OK – so I’m a little obsessed with her:
Music Nerding
The woman in the Hyundai Christmas ads covers Beyonce’s Single Ladies. Me like:
I heard him play this Bach Sarabande at Lincoln Center in 2004, also as an encore. I wept.
For some reason this was in my head all day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVil_NUviG8
Nelson Riddle, Frank Sinatra – what’s not to like?
Can I make it any clearer?
They also do How Mountain Girls Can Love – best bluegrass song ever.
Bach had a lot of mouths to feed – twenty children or so? He wrote this concerto (probably by the light of burning Vivaldi manuscripts – he emulated a lot of earlier composers) as a violin concerto first, if memory serves, then transposed it down a key to D major and sold it off as a keyboard concerto. This is the first movement, could not find a video of Gould doing the third movement, my favorite.
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