Netherlands Bach Society
April 1, 2025 5:24 AM Subscribe
This beautiful filming of a performance of Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 would be worth watching even with the sound off. But it also features superlative playing by Lucia Swarts of the Netherlands Bach Society.
The Dutch Bach-ery continues with this performance of Invention No. 13 in A minor, BWV 784 by the 9 year old Anna Kuvshinov, who's so adorable I could plotz.
The Dutch Bach-ery continues with this performance of Invention No. 13 in A minor, BWV 784 by the 9 year old Anna Kuvshinov, who's so adorable I could plotz.
Nice find!
By the way, on the cello suite page is a link to the full set of 6 suites. Different artists, instruments, and venues.
#6 may be of particular interest: the instrument is a "violoncello da spalla", which looks like the world's chonkiest viola but still sounds like a cello. And the performance took place in... a municipal water supply tank?
posted by SorryNotSaurian at 6:30 AM on April 1 [1 favorite]
By the way, on the cello suite page is a link to the full set of 6 suites. Different artists, instruments, and venues.
#6 may be of particular interest: the instrument is a "violoncello da spalla", which looks like the world's chonkiest viola but still sounds like a cello. And the performance took place in... a municipal water supply tank?
posted by SorryNotSaurian at 6:30 AM on April 1 [1 favorite]
Wonderful - thank you so much. Brings tears to my eyes!
posted by nostrada at 6:37 AM on April 1 [1 favorite]
posted by nostrada at 6:37 AM on April 1 [1 favorite]
The Netherlands Bach Society is one of the best channels on YouTube. They have been uploading HQ videos of their performances as part of their "All of Bach" project, as they work through the entire Bach corpus.
From their YouTube channel:
All of Bach is the online video platform of the Netherlands Bach Society. In 2014, we started this project with the aim to perform and record all of Bach's works and share them online with the world for free. Music lovers worldwide can enjoy recordings of large-scale concerts, intimate house concerts and virtuoso solo works, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and its guest musicians.
Some highlights for me include:
The Art of Fugue with various combinations of voice and instruments, to make it a little less monotonous;
the glorious chorale partita, Sei gegrusset Jesu gutig;
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, one of Bach's most joyous cantatas;
and
the Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, my personal preference for Bach's greatest solo organ work.
Bach's music is one of the greatest creative achievements of a single human being, a massive contribution to the artistic legacy of humanity. For the NBS to offer this up for the enjoyment of the world for free is one of the best uses of the internet.
posted by fortitude25 at 7:05 AM on April 1 [5 favorites]
From their YouTube channel:
All of Bach is the online video platform of the Netherlands Bach Society. In 2014, we started this project with the aim to perform and record all of Bach's works and share them online with the world for free. Music lovers worldwide can enjoy recordings of large-scale concerts, intimate house concerts and virtuoso solo works, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and its guest musicians.
Some highlights for me include:
The Art of Fugue with various combinations of voice and instruments, to make it a little less monotonous;
the glorious chorale partita, Sei gegrusset Jesu gutig;
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, one of Bach's most joyous cantatas;
and
the Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, my personal preference for Bach's greatest solo organ work.
Bach's music is one of the greatest creative achievements of a single human being, a massive contribution to the artistic legacy of humanity. For the NBS to offer this up for the enjoyment of the world for free is one of the best uses of the internet.
posted by fortitude25 at 7:05 AM on April 1 [5 favorites]
Very nice!!
posted by BlueHorse at 8:54 AM on April 1 [1 favorite]
posted by BlueHorse at 8:54 AM on April 1 [1 favorite]
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At nine, I could just about bash out chopsticks. Amazing.
posted by whatevernot at 5:33 AM on April 1 [1 favorite]