Tononi Records - featuring Benedict Cruft - Sonatas & Partias for Solo Violin http://www.tononirecords.com/ Tononi Records is an independent Record Company which was formed in 2000. The first CD to be published is a 2CD album of J.S.Bach's Sonatas & Partias (sic, you will see why we have used Partia rather than Partita, if you visit the site) for solo violin played by Benedict Cruft. Cruft has been specialising in performing these six masterpieces as a set, over a pair of recitals since 1987 and recorded them in a six day period in the Autumn (fall) of 1998 in the glorious acoustics of the early Norman Binham Priory in Norfolk. Commercial Events Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
Andrea Padova - Pianist http://utenti.tripod.it/andreapadova/ Andrea Padova first achieved critical attention when he won the "J.S.Bach" International Piano Competition in 1995 and since then has been widely considered "one of the most important contemporary interpreters of Bach on the Piano" (Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung). Audio Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
Ashmont Music - Patricia McCarty - J.S. Bach - Six Cello Suites performed on viola http://www.ashmontmusic.com/ Ashmont Music is a small independent record label and distributor specializing in viola repertoire. Here you will find information about recordings currently available from us and be able to order them. Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
Bob Gallway - Partitas for Alto Saxophone and Keyboard http://www.bobbyalto.com/ Partitas for Keyboard with Alto Saxophone! Bob Gallway - Sax, John Sankey - Keyboard MIDI accompaniment. Audio Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
Bridge Records - Barbara Westphal - Cello Suites Performed on Viola http://www.bridgerecords.com/ "German virtuoso Barbara Westphal's viola recording of Bach's 6 cello suites sheds new light on these great masterpieces. Westphal's viola playing features flawless intonation and gorgeous viola tone from her 1570 Da Salo instrument." Audio Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
Titanic Records - Peter Watchorn ( English Suites ) http://www.titanicrecords.com/Ti254.html Peter Watchorn has been active as a harpsichordist since 1974. ... In 1995 Peter Watchorn received a doctoral degree with his dissertation on the English Suites from Boston University. His career has taken him throughout Europe, the United States, and his native Australia. This recording is the first in a series that over the next few years will present the complete harpsichord works of J. S. Bach. Commercial Performers Personal Recordings Works |
ESS.A.Y Recordings Home Page http://www.essaycd.com/ ESS.A.Y is pleased to add a host of new releases to its catalog of treasures. Look through our web site and our catalog and let us know how you like the ESS.A.Y Recordings you listen to. Commercial Performers Recordings Works |
Abram Bezuijen - concert organist ( The Goldberg Variations for Organ ) http://home.sol.no/~bezuijen/ "Abram Bezuijen (1966) studied organ at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Arie J. Keijzer, and piano with Frans van Hoek. In 1990 he earned the diploma for Music Pedagogy and in 1991 that for Performing Musician (organ). ... Abram Bezuijen plays concerts in Norway, the Netherlands and Germany and has made various CD and radio recordings." Audio Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
Hänssler CLASSIC http://www.haenssler.de/classic/ The complete recording of the music by Johann Sebastian Bach on 170 CDs. A rare event in the history of records and recordings: hänssler CLASSIC is proud to present the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach which will be published on 170 CDs with recordings just by hänssler Classic. The EDITION BACHAKADEMIE is a joint venture of hänssler classic and the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. The EDITION BACHAKADEMIE will be completed by the Bach year 2000. Commercial Performers Recordings Works |
Erato Disques - Almost half a century of recording history http://www.erato.com/ "For almost half a century Erato has been faithfully and imaginatively serving its public both with music by neglected composers and the mainstream repertory. When the Company was founded in 1953 there was very little Renaissance and Baroque music to be found in the catalogues of the recently developed long-playing record. This was to be the area in which Erato was first to make its mark and which subsequently established its fine and enduring reputation. Nowadays, when music from so many centuries and different countries is accessible through the medium of the compact disc, it is easy to forget how different the situation was in those far-off days. One of the chief aims of the Erato pioneers founder Philippe Loury and A&R director Michel Garcin was to bring to life once more the early and Baroque music of their native France and to make it available to as wide an audience as possible." Commercial Performers Recordings Works |
Primary Logic - Bach by Two http://www.primarylogic.com/ "We've long known that music has some deeply moving properties. We are just beginning to learn how deeply moving music really is. We are beginning to learn that in the very young, music can reach into the web of thought itself and enhance higher brain function. We have selected 21 Beautiful logical little gems from Anna Magdalena's Notebooks I & II, written and compiled by the master himself in part for his own children's early exploration of the harmonic system he helped popularize, and recorded them twice. Once in an up-tempo fashion for active play and again as lullabies for quiet time. The benefits of such an arrangement we believe are obvious." Audio Commercial Educational Performers Recordings Works |
Cello Essays by Paul Scott http://home.earthlink.net/~unisons/ "Site supports Paul's CD 'ESSAYS'. Samples of pieces, including Cello Suite #1, Anna Magdelana manuscript, ethnomusicological point of view. Other pieces deconstruct the Suite, and are improvisations based on interacting world high art traditions. Notes on the pieces purchase info and short Bio included." Analysis Commercial Educational Performers Personal Recordings Works |
Boston Skyline Records http://www.bostonskylinerecords.com/ "Founded in 1991, our original goal: to issue wonderful music in the following categories: Classical, Jazz, Children's, Oldies, and World Music. In 1993 we initiated our From the Vault series of great re-issues. Our goals for this series are twofold: first, to make available fine albums of the 1950s, '60s and '70s that were both genuinely beloved and acclaimed as milestones. Second, to demonstrate the extraordinary sound quality captured on the best Masters of the period, quality which even the finest pressings could only partially convey." - Check out their re-releases of classic Bach recordings! Commercial Performers Recordings Works |
Lyrichord Discs - Early Music Wing http://www.lyrichord.com/early/ "... here is a recorded series that will present all the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach in virtuosic performances on the clavichord, using superb reproductions by Ronald Haas of period instruments. The player is Richard Troeger, noted clavichordist, harpsichordist, and fortepianist. Vol. 1 of the series, just released, is a 2-CD set ( priced as a single CD! ) presenting the 6 Partitas in their clavichord debut, revealing new clarity, brilliance, nuances, and colors. Richard Troeger is a keyboard master whose Bach interpretations are among the finest ever recorded." - Ordering information is available at the Lyrichord web site. Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
Channel Classics http://www.channelclassics.com/ A label that specializes in Classical recordings by such notable Bach performers as Anner Bylsma, Andrew Manze, Peter Wispelwey, and others. Many sound samples available online! Audio Commercial Performers Recordings Works |
Goldberg Variations Maniacs http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~pg6y-skt/goldberg/goldberg.html A site dedicated to Bach's Goldberg Variations. Includes a huge listing of Goldberg Variations recordings and links to other sources of information on Bach and the Goldberg Variations. Analysis Educational Links Performers Recordings Scores Works |
BACH 2000 - The Complete Works of Johann Sebastian Bach on TELDEC http://www.BACH2000.com/ TELDEC will be the first record company to release the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach in a uniformly packaged edition of roughly 150 CDs. BACH 2000 will be launched worldwide on 28 July 1999 and be available from the very beginning of celebrations to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer's death in 1750. Commercial Performers Recordings Works |
Tjako van Schie's Home Page / The Goldberg Variations http://users.castel.nl/~schic02/ Tjako van Schie is a talented pianist from the Netherlands. He has recorded a well-played and tastefully interpreted CD of the Goldberg Variations on the Piano which is currently available at http://www.cddiscovery.com. Audio Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
Scott Slapin - The Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin transcribed for Viola http://www.scottslapin.com/ 'The Stewart Society for the Recorded Sound is pleased to announce the release of J. S. Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Violin (BWV 1001-1006) and the Unaccompanied Partita for Flute (BWV 1013) performed on the viola by Scott Slapin. This two-disc set is the first complete recording of these works on the viola and undoubtedly a milestone in the history of the viola as a solo instrument.' Audio Commercial Educational Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
The Bach Cello Suites On Trumpet by David Cooper http://www.execpc.com/~bluemoun/jbach.html "I have also made every effort to maintain the integrity of the Bach Cello Suites when I recorded them on the trumpet. I have pursued a warmer, 'woodier' tone by recording fairly close-miked and with a softer, more relaxed volume. I also tried to model the trumpet sound after the cello with regard to articulation, phrasing, vibrato and ornamentation. " Also check out http://www.execpc.com/~bluemoun/jsbach.html at Blue Mounds Productions. Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings Scores Works |
Bach - The Fencing Master http://www.ponticello.com/bylsma/ The famous Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma has written the long expected book about the Bach Cello Suites. Now, it is published. Its title is "Bach, The Fencing Master or reading aloud from the first three cello suites". The books brings new life into the discussion about how to perform these suites. Whoever reads it gets really enthusiastic about it. Mr. Bylsma's knowledge, sense of humor and entirely new view on the suites are compelling. Analysis Audio Biography Commercial Educational Instruments Performers Recordings Scores Works |
Ernesto Tamayo Plays Bach http://Ernesto.Tamayo.com/ "It is always a joy to hear familiar Bach works transcribed for guitar. These works for violin and flute are familiar to all of us. But Ernesto gives us much more, he puts a lot of himself into his interpretation. He is both technically skilled and exceptionally expressive." - Jan Hanford - the J.S. Bach Home Page Audio Commercial Events Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
Linn Records http://www.linn.co.uk/lr/lr_main.html Featuring Nigel North's Bach on the Lute series of Solo Violin and Solo Cello transcriptions. - 'Linn Records represents some of the most prestigious artists in the music world. Our catalogue covers a wide repertoire, from early music through to rock 'n' roll. The superb performances captured on the Linn label have won worldwide critical acclaim for artistic merit and recording quality.' Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
Raven Compact Discs http://www.tneorg.com/raven/ New J. S. Bach - Only Recording of Unpublished Organ Works 'The first and only recording of 21 organ chorales very likely to be by J. S. Bach, including his only work for trumpet and organ, contained in the BWV since 1950 (and in Appendix II since 1990) yet to be published for the first time in late 1998 or early 1999 by Breitkopf in an edition by Stephen Rapp, the organist on this CD, and Douglas Myers, the Trumpeter. 1995 Richards, Fowkes & Co. organ, St. John's Lutheran Church, Stamford, Connecticut.' Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
Jozsef Eötvös - Bach's Goldberg Variations Played on the Guitar http://www.spinnst.co.at/Gitarre/Eoetvoes/index.html 'Joszef Eötvös may have produced one of the finest major transcription for the guitar of the second half of the century. His variations are well crafted for a solo guitar, and stands up well against the original Bach manuscript. One cannot help feeling that the result is another faithful work of art, something that would have left a smile on Bach's face!' - Michael Stitt - Bach Plucked Audio Biography Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
Well-Tempered Productions / Classical Music Online http://www.welltempered.com 'Classical Music Online is the premiere online resource dedicated exclusively to classical music.' Also the home of Club Lara! Audio Commercial Events Images Links Performers Recordings Works |
Michael J. Miles and the Magic Banjo - American Bach http://homepage.interaccess.com/~banjo/banjo.html 'Michael J. Miles was voted by Banjo Newsletter Readers as one of the "top ten clawhammer banjo players in America." ... His new recording American BACH, featuring Miles transcriptions for banjo of JS Bach's cello suites and his own composition, Suite for the Americas, was released in September, 1997.' Commercial Educational Events Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Scores Works |
Kevin Ferguson/Strad to Strat - Bach & Paganini on the Electric Guitar http://www.debone.com/strdstrt.html 'This is the latest CD by electric guitarist, Kevin Ferguson and has been in the Top Selling List of Locals Only Records since it was released.' Audio Commercial Instruments Links Performers Personal Recordings Scores Works |
Bach Plucked - Bach on the Lute & Guitar http://www.ozemail.com.au/~bachlogc/plucked.htm 'This site is devoted to the playing of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries including S L Weiss played on the lute and guitar.' Educational Instruments MIDI Personal Scores Works |
Dr Yo Tomita, School of Music, Queen's University http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~tomita/index.html This site features a wealth of information and resources related to Bach including a comprehensive Bach Bibliography, Source Studies of the Well-Tempered Clavier Book II and high quality MIDI files. This site also features the 'Bach' Musicological Font, a high quality font face with additional music symbols that blend seamlessly with the text. There is also information about Yo's publications including J. S. Bach's `Das Wohltemperierte Clavier II': A Critical Commentary, 3 vols. and many online essays. Analysis Bibliography Biography Commercial Educational Images Links MIDI Personal Recordings Scores Works |
Dave's J.S. Bach Page http://www.jsbach.net/ Original MIDI Files, Images, RealAudio Files, Recommended Recordings, a Bach Works Catalog, Links, and More Analysis Audio Images Links MIDI Performers Personal Recordings Scores Works J.S. Bach: The Cantatas http://www.let.rug.nl/Linguistics/diversen/bach/cantatas/ 'This is the modest beginning of an effort to present the German texts (with English translations and commentaries) of all Bach's more than 200 cantatas in an internet-accessible form.' Scores Works The Theme Fugue Contest - a Tribute to J.S. Bach http://users.castel.nl/~schic02/fuguecontest.htm Do you like to write music? Here is the big challenge for you! Your job is it to write a fugue on this theme: The idea is to let as many people as possible write a fugue on this theme in any way they like! In this way we want to establish a tribute to J.S. Bach and his marvellous "Die Kunst der Fuge". Analysis Educational Events Performers Personal Recordings Works A Johann Sebastian Bach Midi Page http://www.bachcentral.com/ Biography MIDI Personal Works BWV Bach MIDI http://members.xoom.com/bachmidi/bachmidi.html Probably the largest collection of Bach MIDI files on the web, this site is organized using the Bach BWV catalog. Educational MIDI Works Club JSB http://www.pennuto.com/music/jsb_ornm.htm 'Dedicated to the music of J.S. Bach and other great composers and performers' Includes: On J.S. Bach's Fantasy & Fugue, BWV 906, J.S. Bach's Ornament Table, A Tribute to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Glenn Gould and the Electronic Future Analysis Audio Bibliography Biography Educational Images MIDI Personal Scores Works The Canons and Fugues of J. S. Bach http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/bachindex.html Canons & Fugues contains a theory of canonic and fugal processes linked to examples of analyzed canons and fugues by J. S. Bach. Canons include those of the Goldberg Variations and Addendum, Musical Offering, Art of Fugue, Orgelbüchlein, Vom Himmel hoch, Clavier-Übung III, Honorific works and concludes with an essay "Why Did Bach Write Canons?" Fugues include the Art of Fugue, portions of the Well Tempered Clavier, and conclude with directions on how to Analyze a Fugue. The site also contains extensive biography and history including Bach's Education & Career, the Bach Family, the Baroque Ideal, Bach's Contemporaries, and an essay on the importance of Bach's work in contemporary art and criticism "Not Bach, but Meer." Analysis Bibliography Biography Educational Images Links Scores Works Bach: the Baroque, and Beyond http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/bbbindex.html 'Bach: the Baroque and Beyond" is a graduate seminar in music theory and analysis that Northern Arizona University is delivering via the World-Wide Web this fall. The course explores themes which emerge in the 18th century, reach heights of tonal complexity in the music of J. S. Bach, and have continued to inspire and inform composers into the 19th and 20th centuries. The purpose of the seminar is to illustrate how musical structure and style in the western classical tradition draw from a continuum of techniques composers have sought consciously to exploit. Many of these techniques originated in the baroque with pedagogies transmtting them to musicians of the last two centuries having consistently used Bach as model.' Analysis Bibliography Biography Educational Scores Works Teri Noel Towe's Johann Sebastian Bach Pages http://www.rainbowflag.com/homepage/teritowe/jsbindex.html Portraits, Places Familiar to Sebastian Bach, Pipe Organs Played by Sebastian Bach, Rebuilding the Frauenkirche in Dresden, Sebastian Bach's Handwriting, Some Early Printed Editions, Recommended Recordings Bibliography Images Instruments Links Personal Recordings Scores Works Johann Sebastian Bach - Frequently Asked Questions ( FAQ ) http://www.bachfaq.org/ 'This site endeavors to answer oft-asked and oft-heard questions about Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and his work, explain basic facts and concepts about his music, its forms, techniques, context, etc., shed light on common misunderstandings, and provide pointers to further information on and off the web. This FAQ is directed largely at those unfamiliar or only somewhat familiar with Bach and his work, whether otherwise knowledgeable about so-called "classical music" or not; it is not intended to be a comprehensive, encyclopaedic, or scholarly resource (although we provide pointers to more complete Bach resources).' Analysis Bibliography Biography Educational Links Newsgroups Recordings Works Simon Crouch's Home Page http://freespace.virginnet.co.uk/simon.crouch/FrontDoor.htm This is Simon Crouch's home page, mostly devoted to J. S. Bach. Links from here to my cantata pages and to my Bach Books page. Analysis Bibliography Educational Events Links Personal Works John Sankey - Harpsichordist to the Internet http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/ First-rate MIDI sequences of works by Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, and William Byrd. Analysis Instruments MIDI Performers Personal Works Charles Cave's J.S. Bach Home Page at Classical Net http://www.classical.net/music/composer/works/jsbach/jsbindex.html 'The primary aim of this web site is to offer the list of Bach's works in an hypertext format.' Biography Personal Recordings Works Acoustical illusions http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs083/akustik.html 'Besides the well-known optical illusions there are acoustic ones, too. Perhaps the most popular acoustics illusion is the effect that was discovered by Shepard: A scale that gives the listener the impression of an endlessly rising melody - but in fact the pitch of the tones does not rise. This way it is possible to play musical pieces that would otherwise cross the human perception threshold.' Analysis Audio MIDI Works Classical Music Pages - Bach http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/bachjs.html Bibliography Biography Works St. Matthew Passion http://www.cs.rug.nl/~lankhors/matth.html The full German text of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, one of the greatest pieces of music ever written ( IMHO ). Scores Works University Music Editions - Bach, Complete Works http://chelsea.ios.com/~johnp3/ume/bach.html The Bach-Gesellschaft Edition of the complete works of Bach on microfiche. Commercial Scores Works Lara St. John's Home Page http://www.larastjohn.com Home page of the lovely Lara St. John who recorded a remarkable CD of the 2nd Partita and 3rd Sonata for Solo Violin. A great site with audio clips. Audio Commercial Events Images Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works The Flying Inkpot - a 312th birthday tribute to Bach. http://inkpot.com/classical/bach1997.html Performers Recordings Works The Flying Inkpot - Koopman's Bach Complete Cantatas vol.4. http://inkpot.com/classical/bachcan4.html Performers Recordings Works The Flying Inkpot - recent reissue of Hogwood's 'original' Brandenburg concertos. http://inkpot.com/classical/bachbranaam.html Performers Recordings Works The Flying Inkpot - intro to harpsichord concertos, including the Pinnock set. http://inkpot.com/classical/bachhpdc.html Performers Recordings Works The Flying Inkpot - review of the Naxos CD of oboe concertos. http://inkpot.com/classical/bachoboe.html Performers Recordings Works The Flying Inkpot - a brief review of the Decca Eclipse CD of cantatas 80 & 140. http://inkpot.com/classical/bachdec.html Performers Recordings Works The Flying Inkpot - the newest: review of Daniil Shafran playing the 2nd-5th cello suites. http://inkpot.com/classical/bachvcshaf.html Performers Recordings Works Douglas Yeo FAQ: Bach Cello Suites http://www.yeodoug.com/bachsuites.html 'Sooner or later, every serious student of the trombone is going to work on the Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach. While being profound music, they present unique challenges to the trombonist. I use the Suites with students beginning in their sophomore year, and am often asked by students and teachers alike about why I use them and how to begin approaching them with a player.' Instruments Personal Recordings Works Musique & Musiciens ( Catalogue BWV ) http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/catal/bacjs/bacjs.html Catalogue (in French) of all vocal and instrumental works by J.S. Bach with alphabetical indexes. Bibliography Scores Works Texts of the Bach Cantatas http://uofapsy.psych.ualberta.ca/bach.html Texts of all Bach Cantatas (in German, Translations to come) Scores Works The Oboe and the Oboe D'amore in Bach's Church Cantatas http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/Journal/JNL6/bach.html THE OBOE AND THE OBOE D'AMORE IN BACH'S CHURCH CANTATAS: AN EXAMINATION OF BACH'S OBOISTS AS WELL AS RANGE AND NOTATIONAL PROBLEMS Analysis Bibliography Biography Educational Instruments Works Tradition and Individual Style in the Motets of J.S. Bach http://web.calstatela.edu/centers/Wagner/bach.htm 'The extant motets of Johann Sebastian Bach provide examples of Bach's distinctive composing techniques as he applied them to the traditional motet style of the Baroque period. The study is a comparison of Bach's motets to the traditional Lutheran motet style as it was known in the Baroque period and will highlight similarities as well as differences.' Analysis Bibliography Biography Educational Works Bach's Method of Transcription by Philip Hii http://www.delmar.edu/music/bachtran.html 'Among the huge corpus of works by J.S. Bach is a sizeable number of transcriptions. A rather neglected part of the Bach repertory, these transcriptions have only recently gained more respectability and interest among scholars and performers. Their impact on the area of performance practice and the study of Bach's compositional process is evident in a number of notable studies.' Analysis Educational Instruments Performers Works The World of the Bach Cantatas http://www.wwnorton.com:81/catalog/spring97/bach.htm 'An illuminating discussion of the musical, literary, aesthetic, and theological aspects of Bach's early cantatas.' Bibliography Commercial Works Xinh's JS Bach Index / J.S. Bach Mass in B Minor http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~xinh/jsbindex.html Writings on J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor including: Composition of the work, Organization of movements, Text of the Mass in B Minor, Balance in musical style, Symmetry in Credo, Closer look at individual movements . Analysis Bibliography Biography Educational Images Links Personal Scores Works ORPHEON - Consort http://www.orpheon.org/consort.htm Events Performers Works ORPHEON - Sonatas for viola da gamba and obligato harpsichord http://www.orpheon.org/bach.htm Instruments Works Classical Guitar and Lute http://www.guitarandlute.com/ 'Your source of links to Great Music and Information for Guitar and Lute' Educational Instruments Links MIDI Scores Works J.S. Bach Recordings Discussion List http://www.jsbach.org/discuss.html Recordings Works MUSIC OF INTELLECT the Goldberg Variations http://www.people.or.jp/~imyfujita/ Analysis Biography Educational Links MIDI Recordings Scores Works Zur theologischen Dimension in Bachs Kunst der Fuge http://home.t-online.de/home/WKleber/kf.htm ( in German ) Analysis Bibliography Educational Scores Works BachTempo http://www.bachtempo.com/ 'This website is intended for Bach scholars, tempo scholars, Bach tempo scholars, music theorists, music historians, performers, and anyone who may be interested in learning about two original theories of tempo developed by Cory Hall. "BachTempo" proves beyond a reasonable doubt the precise speeds of J.S. Bach's tempos and corroborates something musicians have pondered for a long time but have been unable to substantiate--the existence of "mathematically perfect" or "theoretically perfect" tempos.' Analysis Educational Works Bach to the Drawing Board http://www.geocities.com/~bandgrrrl/ Complete resource for Bach. Contains some pictures, MIDI's, biography, and other features. Biography Educational MIDI Personal Works |