Music Nerding

OK – so I’m a little obsessed with her:

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.