Posted by gobbledygook on July 11, 2009, at 20:57:39
In reply to Re: My family doesn't want me on meds » gobbledygook, posted by Sigismund on July 10, 2009, at 22:46:19
> You never get sick of Bach, do you?
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> As I recall (maybe wrongly) that second movement is a fugue, but if so I have failed to grasp how it works, which is not surprising as fugues are kinda difficult.
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> In my car I have a version of the B minor Mass with a really politically incorrect version by Otto Klemperer (brother of Werner who played Colonel Klink in Hogan's Heroes, and a sufferer of bipolar illness) so big, so slow and massively articulated. Et Expecto is really moving and the Sanctus makes my hair stand on end, like being taken onto another planet. Et expecto (And I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come, and you think of all the people and all the terror of death forever, and you think O you poor bastards).
**************************************************************************************************************************************************Hi Sigismund,
No, I could never get sick of Bach. Brilliant, honest, and humorous at times. I'm left elated and inspired with every listen.
Imagine having dinner and wine with someone like Bach...like chocolate for the mind (if chocolate is your cup of tea).The structure of the Double Violin Concerto in D minor is based on the fugue, and is a masterpiece. The dialogue between
the two violins in the second movement is expressive and moving...always leaving me in tears in the end.Dissssmissed!! I had no idea the bumbling and moronic Colonel Klink was the son of Otto Klemperer (and bipolar?)...makes
sense now as I recall that he was an accomplished musician/singer. He played the incompetent fool well in Hogan's Heroes.
Remember Schultz? I hear nothing, I know nothing, I see nothing, nothing! Very funny.Having read your "hair standing on end" thumbs up review, I will have to get Klemperer's interpretation of the B minor Mass.
I would very much like to be taken onto another planet as I'm in dire need of it. Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum...and
I will be full of joy and glory when they come. Curiously, B Mass brings Black Mass to my mind which then brings Stillman and
Pfaff to my mind, which then brings Dostoyevsky Ch17pg197 and Ch19pg230 to my mind. My mind works in chains.
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.Ava
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