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J.S. Bach's Instrumental Works |
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Music for Keyboard |
J.S. Bach: Some Thoughts on the Performance of Bach's Keyboard Music |
The writer tells us why one should feel no guilt in playing Bach on the piano |
Albert Alan Owen |
Meine Annäherung an Bach |
Besprechung der Klavierzyklen. Kurze Auszüge aus dem unterhaltsamen Fachbuch von Michael Heise - nicht nur für Pianisten [German] |
Michael Heisse |
Sweet on Bach - Bach Clavier Concert |
[English/Japanese] |
Sweetpea |
Welcome to www.Bach-JS.net |
If you really love Bach's harpsichord compositions, you won't miss a visit at my website. I personally transcribed into MIDI a lot of sonatas. The website includes: Introduction, How To Play Bach's Music, What Means Being A Virtual Musician, Outstanding And Rare Music Files, The Listener's Impressions |
Bruno de Giusti |
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French Suites BWV 812-817 |
J. S. Bach's 'French' Suites |
Download the French Suites in Midi format |
S. D. Rodrian |
J.S. Bach interpretada pur el pianista argentino Gregorio Szames |
French Suites in mpe format |
Gregorio Szames |
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Goldberg Variations BWV 988 |
a+30+a'Goldberg Variations |
This is a huge discography of every conceivable performance of this mighty work. Includes images of the disc covers as well as short reviews. Also has information about the many scores of this work which have been published |
Yoshiro Shikata / Pooh |
Music of Intellect – The Goldberg Variations |
In depth commentaries of The Goldberg Variations and on The Well Tempered Clavier Book 1. This is a site for the technically minded. Has some nice quotes and interesting piano graphics. There are also Midi files |
Imy Fujita |
The Goldberg Variations |
Contains analyses of this work from Tovey, Angela Hewitt, Yo tomita etc. Also contains an essay entitled 'In Search of Bach's Harpsichord' |
Vance Makin |
"Goldberg Variations" by J. S. Bach |
Glenn Gould's notes to his 1956 recording of the Goldberg Variations [in Richard Geib's Universe] |
Glenn Gould |
Goldberg Variations - J. S. Bach - 32 Pianists |
Read about the Goldberg Variations' performance where each variation was played by a different pianist |
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J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations for Classical Guitar |
J.S. Bach's Acclaimed Goldberg Variations arranged for Classical Guitar by Lynn Harting-Ware. MP3 audio samples and information on the score and CD Forest Scenes containing her arrangemsnts |
Lynn Harting-Ware |
Glenn Gould's notes on the Goldberg Variations, 1955 |
In National Library of Canada Website |
Glenn Gould |
Some thoughts on the Goldberg Variations |
In Sony Music Website |
Murray Perahia |
Canons of the Goldberg Variations |
Analysis of the Goldberg Canons |
Timothy A. Smith |
The symmetrical binary principal |
In Bach, Baroque & Beyond |
Timothy A. Smith |
Facsimile edition of the Goldberg Variations |
On-line Book Review - Bach’s Clavier-Übungen
in facsimiles |
Yo Tomita |
Bach: Goldberg Variations |
Essay, including reviews of some recordings |
Jeremy Epstein |
GV by Abram Bezuijen |
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Abram Bezuijen |
GV by Audun Kayser |
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Audun Kayser |
GV by Jory Vinikour |
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Jory Vinikour |
GV by József Eötvös |
On Guitar |
József Eötvös |
GV by Kurt Rodarmer |
On Guitar (including audio samples) |
Kurt Rodarmer |
GV by Lynn Harting-Ware |
On Guitar |
Lynn Harting-Ware |
GV by Tjako van Schie |
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Tjako van Schie |
Goldberg Variations for keyboard, BWV 988 |
In All Classical (AMG)
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John Keillor |
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Well-Tempered Clavier BWV 846-893 |
J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (MIDI Files) |
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S.D. Rodian |
Debby Lyttle's Home Page |
A couple of short essays on the Well Tempered Clavier and Brandenburg Concertos |
Debby Lyttle |
Johann Sebastian Bach: the Well Tempered Tuning is Unequal |
Technical essay, which instructs the reader about the correct harpsichord tuning for the Well Tempered Klavier |
Dr. Herbert A. Kellner |
The Variations Project |
The full score of the Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 |
Indiana University School of Music |
Bach, Well-tempered Clavier Bk 1, Part 1 |
Preludes and Fugues 1-13 from Book 1 of Bach's Well-tempered Clavier. MP3.com |
John L. Grant |
Bach, Well-tempered Clavier, Bk 1, Part 2 |
Preludes and fugues 14-24 from Book 1 of Bach's Well-tempered Clavier. MP3.com |
John L. Grant |
The Well Tempered Clavier BWV 846-869 |
[Bach 101 Website] |
Dr. Carol Traupman-Carr |
Music of Sacred Temperament |
A Method for The Well-Tempered Clavier by J. S. Bach 2001 – A fiction |
Imy Fujita |
The Well Tempered Clavier |
A Comment for The Well-Tempered Clavier - by Count Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk in 1744 |
Iori Fujita |
Well-Tempered Clavier: analysis, scores, and digital sound |
Interactive analyses of Bach fugues with complete scores synchronized with digital sound and hyperlinked commentary. |
Tim Smith & and David Korevaar |
J.S. Bach's Well-tempered Clavier |
This website intends to provide input in developing practically applicable concepts to improve the understanding and interpretation of JS Bach's Well-tempered Clavier, whether one uses the piano, the harpsichord, organ, electronic keyboard, or any other instrument. |
Philip Goeth |
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Brandenburg Concertos BWV 1046-1051 |
The Brandenburg Concertos. |
Essay shows the allegorical meanings contained in the these concertos |
Phillip Pickett |
Milestones of the Millenium: Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos" |
National Public Radio (NPR) broadcast offering an exploration of the Concertos |
Lisa Simone |
The Novelty of J.S. Bach's Orchestration in the Six Brandenburg Concerti |
Short essay |
Alex Lu |
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046 |
In Bach 101 Website |
Dr. Carol Traupman-Carr |
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 |
In Bach 101 Website |
Dr. Carol Traupman-Carr |
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 |
In Bach 101 Website |
Dr. Carol Traupman-Carr |
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Other Orchestral Works |
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor |
In Bach 101 Website |
Dr. Carol Traupman-Carr |
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major [N/A] |
In Bach 101 Website |
Dr. Carol Traupman-Carr |
Another Doppel?:Bach's Violin Concertos |
Contains Midis of Bach's Violin Concerto's |
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Aria de Jean-Sébastien Bach |
An analysis of the Air from Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068. Includes musical notation and MIDI files [French] |
Didier Lonca |
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Music for Strings |
Bach Plucked ! |
The Primary Resource of the Musik of Johann Sebastian Bach played on Baroque lute and Classical Guitar on the Net |
Micael Stitt |
Extraordinary Solo Cello Performance of Bach's Suites in Australia |
Review of a concert of the Cello Suites given by Peter Wispelway (in WSWS Website) |
Adrian Falk |
Interpretational Angst and the Bach Cello Suites.
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The writer calls for a hybrid approach(somewhere between 'authenticity' and Casals etc.in performing the Suites |
Tim Janoff |
Music Essay: Analyses of Bach's Allemande |
Analysis of the allemande of Bach's English Suite No. 3 in D Minor |
Ioannides Nikolaos |
Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin |
RealAudio files (one minute excerpts) of each piece in all six suites |
Juan Carlos Garelli |
Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Cello |
RealAudio files (one minute excerpts) of each piece in all six suites |
Juan Carlos Garelli |
Bach for Guitar |
Guitar transcriptions of many J.S. Bach’s works |
Alan Melvin |
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Music for Organ |
James Kibbie - International Concert and Recording Artist |
Site featuring James Kibbie, Professor of Organ, The University of Michigan. Contains useful programme notes for 18 of Kibbie's Bach organ recitals |
Various |
OrganFocus.com Feature: J.S. Bach and the Organ - Some Neglected Threads |
Lecture concentrates on the elusive search for the 'right organs' to play Bach's music on. This site also contains a comprehensive world-wide listing of forthcoming Bach organ events |
Stephen Bicknell |
Organ Works from Johann Sebastian Bach |
Excellent recordings of the Marbella Organ in Spain |
Patty Baumer |
BACHorgan |
A website dedicated to building a community of people who love the pipe organ music of J.S. Bach |
Dan Long |
Neumeister Collection of Chorale Preludes of the Bach Circle |
An Examination of the Chorale Preludes of J.S. Bach and Their Usage as Service Music and Pedagogical Works [Louisiana State University] |
Sara Ann Jones |
Trancriptions for Organ of Works by J.S. Bach |
Download organ transcriptions of works by J. S. Bach; about this project; short descriptions of the works |
Peter Baekgaard |
Recordings of Bach Organ Works |
Comments on Recordings of Bach Organ Works |
Joel Warren Lidz |
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Die Kunst der Fuge / The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 |
The Art of Fugue |
A long essay, including: Did Bach intend Art of Fugue to be his "last will and testament"? Did Bach really leave Art of Fugue unfinished? Did Bach intend Art of Fugue to be performed? Is Art of Fugue a keyboard work? Resources: Discography, Web Sites, and Further Reading |
Pipe Dreams |
The Canons and Fugues of J.S. Bach |
An in-depth analysis of Bach's canons and fugues, including an extended section on the Art of Fugue |
Timothy A. Smith |
Introduction to the Art of Fugue |
An essay, including: Significance; Compositional History; Large Scale Form of the Cycle; The Subject and its Transformations |
Timothy A. Smith |
Die Kunst der Fuge |
Bachinterpretation, Instrumentation, Aufführungspraxis, mp3-Hörbeispiele [German] |
Bernd Müller-Bohn |
Die Kunst der Fuge (Art of the Fugue), BWV 1080 |
In All Classical (AMG) |
John Keillor |
Art of Fugue |
In J.S. Bach Midi Page [Bach Central] |
Hylke Tromp |
AOF by Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet |
Review of the recording [The Flying Inkpot] |
Johann D'Souza |
AOF by Colm Carey |
Played on Organ |
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The Art of Fugue - Elizabeth Harington |
These folded prints are a complex evolving platform like a stage to experience the changes of a single musical theme |
Elizabeth Harington |
Bach's Art of Fugue, performed by Phantasm |
Review of the recording |
Bernard D. Sherman |
J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue: An Enigma Resolved |
Essay |
F. David Peat |
J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 |
Background and review of some key recordings |
Bibefran.com |
Dave's JS Bach Page - MIDI Files - The Art of Fugue |
MIDI files |
David J. Grossman |
AOF by Delmé Quartet |
Arranged by Robert Simpson [Hyperion] |
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Kunst der Fugue |
This site is intended as a point of reference for all those who love the high musical and artistic form of the Fugue. In future we will add many more dates, columns, analyses, examples and also themes of fugues … apart from MIDI files and – maybe later on – also real sound files |
Alessandro G. Simonetto |
Die Kunst der Fuge - how small a thought it takes to fill a whole life |
A brand new page which is completely dedicated to Die Kunst der Fuge. Its main content will be many many reviews (or rather descriptions) of records from my collection, and several essays, pictures, links and anything that is interesting enough |
Thomas Radleff & Melita Ivkovic |
12 Teppiche aus Bäumen für Johann Sebastian Bach |
nach der Komposition "Kunst der Fuge" von J. S. Bach |
Willi & Inga Schnekenburger |
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Transcriptions for Orchestra |
Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter |
Features audio of Stokowski talking about his Bach transcriptions |
Marjorie Hassen |
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Prepared by Aryeh Oron (March 2002 - September 2011) |