpeggios and leaps in both hands, as in the Corrente. In the slow Sarabande, the challenge lies more in the elegant phrasing of the ornaments and flourishes that are in full view, due to the sparing accompaniment. One small mistake is immediately noticeable.

When the keyboard player then arrives at the two minuets, it appears that the worst of the danger is over, as here Bach does not demand particularly difficult struggles for the fingers. But it was not without reason that Mizler took the partitas as an example. The Gigue that closes the first partita is a tour de force of keyboard technique, which was unparalleled in Bach’s day. With the right hand continually jumping over the left hand, here it is not just the fingers in motion, but the whole hand!

2022-05 Nederlandse Bachvereniging All of Bach (Netherlands Bach Society) : Advanced Keyboard Technique

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BWV 529 - Ton Koopman

> À la fin des années 1720, Bach compila six grandes sonates pour orgue. Dans cette Sonate no. 5 en taille C, il a réutilisé un travail lent de son Weimartij, maintenant entouré de pièces extérieurs rapides récemment écrites, chacune construite aussi impressionnante. De plus, Bach intègre commodément divers styles qu'un organiste de l'époque moderne aurait dû maîtriser. Nouveau aujourd'hui sur All of Bach : la Sonate en C grand BWV 529 interprétée par Ton Koopman sur l'orgue Hildebrandt à Naumburg. Cet enregistrement a été rendu possible grâce au soutien de Howard Fee.

Enregistrement complet sur : AllOfBach:bwv-529

Gibraltar : une attaque d'orques filmée

> Les orques sont reparties après avoir croqué la moitié d’un safran

2022-06-20 Voiles et Voiliers - Ouest-France : Une attaque d’orques sur un voilier filmée par une caméra sous-marine

Groupe Facebook à suivre pour les autres attaques et surveillance de la zone Portugal - Gibraltar > https://www.facebook.com/groups/435540734439160 (Orca attack reporting)

Feux de la Saint Jean

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• Saint John's Eve

Celeb Rosemary in BBQ

> Today is sextidi 6 Messidor in the year of the Republic CCXXX, celebrating rosemary.