--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@...> wrote: > > Thank you Judy. I loved it...it plays like a conversation. > And I will certainly listen to it several more times. There > is little I like more on a Sunday morning than classical.
No two violinists play the Chaconne the same way. It's an intensely personal piece. Try some of the other versions on YouTube when you listen to it again. I'm one of those people who likes to have continuous background music for whatever I'm doing. There's a neat Web radio site that has a station called Otto's Baroque Musick, which I have on almost all the time. Given that there isn't an unlimited amount of Baroque music on record, pieces get repeated on a fairly regular basis. I'd heard the Chaconne in the background a number of times before it really caught my attention. I went, WHOA!, stopped my work, and actually listened to the piece. Now whenever it comes on, I *have* to stop what I'm doing and just listen to it all the way through. It never fails to move me, in different ways depending on who's playing it and where my head is at at the time. FWIW, Bach is said to have written it after returning home from a lengthy absence and discovering that his beloved wife had died while he was away. You can certainly hear grief and anguish in the piece, but those are far from the only qualities to be discovered in it. > > > ________________________________ > From: authfriend <jstein@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 9:22 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: One More Follow Up > > > Â > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks Barry, that's what happens when I don't see something > > > until 5 years after it occurred. > > > > On the other hand, there are folks on FFL now who weren't > > there for the previous discussion. > > > > I have a number of beefs with the whole experiment. One > > of them is the choice of instrument and music. It's almost > > as if the choices were made to ensure that as few people > > as possible would be arrested by the music as they hurried > > to work. The Bach Chaconne in particular is not a piece > > that most people would instantly recognize as "beautiful" > > unless they had had considerable exposure to classical > > music. I have had such exposure, and Bach is my favorite > > composer, but I didn't begin to appreciate the Chaconne > > until I'd heard it four or five times. > > Here's the complete Chaconne played by Gidon Kremer, if > anybody's interested: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJPVnJ8m-Y >
