If you don't know this one (Egg band meets Bach) : warm sound of early seventies

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Commenting without even having lent an ear ? What is your esteem for monumental composers worth then?

 

Also, Jethro Tull's "Bourrée" is a famous Bach-inspired piece of music :

 

In jazz, Jacques Loussier made some good renditions of Bach's music.

a raw heavy brutal and fast version of the long 11 minute bit Partita 2 - Ciaccona, riffs galore

lucas wrote: Jean-Marie, I quite like the tracks you posted. They are quite faithful to the spirit of Bach's music.

Thanks for Morse, Tull, Loussier suggestions. Nice to meet you ! 

Maybe you're meaning that similar tracks qualify for "faithfulness to the spirit" when they don't sound like an exercise.

Bach would hardly get the point in boosting the recordings of his works to rock'n'roll dynamics, even jazz, should he abruptly wake up now, would he? In that regard the original "spirit" is lost.

I'd also say that the joy of being touched by music refering to societies of a remote past has a taste of "spiritual" transcendance, which can be kept even when we pretend to "fit" that music to our likenings into extending the ways of rendition with current musical gear.

menawati wrote: a raw heavy brutal and fast version of the long 11 minute bit Partita 2 - Ciaccona, riffs galore

BWV 1004 you mean? If nobody has done it yet this one will probably tempt some melodic metal band sooner / later...

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Nice to meet you !...

What you've linked is Beethoven's Sonate 8 2nd mov

Symphony X did play Bach indeed :

Hehe...Doesn't Beethoven deserve a thread for himself ?

Actually I only like around 25 percent of all BWV's I've heard, and that's not saying he's anything else than an exceptionally gifted composer. But the recording of his works doesn't move me and shake my guts more than several rock bands around. So how do we care if he's a genius ?

 

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HA! Ha!

If we find one single person in the World who is fond of BWV 618 and doesn't show any symptom of bigotry, then I'll probably have to admit I'm wrong.

Interesting question to me.

But of course this thread's aim is beyond words, the share of some baroque (or earlier) works + rock gear, like the following...

Froberger ( please someone play the original piece at my funeral )

 

Forgotten Worlds (1989) (Alph-Lyra, Izuho Takeuchi)

 

 

Strider (1990) (Junko Tamitani)

 

 

 

Thank you ! 20-25 year-old v.g. worlds have kept/gained a charm on its own

This band seems to use a wide variety of styles, one of which let's say is baroque ! But I'd rather link this very piece to Schubert  lieds/ romanticism.

Unknown composer

Some sparse heavy gear on Gibbons (an early baroque composer isn't he )

Mix with MTron organ

Other mix with "plein jeu" organ + MTron sax

This synth track made me enjoy the piece very much, unlike the organ rendering(s) of it I'd previously listened to.

...So I say, thank you !! And also I say church organs aren't bound to rule at playing parts from the pre-industrial era.

Now did anybody long for some clashing / roaring devices on any of those renderings ? 

Here's my try with the added layers...

BWV 651 is told to be a favorite of Joseph Ratzinger...

...Now how about heavy rock gear on it (re-uploaded with some flaws fixed)

Wouldn't Joseph Emeritus bet on a quieter call ?

 

Is it ok if I add to this?

 

When it came out, I do not think it was that great ... and even my own father who already had over 3k LP's of classical music from the earliest to the latest, made the comment that it looked like something for a fair and fun a lot more than it was designed to be "classical" music. I agreed, actually, though my dad misinterpreted Tomita later because of it!

 

As represented in the Stanley Kubrick film, it made more sense, as it was used almost as a cartoon, and not a meaningful piece of music compared to the other pieces used in that film and his film before that.

 

I've never thought that it was serious music, but it helped bring classical music out a bit more to the "masses", while also making people better acquainted with the synthesizer and its sound ... and that helped, eventually, make the "progressive" new bands sound better and the sound more acceptable. Which consequently fueled what became known as "progressive" because of so much synth work ... and specially solos.

 

But the best mix for me, is pretty much around a lot of the folk music bands in England and its northern areas, where they mix anything with everything, and you get some nice mixes, and then one day you get Steeleye Span and feedback and you wonder if the sky fell off the mountain or something!

 

And of course, there is always Gryphon, whose music was used in a National Theater production and helped it gain fame for the band and the production itself! But then, the National Theater needed no introduction and has a history of ... gads ... I have to look, but it's more than 75, and might even be 100 years!

Buxtehude weaving, embroidering on a very well known "cantus firmus"

There are quite a few more "groovy" BWV's waiting for their rock gear treatment, but not all the BWV used in the film industry, isn't it ?

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Jelonek  "barock" efforts

"Switched on Bach" is not as expressive as hearing an orchestral Brandenburg Concerto or J Powers Biggs blasting through the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, but I think it's still cool for a couple of reasons.  First it introduced the music of JSB to many people who otherwise would never have heard it in their ordinary listening.  Second, it came at a time when the Moog had been only used for sound effects or novelty records...as such, it proved the theory that this new invention was capable of producing "serious" music.  I liken that to Frank Zappa's "Francesco Zappa" album where his synclavier is used for a similar "proof of concept".

Same cantus firmus as BWVs 663 & 664, all among my BWV favs !

...No rock band gear ( why not get back to it later ), but If you should discover a non baroque treatment of BWV 671, I'd vote for that one...

"rock band" mix I enjoy nevertheless

Back to an old mix, where it's not  all MIDI, only MIDI dr and a bass line added on an audio track.

I only liked the 2 first minutes of BWV 678 until I heard this rendering:

By 21 the player was granted "summa cum laude" virtuosity on 2 instruments...What's dour for many must be a leisure for him !! I can't really enjoy much of other videos from him but am impressed at his amazing improvising abilities. Check his channel...

BWV 678 + rock gear here:

Other remixes from previous posts: A slightly abridged BWV 676 and Gibbons In Nomine 2 with "plein jeu" organ

So it's the only thing you find it worth typing about this whole thread ?

A http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=99333&PN=1" rel="nofollow - similar thread was created those days. Wonders inside !!

And now ?... BWV 664

Also four new remixes in edited posts above: BWV 611, 635, 676, 678

Because the fugal style didn't really fit the pop/rock make-up despite the exciting pace and "groove", this is an entwined BWV 618.

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Lately found  http://www.jwpepper.com/10457549.item#.VLgkEiuG9-V" rel="nofollow - this  on the net

...and 

And a pile of others: I just typed "Bach rock", key words I hadn't previously entered in my searches (I had typed "barque'n'roll" or "barock'n'roll" without thinking of simply typing "Bach rock" !!)

Audience (sparse voices, shouting in different ways): Fischer's F Chaconne !

Band's spokesperson: ...Fischer's F Chaconne.

 

Indeed, but I would say very far from as expressive as hearing an orchestral Brandenburg Concerto. Personally Wendy Carlos' didn't impress me, not even his other works. For this sort of music, I prefer pretty more Pell Mell's few works, even admiting that Wendy Carlos is hell of a virtuoso.

 

By the way that some electronic instruments are being concerned, once I read something very cleverly pointed out by Gerinski in an old thread: "It's not that difficult to sound spectacular with a powerful synth, but playing classical piano can not be pretended, either you can or you can not." This statement is unfairly bypassed nowadays.

 

 

 

I'm gradually finding out how interesting and intriguing is the way Jazz music (and even more its derivations) is managing to keep itself much more alive in Internet music forums if compared to the Classical Music fate (except post-war composers, I guess.) Well, saying quite hipothetically, if the latter didn't exist then perhaps I would have had better chances to be a Jazz "nut", I don't know really, maybe the available time today isn't enough for me to get more into it. My only issue with the Jazz that I sometimes listened to so far is maybe that I just find in this music the overall virtuosity mostly in service of its beauty of texture and the improvisation as well - I'm not criticizing it at all frankly, no doubt that its atmosphere in general is capable of evoking a more strongly seductive appeal, and often expressing a great sensual appeal too, but OK this is mostly what I personally felt about jazz, in a very subjective way really.

 

I know very few of Jazz, so I would like to know if it is easy to find other Jazz music with other moods. To be more clear, I mean in Classical Music for example it is pretty common to find fluctuations between let's say "deep melancholy" (or any whatever more inward-looking mood) combined with a very manic kind of energy, like wanting to conquer the world, to say the least. Literally speaking, it’s not just a shift from one movement to the next, it’s often within the same musical gesture, or motif, or phrase.

 

I really would like to find for example a Jazz composer that could express something that’s very different from his own life at the time – I often feel that when Mozart’s music is at its purest it was often when his life was at its messiest (just my own feelings anyway.) But just what most profoundly strikes me of his music is when I feel from it an extremely deep and painful expression of longing, something very common in Chopin's too for instance, but in the case of the former is where I feel the REAL Mozart "speaking" to me.