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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #45 on: 11:18:44, 23-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 09:33:09, 23-04-2008
that there are not enough notes on the clavichord to play it (since the lowest note is CC)!

Ah, how literal-minded you are, Baz Wink
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« Reply #46 on: 22:38:41, 23-04-2008 »
B r e a k i n g   n e w s.................B r e a k i n g  n e w s...............

Dwarf astounds the musical world by performing from memory J. S. Bach's Concerto in G Minor for Steinway Grand, while singing Yankee-Doodle Dandy to himself throughout the playing.

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« Reply #47 on: 22:44:52, 23-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 09:33:09, 23-04-2008
that there are not enough notes on the clavichord to play it (since the lowest note is CC)!

Possibly a short octave?

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« Reply #48 on: 22:49:01, 23-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 22:38:41, 23-04-2008
B r e a k i n g   n e w s.................B r e a k i n g  n e w s...............

Dwarf astounds the musical world by performing from memory J. S. Bach's Concerto in G Minor for Steinway Grand, while singing Yankee-Doodle Dandy to himself throughout the playing.

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If you like that, you'll love this.
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« Reply #49 on: 08:04:57, 24-04-2008 »
And now for another piece of authentic trans-atlantic Bach, played supposedly as "Bach would have liked it"? The victim this time is the Fugue in C Minor (WTC Book 1)...

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« Reply #50 on: 08:59:29, 24-04-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 22:49:01, 23-04-2008
If you like that, you'll love this.

It is mostly show is not it? The way the player sinks in utter exhaustion at the final note, would not Bach hiself have thought it rather overdone? On the positive side he makes despite the exaggerated gestures no mistakes.

Quote from: Baz on 08:04:57, 24-04-2008
And now for another piece of authentic trans-atlantic Bach, played supposedly as "Bach would have liked it"? The victim this time is the Fugue in C Minor (WTC Book 1)...

Oh dear! We turned that off very hastily indeed after ten seconds or so.

Something nice is called for, and quickly. So having exhausted Bach in C, and just before we modulate to Bach in F, let us present to-day as interlude a crackpot's version of Chopin, which is to say, an étude sans pianoforte. Here (rapidshare) and here (sendspace) is the renowned opus 25 number 1.
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« Reply #51 on: 13:33:22, 24-04-2008 »
G Minor seems to be a key that attracts genuine crackpots. Here are two different (but equally crackpottish) versions of Mozart's G Minor Symphony K 550...

Crackpot Mozart 1

Crackpot Mozart 2
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« Reply #52 on: 13:58:53, 24-04-2008 »
The source material for crackpotoria is especially rich from our transatlantic 'neighbors'. Virgil Fox - the 'Liberace' of the organ - here gives us his truly crackpot 'take' on Bach's 'Gigue' Fugue BWV 577. (In case you might have missed the pedal entry, he repeats it as an encore). Enjoy!

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« Reply #53 on: 14:09:09, 24-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 08:04:57, 24-04-2008
And now for another piece of authentic trans-atlantic Bach, played supposedly as "Bach would have liked it"? The victim this time is the Fugue in C Minor (WTC Book 1)...

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AAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHH  !
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« Reply #54 on: 23:41:08, 24-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 08:04:57, 24-04-2008
And now for another piece of authentic trans-atlantic Bach, played supposedly as "Bach would have liked it"? The victim this time is the Fugue in C Minor (WTC Book 1)...

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File under "Don't they look young?!"  That must be at least fifteen years ago.

Luther Henderson did various silly jazzed up arrangements for Canadian Brass.  This is my favourite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5wH7yEDR7I

Fred Mills' 'clarinet' playing gets me every time.  Truly a great ensemble.

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« Reply #55 on: 00:13:33, 25-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 13:33:22, 24-04-2008
G Minor seems to be a key that attracts genuine crackpots. Here are two different (but equally crackpottish) versions of Mozart's G Minor Symphony K 550...

Crackpot Mozart 1

Crackpot Mozart 2

Eech!

One think I'm never sure of about this ringtone is whether the tune is 1 beat in or 5 beats.  The Shadows play as if it's 1. but there again their's is probably not the definite interpretation.

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« Reply #56 on: 00:30:23, 25-04-2008 »
One more defilation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6afLVUnimI&feature=related

always useful to have a trombonist who is a decent tenor.

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« Reply #57 on: 09:17:19, 25-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 13:58:53, 24-04-2008
The source material for crackpotoria is especially rich from our transatlantic 'neighbors'. Virgil Fox - the 'Liberace' of the organ  . . .

It is a performance which contrives to be at once amusing - we cannot help but be amused - and scarcely credible. We laugh that is to say but really it is a gathering of monsters is not it? - and we are profoundly thankful not to have been present!

This morning's aberration after the beautiful Chopin of yesterday returns to Bach; it is a version of his cheerful F major Prelude from the first book of 48: rapidshare or sendspace.
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« Reply #58 on: 10:15:31, 25-04-2008 »
Yet again Mr Grew demonstrates how cold and boring the music of Bach can sound when performed without any response at all to the moment-by-moment interplay and expressiveness of melody, harmony and rhythm. In this case we have another synthesized rendition in which - for every single note - the Start Time and the End Time remain set to ZERO. No person of any quality could work in this way, yielding as it does no phrasing, no flexibility, and no response to any of the natural inflections that arise as the music progresses and develops.

This is merely 'cardboard music'!

Baz
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« Reply #59 on: 16:16:41, 25-04-2008 »
Quote from: Baz on 08:04:57, 24-04-2008
And now for another piece of authentic trans-atlantic Bach, played supposedly as "Bach would have liked it"? The victim this time is the Fugue in C Minor (WTC Book 1)...

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Well I thought it was very enjoyable! Cheesy
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