Saturday, June 30, 2012

Bach - Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV 1011 - IV. Sarabande 

Performed by Yo-Yo Ma

Bach - Cello Suite in C minor, BWV 1011 - II. Allemande 

Performed by Yo-Yo Ma

Sunday, May 13, 2012
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted… to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home. Edvard Grieg
Sunday, April 8, 2012

Bach - Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F minor - III. Presto

Bach - Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F minor - II. Largo

Saturday, April 7, 2012
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. Bach

Bach - Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F minor - I. Allegro moderato

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Chris Thile performs Bach Prelude in E major. He is so talented and passionate about music! Thile is best known as the mandolinist and a singer for the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek. His current band is Punch Brothers whose most recent album is Who’s Feeling Young Now?. Thile’s most recent albums outside Punch Brothers are a duet recording with guitarist Michael Daves called Sleep With One Eye Open and The Goat Rodeo Sessions, a collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Stuart Duncan. He has also recorded five albums as a solo artist, debuting with Leading Off in 1994. Chris Thile has collaborated with many artists such as Mike Marshall, Béla Fleck, Mark O’Connor, Aoife O’Donovan, Glen Phillips, Edgar Meyer, and Yo-Yo Ma.

“It just absolutely slams you in the heart or gut or whatever it is. Bach has that sort of immediacy. It’s music that fires on all cylinders. He represents this sort of standard of perfection.” - Chris Thile

Bach - Toccata in G major, BWV 916

Performed by Fritz Steinegger

Monday, April 2, 2012
Johann Ambrosius Bach, Bach’s father

Johann Ambrosius Bach, Bach’s father

Bach - Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV 1004 - I. Allemanda

Performed by Nathan Milstein

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Bach - Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068

Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Serge Koussevitzky

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? Michael Torke
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. Helmut Walcha
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his music. Others applied pepper, seasoned the dishes more and more highly, till all healthy appetites were sick and until the music was nothing but pepper. Sergei Prokofiev