Archive for March, 2011
Friday, March 4th, 2011
A talk on the Goldberg Variations
The following is a short talk I gave on the Goldberg Variations of J.S. Bach at the University of York in February of 2011; many flights of fancy aside, it’s worth sharing, I think: — The Goldberg Variations: A Few Remarks. ”Count Kayserling, formerly Russian Ambassador at the Court of the Elector of Saxony, who […]
Friday, March 4th, 2011
Quadro Melante: a programme of Bach, Telemann, and Rameau
If any musician can be said to have been the ‘French Bach,’ it would be Jean-Phillippe Rameau. Just as Sebastian Bach stayed true to the already outmoded models of his early training, Rameau, who spent the first fifty years of his life as a theorist and obscure provincial organist, stayed true to the traditions of […]