J S Bach

Certif1ed wrote: Except, maybe, Chopin or Liszt?

Chopin and especially Liszt give you a lot to do, but still the left hand is mostly accompaniment (apart from double handed runs over the keyboard). But Bach treats both hands equally; that's what I meant to say in my post. With Bach you have to play different voices with the left hand too. Bach sounds easy to play compared to Liszt, but because of this characteristic Bach is difficult as hell. No wonder Glenn Gould loved Bach so much.

Classical violinist Hilary Hahn once said: "Nobody ever says: 'God, I hate Bach!' He was the fundament for everything that followed." I have nothing to add to that, except that I play his preludes and fugues too, and I never get tired of them (only my left hand does because Bach surely gives you a lot to do there, more than any other composer)

I've listened to novackeck small study pieces...great!!! an excellent exemple of cool, emotional & technical violin solo (just as Paganini caprices)

lucas wrote: philippe wrote: Bach written ones of the most boring pieces in Classical music...I've played almost all his preludes and fugues from the well tempered clavier...now I get tired of it!! Maybe it is boring but it will surely better stand the test of time than most of the krautrock/electronic and other weird musics.

It's too early to confirm that...but I let you the opportunity to think so! You should say Prog music in general won't pass the test of time...Symphonic and art rock is by far more dated than krautrock

He was the master in hs style.

Even his kids realize that, spenting their musical lives searching in other directions. They were smart and thought that they could never beat the old guy.

philippe wrote: Bach written ones of the most boring pieces in Classical music...I've played almost all his preludes and fugues from the well tempered clavier...now I get tired of it!!

Maybe it is boring but it will surely better stand the test of time than most of the krautrock/electronic and other weird musics.

Joren wrote: gentstan wrote: Personally, I like to think that many classical composers would be prog rockers if they were alive today. I think it would be more likely that they would be composing modern classical music, which is also very challenging...

I believe Classic, Baroque and even Romantic composers would be creating modern Classical music, Bach is an exception, I also believe he would be making prog, a genre where his magnifiscent organ would really shine.

But I'm almost sure that most if not all late Romantic/Early Modern Russian composers like Cui, Borodin, Rimsky Korsakov, Mussorgski, etc, would be making Progressive Rock.

Mostly because the last ones broke with all the European Clasical composers to make their own music, so my opinion is thatthey would be working with something more experimental like Prog. They were the real predecessors of Prog' because they mixed some classical influences with folkloric Russian music, one of the first examples of real experimentation.

Iván

Marcelo wrote:    Yes!!! And Dick Heath wrote about Walter/Wendy Carlos: Remember the "Switched-On Bach" I & II covers.

Check this out:

http://www.wendycarlos.com/discs.html