Wasn't it actually written by his son for keyboard? RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Tayler" <[email protected]>
To: "lute" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:50 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed
All the gambists I know live on it and think Forqueray 5th suite is way harder. --- On Mon, 4/30/12, Roman Turovsky <[email protected]> wrote: From: Roman Turovsky <[email protected]> Subject: Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed To: "David van Ooijen" <[email protected]>, "lute net" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, April 30, 2012, 11:51 AM All the gambists I know (a goodly #) dread playing that aria. RT ----- Original Message ----- From: "David van Ooijen" <[1][email protected]> To: "lute net" <[2][email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 2:46 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed > On 30 April 2012 20:34, Roman Turovsky <[3][email protected]> wrote: >> JSB didn't play gamba either as evidenced by his reassignment of nicely >> playable lute part in the MatthaeusPassion to an impossible one for gamba >> in >> the 2nd version. >> Any gambist would tell you that that "gamba" part is pure hell. > > > Another blanket statement I beg to differ with, as my gamba friend are > generally happy with the Suesses Kreuz aria and find it to work well > on their instruments, however much I try to persuade them to give it > back to me. ;-) But then again, some of these gambis must have played > the piece hundreds of times over the years. It's remarkable, btw, how > much the character of the aria changes when the obligato part is > played on a lute. Easier, lighter, 'Suesser' as opposed to heavy, hard > and 'Kreuzig'. I keep telling conductors, but playing Bach passions is > another of those established habits enshrined in today's Early Music > Esperanto. > > David - back to St. John > > > -- > ******************************* > David van Ooijen > [4][email protected] > www.davidvanooijen.nl > ******************************* > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. file://localhost/mc/compose?to%c3%[email protected] 2. file://localhost/mc/[email protected] 3. file://localhost/mc/[email protected] 4. file://localhost/mc/compose?to%c3%[email protected] 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
