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About the Cadenza Cadenzas are nowadays always played at the end of each movement of concertos for various instruments, as we […]
Purcell: Song and Dance / Tim Mead, The Musicians of Saint-Julien François Lazarevich and the musicians of Saint-Julien, join […]
Bach: Cantata No. 126 “Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This cantata is based on Martin […]
About Bach’s Chorales The number of harmonies that can be added to a given melody is virtually infinite. The same melod […]
“Simply Baroque” / Yo-Yo Ma, Ton Koopman A meaningful title. In 1998, Yo-Yo Ma recorded the two-disc series ̶ […]
About Bach’s Canon When you hear the word “canon,” what comes to mind? Probably 90% of people think of R […]
About Fugue of “The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1” No.8 The other day, I received a very unique post in the Faceb […]
About “Goldberg Variations” I have written disc reviews of various performers of the Goldberg Variations, the mas […]
Bach: English Suites / Gustav Leonhardt and others If you connect the tonic notes of the six pieces in the suite, you get the […]
Bach: St. John Passion / Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, others ① Concentus Musicus Wien (Nikolaus Harnoncourt) […]
Bach: Cantata No. 82 “Ich habe genug” / Ricercar Consort This spring, I finished writing a review of Telefunken&# […]
Bach: Mass in B minor / Gustav Leonhardt, La Petite Bande, etc. The performance forms of this piece can be roughly divided in […]
About Bach’s strict fugue When you think of Bach, you think of fugue, and when you think of fugue, you think of Bach. F […]
Giustini: 12 Sonatas / Kikuko Ogura (fortepiano) Lodovico Giustini was born in 1685, which means he was of the same generatio […]
Movies, “I Girasoli(Sunflower)” and “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg(The Umbrellas of Cherbourg）” Once up […]
Movie “Stalingrad” The film opens with the victorious troops on the African front on vacation in Italy. One day, […]
TV drama “The Wannsee Conference” On January 20, 1942, a villa on the shores of Lake Wannsee in the suburbs of Be […]
Movie “Archive” This movie makes you want to watch it twice. The second time you watch it, you feel sad. The main […]
Movie “Casualties of War” I watched “Casualties of War” on a CS broadcast for the first time in many […]
I would like to talk about the most delicious beer in the world. It is, however, a large bottle of a plain, domestic beer. Th […]
Movie “Nanjing! Nanjing!” This film essentially portrays a Japanese soldier, “Kadokawa,” as the main […]
Portrait of Mozart Even today, there are people who copy Michelangelo in museums. And there are people who spend hours every […]
A conversation with ChayGPT one day: “Occupations that will disappear due to AI” You: In the world, there is a lo […]
Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Gustav Leonhardt, La Petite Bande, others I would like to introduce the ones I have compared at t […]
Mozart: Flute Quartets / Barthold Kuijken, Masahiro Arita Mozart’s four flute quartets, along with his two concertos, a […]
Mozart: Flute Concertos / Barthold Kuijken and others ① Barthold Kuijken, La Petite Bande (1990) ② Konrad Hünteler, Orchestra […]
Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Collegium Aureum, etc. “Collegium Aureum” is a performing group formed in the early da […]
Bach: Easter Oratorio “Kommt, eilet und laufet” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, etc. This time, I compare […]
Marin Marais: “The Human Voice” (Flute Works) / François Lazarevitch François Lazarevitch, who recorded the compl […]
About Bach’s Bourée In suites, it is a fast dance in two beats that is often placed between the Sarabande and Gigue. It […]
Bach: Cantata No. 214 “Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten!” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan A secula […]
Bach: Cantata No. 204 “Ich bin in mir vergnügt” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan A cantata for solo soprano […]
Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas / Alexei Lubimov Alexei Borisovich Lubimov is a clavier player born in Moscow in 1944. He bega […]
Bach: Cantata No. 30a “Angenehmes Wiederau” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan A secular cantata composed by […]
Bach: Cantata No. 211 “Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan This happened at a […]
Bach: Cantata No. 205 “Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan Bach […]
Bach: Cantata No. 201 “Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan This secular cant […]
Bach: Cantata No. 202 “Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan A cantata for weddi […]
Bach: Chorales for four voices (Vol. 1-3) / Augsburg Cathedral Choir, Cologne Academy, Vocal Consort Berlin Chorales are an i […]
Bach: Cantata No. 191 “Gloria in excelsis Deo” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan A cantata with Latin text. […]
Bach: Cantata No. 190 “Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan A cantata for the […]
About Flute Sonatas （Road to Bach） The earliest flute sonatas date from the early Italian Baroque period. They are two-voice […]
Christoph Friedrich Bach The fourth in our series of Bach’s sons is Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, born in Leipzig in […]
Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was the second son of the great Bach, born in Weimar in 1714. His godfather was Georg […]
Friedemann Bach Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was born in Weimar in 1710, the eldest son of the great Bach. His own mother, Maria B […]
Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, was born in Leipzig in 1732. He was the only […]
Bach: Cantatas BWV Title Article 1 Bach: Cantata No. 1 “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern” / Nikolaus Harnoncour […]
Bach: Cantata No. 198 “Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl” / Gustav Leonhardt This cantata with secular lyrics w […]
Bach: Cantata No. 197 “Gott ist unsre Zuversicht” / Gustav Leonhardt This piece is composed of three trumpets, ti […]
Bach: Cantata No. 196 “Dem Gerechten muß das Licht” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt It begins with a Handel-like sinfonia. […]
Bach: Cantata No. 195 “Dem Gerechten muss das Licht” / Gustav Leonhardt This is a church cantata, but it was writ […]
Bach: Cantata No. 194 “Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The cantata begins with the choral p […]
Bach: Cantata No. 192 “Nun danket alle Gott” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Chorale cantata on a hymn by Martin Rinckart. […]
Bach: Cantata No. 188 “Ich habe meine Zuversicht” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Only fragments of the opening sinfonia r […]
Bach: Cantata No. 187 “Es wartet alles auf dich” / Gustav Leonhardt The text is based on a psalm. Bach later used […]
Bach: Cantata No. 186 “Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt During Leipzig period, Bach adapted and […]
Bach: Cantata No. 185 “Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata from the Weimar period […]
Bach: Cantata No. 181 “Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister” / Gustav Leonhardt The first aria, “Leichtgesinnte Fl […]
Bach: Cantata No. 176 “Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding” / Gustav Leonhardt Cantata for Trinity Sunday with te […]
Bach: Cantata No. 175 “Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen” / Gustav Leonhardt Cantata for Pentecost Tuesday with t […]
Bach: Cantata No. 172 “Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten!” / Gustav Leonhardt Cantata from the Weimar […]
Bach: Cantata No. 170 “Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlus” / Gustav Leonhardt One of Bach’s four solo cantat […]
Bach: Cantata No. 169 “Gott soll allein mein Herze haben” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt One of the solo cantatas for alt […]
Bach: Cantata No. 166 “Wo gehest du hin?” / Gustav Leonhardt The first piece is the bass aria “Wo gehest du […]
Bach: Cantata No. 165 “O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad” / Gustav Leonhardt A cantata from the Weimar period based […]
Bach: Cantata No. 164 “Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet” / Gustav Leonhardt This cantata, premiered in Leipzi […]
Bach: Cantata No. 163 “Nur jedem das Seine” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata from the Weimar period, text by Salomo […]
Bach: Cantata No. 162 “Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt A cantata from the W […]
Bach: Cantata No. 161 “Komm, du süße Todesstunde” / Nikolaus Arnoncourt Cantata from the Weimar period, composed […]
Bach: Cantata No. 139 “Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Chorale cantata based on a hymn […]
Bach: Cantata No. 138 “Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Chorale cantata on a hymn of unk […]
Bach: Cantata No. 137 “Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt A chorale cantata b […]
Bach: Cantata No. 136 “Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The opening chorus, &# […]
Bach: Cantata No. 135 “Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder” / Gustav Leonhardt Chorale cantata based on a hymn by Cyriaku […]
Bach: Cantata No. 134 “Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß” / Gustav Leonhardt This is a parody of the Cantata […]
The devil called “Explorer Patcher” I have written favorably about a third-party app called Explorer Patch […]
Explorer Patcherという悪魔 以前、Explorer Patcherというサード・パーティ・アプリを、好意的に取り上げたことがある。 ★私がWindows11を推す気になった理由 ★私がWindows11を推す気になった理 […]
Bach: Cantata No. 114 “Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost” / Gustav Leonhardt This is a chorale cantata based on […]
Bach: Cantata No. 113 “Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut” / Gustav Leonhardt This is a chorale cantata based on a […]
Bach: Cantata No. 112 “Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Chorale cantata based on a hymn by […]
Bach: Cantata No. 111 “Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh allzeit” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This is a chorale ca […]
Bach: Cantata No. 108 “Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata with text by Christiana M […]
On May 7, 1747, the wise Prussian monarch Frederick II invited the great composer Bach to his Sans Souci Palace. Upon Bach […]
Bach: Cantata No. 183 “Sie werden euch in den Bann tunt” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The first bass recitative is acco […]
Bach: Cantata No. 116 “Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The opening chorale, “Du Fr […]
Bach: Cantata No. 143 “Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele” / Gustav Leronhardt This cantata is composed of three corno d […]
Bach: Cantata No. 131 “Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata from the Mühlhausen […]
Bach: Cantata No. 90 “Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende” / Gustav Leronhardt The piece begins with the tenor ar […]
Bach: Cantata No. 89 “Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim” / Gustav Leronhardt The bass aria “Was soll ich […]
Bach: Cantata No. 3 “Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Choral cantata based on a hymn by Ma […]
Rameau’s Traité de l’harmonie Rameau wrote so many incomprehensible illusions and apocryphal truths about musical […]
Bach: Cantata No. 180 “Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele” / Gustav Leronhardt The first chorale, “Schmücke dich, […]
Bach: Cantata No. 179 “Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The opening p […]
Bach: Cantata No. 2 “Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Chorale cantata based on a hymn by […]
Bach: Cantata No. 23 “Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn” / Gustav Leronhardt The duet aria “Du wahrer Gott und […]
Bach: Cantata No. 22 “Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe” / Gustav Leronhardt This cantata begins with the tenor arios […]
Bach: Cantata No. 88 “Siehe, ich will viel Fischer aussenden” / Gustav Leronhardt In the first aria, “Siehe […]
Bach: Cantata No. 87 “Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The bass aria “ […]
Jacquet de La Guerre: Complete Harpsichord Works / Francesca Lanfranco Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, a female compos […]
Niccolò Piccinni: La Cecchina Ossia La Buona Figliola / Lucia Aliberti, Ugo Benelli etc. Pergolesi’s Intermezzo “ […]
“Roma Travestita” / Bruno de Sá There are several male “sopranistas” in the world who can sing songs […]
Claude Balbastre: The Clavecin Pieces, Volume 1 / Christophe Rousset Claude Balbastre, known as Marie Antoinette’s clav […]
Diderot’s “Rameau’s Nephew” “It is my custom to go for a walk in the park of the Palais-Royal a […]
About Bach’s Gigue Gigue dances, which end a suite, are often written in fugue (Fig. 1), and can be divided into two ty […]
Bach: Cantata No. 107 “Was willst du dich betrüben” / Gustav Leonhardt Chorale cantata with instrumentation of tw […]
Bach: Cantata No. 104 “Du Hirte Israel, höre” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This cantata is for the day of the last seco […]
Bach: Cantata No. 103 “Ihr werdet weinen und heulen” / Gustav Leonhardt Cantata opens with the choral piece ̶ […]
Bach: Cantata No. 102 “Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The first choral piece, & […]
Bach: Cantata No. 101 “Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott” / Gustav Leonhardt The long choral fantasy “Nimm […]
About Bach’s Menuet The most famous Bach menuet is the G major menuet from “Anna Magdalena Bach’s Music Boo […]
About Bach’s Gavotte Gavotte, a dance gavotte of French origin, also has many famous pieces by Bach. The following five […]
Bach: Cantata No. 99 “Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The first piece, a chorale fantasy […]
Bach: Cantata No. 98 “Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan” / Gustav Leonhardt The piece opens with the choral fantasy […]
Bach: Cantata No. 97 “In allen meinen Taten” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata from the late Leipzig period. The pie […]
Bach: Cantata No. 96 “Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohno” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The cantata opens with the chora […]
Bach: Cantata No. 109 “Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The first choral pi […]
Bach: Cantata No. 95 “Christus, der ist mein Leben” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The first movement is consists with tw […]
Bach: Cantata No. 94 “Was frag ich nach der Welt” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Chorale cantatas based on chorales by Ba […]
Bach: Cantata No. 85 “Ich bin ein guter Hirt” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The piece opens with the bass aria “Ic […]
Bach: Cantata No. 83 “Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The piece opens with the alto aria […]
Bach: Cantata No. 74 “Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten” / Gustav Leonhardt The first movement is a chor […]
Bach: Motets / Lautten Compagney, etc. Continuing from the previous issue, I would like to listen to Bach’s motets. Bac […]
Bach: Motets / Hilliard Ensemble and others ①The Hilliard Ensemble ②Collegium Vocale Gent ③Motettenchor Pforzheim ④Akademie f […]
About Bach’s Siciliano Often used in the slow movement of instrumental music, the Siciliano is a charming dance. It is […]
About Concerto 2 1. Concertos in the classical period: establishment of structure In the late 18th century, during the Classi […]
About Concerto 1. prehistory of the concerto: the renaissance period and early baroque (1) Increased independence of instrume […]
Mera sings Bach / Yosikazu Mera, Bach Collegium Japan This is a CD by Yosikazu Mera featuring a collection of Bach arias. Fro […]
Bach: Cantata No. 47 “Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The first chor […]
Bach: Cantata No. 46 “Schauet doch und sehet, ob irgend ein Schmerz sei” / Gustav Leonhardt Cantata with text by […]
Dietrich Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas Op. 1 & 2 / Arcangelo Dietrich Buxtehude, famous for his religious and organ works, left […]
Bach Flute Works / Janet See, Davitt Moroney, Mary Springfels A longtime flutist with Gardiner’s English Baroque Solois […]
Bach: Cantata No. 178 “Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This chorale cantata is based […]
Bach: Cantata No. 177 “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This cantata consists of two oboe […]
Bach: Cantata No. 174 “Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The opening Sinfonia is r […]
Bach: Cantata No. 173 “Erhöhtes Fleisch und Blut” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This is a church cantata written for Leo […]
Bach: Cantata No. 171 “Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The cantata begins with […]
Bach: Cantata No. 168 “Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata with a script by Salomon Franck b […]
Bach: Cantata No. 167 “Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata for the feast of St. Joh […]
Louis Couperin: Organ Works / Laurent Beyhurst On April 9, 1653, Louis Couperin was appointed organist of the church of Saint […]
Bach Flute Works / Ashley Solomon, Terence Charlston Ashley Solomon is a British flute and recorder player. His Bach is chara […]
Handel: Organ Concertos / Ragna Schirmer (pianoforte and others) This may be a controversial CD. The first three pieces (Op. […]
About Bach’s Variations How many “variations” did Bach write? The following are just a few that I have coun […]
Heinrich Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik / Tölzer Knabenchor Schütz published in Dresden in 1648 a collection of pieces classifi […]
“Fantasies, Ayres and Dances” / The Julian Bream Consort The record features music written for the so-called R […]
“Consort Songs” / Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Connor Burrowes Recorded in 1996. This CD features British tr […]
Telemann: Tafelmusik / Freiburg Baroque Orchestra I have played this collection of pieces by Telemann many times, and they ar […]
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 & 2 / Keith Jarrett Keith has recorded the first volume on piano and the second v […]
“Sopranista” / Samuel Mariño Is he a castrato or a sopranista? It doesn’t matter. All that can be said is t […]
Bach: Cantata No. 157 “Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn” / Gustav Leonhardt The three pieces after Cant […]
Eberlin: Nine Toccatas / David Titterington Eberlin was a German composer, born in 1702, who was organist to the archbishop o […]
Tartini: Devil’s Trill I read Thomas Mann’s “Dr. Faustus” when I was a teenager. I remember I read th […]
Bach: Golberg Variations / Michio Kobayashi Michio Kobayashi is a leading figure in the world of Japanese baroque music since […]
Bach: Mass in B minor / Bach Collegium Japan The first thing that strikes one when listening to this CD by Masaaki Suzuki is […]
Bach: Motets / Salicus Kammerchor Bach’s motets, which are often taken up by amateur and professional choirs alike, are […]
Bach: Aria “Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn’ ihn”（BWV1127） / Bach Collegium Japan This is a new piece by Bach […]
Keith Jarrett / My Foolish Heart Recorded live at the 2001 Montreux Jazz Festival. Gary Peacock on bass, Jack DeJohnette on d […]
Wes Montgomery / Full House Wes Montgomery is the performer who established the “octave technique” in the world o […]
Lee Morgan / The Sidewinder He is a clear-toned trumpet player. The title track is built on an eight beat and is often referr […]
Art Blakey / Moanin’ A hit number “Moanin'” was recorded by Art Blakey, famous for his dynamic drumming (Ni […]
Charles Mingus / Pithecanthropus Erectus In many ways, this music breaks the boundaries of jazz. The title track, which is sa […]
Astrud Gilberto / Jazz Around Midnight This is the kind of record you want to listen to on the beach on a nice day. The title […]
The movie “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” This American documentary film documents the 5th Newport Jazz Festival h […]
Bud Powell / Jazz Giant Powell made studio recordings with Ray Brown, Curly Russell, Max Roach, and others from 1949 to 1950. […]
Sarah Vaughan / Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown “April in Paris”, “Jim”, “Lullaby of Birdland […]
Bill Evans / Sunday at the Village Vanguard This recording was the last performance by the Bill Evans Trio with bassist Scott […]
Bill Evans / Waltz for Debby This is one of the Bill Evans Trio’s most famous records. From the first track, “My […]
Bill Evans, Jim Hall / Under Current This is the record with the famous jacket photo. It is also the record that popularized […]
Bill Evans, Monica Zetterlund / Waltz for Debby Not many records feature Bill Evans as a vocal collaborator, but this Waltz f […]
Bill Evans, Jeremy Steig / What’s New? Jeremy Steig overcame right facial paralysis caused by an automobile accident, w […]
Bill Evans, Toots Thielemans / Affinity Sometimes ennui, sometimes eloquence, sometimes bluesy harmonica tones are irresistib […]
Ray Bryant / Golden Earrings Famous for the melody of the melancholy title track. This album also includes “Angel Eyes& […]
About Bach’s Tuning Method – 2 https://excelkobo.net/Bach-WTC1_manuscript.pdf Pythagorean 5th degree … Abou […]
About Chopin I am confident that most people would agree with me that the greatest composer of the piano instrument is Freder […]
About Bach’s Tuning Method https://excelkobo.net/Bach-WTC1_manuscript.pdf What does Bach mean by “The Well-Temper […]
About so-called “Well-Tempered” Pythagorean 5th degree … about 701.96 cents The fifth degree of the meanton […]
Too beautiful to be sad Mozart JosephⅡ: “It’s very good. Of course now and then, just now and then… It seem […]
About Vallotti temperament Pythagorean 5th degree … about 701.96 cents The fifth degree of the meantone … about 6 […]
About Meantone Pythagorean 5th degree … about 701.96 cents The fifth degree of the meantone … about 696.5 cents T […]
Joe Pass / Virtuoso A solo performance of a standard number with a guitar, an instrument with many “restrictions” […]
Duke Jordan / Flight to Denmark Starting with the original song “No Problem”, which begins with a percussion and […]
Chet Baker / Sings and… Amateurish but charming vocals and a unique trumpet. His signature song “My Funny Valenti […]
Art Pepper / Meets the Rhythm Section The famous “You’ll Be So Nice to Come Home to” begins with a light pi […]
Lady in Satin / Billie Holiday This is a masterpiece from Billie Holiday’s later years, in which she skillfully sings o […]
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman The tone and technique of this man are probably unique in the world of ja […]
Helen Merrill / With Clifford Brown She has a very sexy husky voice. The song “You’ll Be So Nice to Come Home to& […]
The movie “Round Midnight” I thought the muted trumpet playing in the title background was quite good. But when I […]
Bud Powell / The Scene Changes From the beginning of “Cleopatra’s Dream” the audience was immediately drawn […]
Bach: Complete Secular Cantatas / Bach Collegium Japan The complete secular cantatas by the Bach Collegium Japan are now avai […]
Bach: Complete Organ Works / David Goode I have discs of Bach’s complete organ works by Helmut Walcha, Marie-Claire Ala […]
Bach: The Art of Fugue / Gustav Leonhardt, Kenneth Gilbert, Davitt Moroney In his later years, Bach became even more absorbed […]
Bach: Cantata No. 86 “Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The piece begins with the bass ar […]
Bach: Cantata No. 81 “Jesus Schläft, was soll ich hoffen?” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The piece opens with the gloomy […]
Bach: Cantata No. 77 “Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren,lieben” / Gustav Leonhardt The piece begins with the chorus &# […]
Bach: Cantata No. 69a, No. 69 “Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt An early version of BWV 69a (1 […]
About Wagner’s Music Wagner’s ideas could be socialist today and nationalist tomorrow, pro-Jewish today and anti- […]
About Bach’s Allemande The first dance movement in clavecin suite is the Allemande. This piece, which is as “Kyri […]
Music of Bach One of the things that is often said about the characteristics of the “modern era” is that people c […]
Bach: Cantata No. 76 “Die Hinmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata for the Second Sunday a […]
Bach: Cantata No. 75 “Die Elenden sollen essen” / Gustav Leonhardt A long cantata in two parts, written for Trini […]
Bach: Cantata No. 68 “Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The first piece is a chorale fantasy […]
Bach: Cantata No. 34 “O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This cantata begins with ̶ […]
Alleluia / Julia Lezhneva This is a disc where you can hear the wonderful coloratura of Lezhneva. The CD is a collection of s […]
Bach: Complete Lute Works / Yasunori Imamura The greatest legacy for this instrument is undoubtedly that of Bach, of which re […]
Bach: Cantata No. 73 “Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir” / Gustav Leonhardt The first movement is the chorus […]
Bach: Cantata No. 72 “Alles nur nach Gottes Willen” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The opening chorus, “Alles nur n […]
Bach: Cantata No. 71 “Gott ist mein König” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Bach was appointed organist of Divi Blasii Chur […]
Bach: Cantata No. 70 “Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt A cantata from the Weimar period, fir […]
Bach: Cantata No. 69a “Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt First performed on August 15, 1723. Th […]
Bach: Cantata No. 52 “Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht” / Gustav Leonhardt Along with BWV 51, 84, and 199, this i […]
Bach: Cantata No. 40 “Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes” / Gustav Leonhardt Christmas cantata. The opening cho […]
Bach: Cantata No. 39 “Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot” / Gustav Leonhardt The long chorus “Brich dem Hungrige […]
Bach: Cantata No. 38 “Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt First performed in Leipzig on Octo […]
Bach: Cantata No. 37 “Wer da gläubet und getauft wird” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata for the Ascension of Christ […]
Bach: Cantata No. 36 “Schwingt freudig euch empor” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Although this cantata is from the Leipz […]
Bach: Cantata No. 28 “Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The piece opens with the soprano […]
Bach: Cantata No. 27 “Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende?” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The piece begins with the chorus […]
About Trio Sonatas Trio sonata is the most popular chamber music of the Baroque period. The germ of the trio sonata can alrea […]
Bach: Cantata No. 25 “Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The instrumentation consists […]
Bach: Cantata No. 24 “Ein ungefärbt Gemüte” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The piece begins with the alto aria “Ein […]
Bach: Cantata No. 20 “O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The piece opens with the choral fantasy & […]
Bach: Cantata No. 19 “Es erhub sich ein Streit” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The instrumentation consists of three trum […]
Bach: Cantata No. 17 “Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The piece is divided into two par […]
Bach: Cantata No. 6 “Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The opening chorus, “ […]
Bach: Cantata No. 93 “Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This cantata for the Fifth Sund […]
Bach: Cantata No. 92 “Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn” / Gustav Leonhardt Choral cantata based on a hymn by Paul […]
Bach: Cantata No. 91 “Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ” / Gustav Leonhardt Christmas chorale cantata based on Martin […]
Bach: Cantata No. 67 “Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ” / Gustav Leonhardt Cantata for the first Sunday after East […]
Bach: Cantata No. 66 “Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen” / Gustav Leonhardt Cantata for Easter, first performed on April 1 […]
Bach: Cantata No. 65 “Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The opening chorus, “Sie werd […]
Bach: Cantata No. 64 “Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata for the […]
Bach: Cantata No. 63 “Christen, ätzet diesen Tag” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This cantata for Christmas was written i […]
Bach: Cantata No. 62 “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata for the First Sunday of Advent […]
Bach: Cantata No. 61 “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata from the Weimar period. It beg […]
Bach: Cantata No. 60 “Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This cantata was written […]
Bach: Cantata No. 59 “Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata for Pentecost, f […]
Bach: Cantata No. 49 “Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The opening Sinfonia is practically […]
Bach: Cantata No. 48 “Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The opening chorus, ̶ […]
Bach: Cantata No. 44 “Sie werden euch in den Bann tun” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Bach performed this cantata for the […]
Bach: Cantata No. 42 “Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This cantata for the first Sunday […]
Bach: Cantata No. 33 “Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” / Gustav Leonhardt This cantata was premiered in Leipzig o […]
Bach: Cantata No. 43 “Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata No.43 was composed by J.S.Bach […]
Bach: Cantata No. 41 “Jesu, nun sei gepreiset” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt A festive cantata written for the New Year […]
Bach: Cantata No. 4 “Christ lag in Todes Banden” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Chorale cantata with lyrics and melody fr […]
Bach: Cantata No. 159 “Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem” / Gustav Leonhardt The first movement is a dialogue […]
Bach: Cantata No. 148 “Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The choral piece “Bring […]
Bach: Cantata No. 151 “Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt” / Gustav Leonhardt This Christmas-themed cantata was first […]
Bach: Cantata No. 150 “Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich” / Gustav Leonhardt This work is attributed to the Arnstadt […]
Bach: Cantata No. 149 “Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg” / Gustav Leonhardt Cantata for the Feast of St. Michael. […]
Bach: Cantata No. 146 “Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The long opening Sinfonia and the se […]
Bach: Cantata No. 145 “Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Cantata written for Easte […]
Arcangelo Corelli: Op.1～6 (complete works) / Pavlo Beznosiuk & The Avison Ensemble The complete works of Corelli by the A […]
“Concord” / Modern Jazz Quartet The Modern Jazz Quartet is a clash of two personalities: John Lewis (piano), who […]
Jazz Sebastian Bach and others / The Swingle Singers When I was young, I listened to their records and was hooked. I can hide […]
Goldberg Variations / Keith Jarrett Keith Jarrett is well known for his Bach performances. His most famous work is the “ […]
The Amorous Flute / David Munrow At the time, everyone was stunned by his untimely death. He, David Munrow, left the world of […]
Bach: Cantata No. 210 “O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit” etc. / Carolyn Sampson, Bach Collegium Japan A secular cant […]
The Well-Tempered Clavier Complete / Masaaki Suzuki This is a recording of the complete works of The Well-Tempered Clavier by […]
Bach: Concertos for Two Harpsichords / Masato Suzuki, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan It is a sharp performance that dra […]
Henry Purcell: “Music for a While” and “The Purcell Album” / Alfred Deller Alfred Deller’s reco […]
John Dowland: Lute Songs / Alfred Deller There was a time in my young life when I was fascinated by Dowland’s music. Th […]
“Brockes Passion” / Peter van Heyghen, René Jacobs, and others The “Brockes Passion” is a Passion ora […]
Bach: Agnus Dei / Alfred Deller This recording was made in 1954. Alfred Deller was introduced in Japan as a pioneer of counte […]
Bach: Harpsichord Concertos / Masato Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan Masato Suzuki’s recording of the harpsichord concerto […]
About Bach’s Courante Bach’s Courante can be roughly divided into two types. One is the French-style Courante (Fi […]
Marais: Opera “Alcione” / Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations The French opera world in the latter half of the 1 […]
Bach: Oboe Concertos / Marcel Ponseele etc. All of Bach’s oboe concertos or oboe d’amore concertos are arrangemen […]
Bach: Werke aus dem “Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach” / Gutav Leonhardt etc. This is a nostalgic Harmonia M […]
Bach: Matthew Passion / Wiltener Sängerknaben Who is the “star” of the Matthew Passion? The main character in the […]
Bach: Cantata No. 54 “Widerstehe doch der Sünde” / Gustav Leonhardt This is a solo cantata for alto consisting of […]
Bach: Cantata No. 35 “Geist und Seele wird verwirret” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This is a solo cantata for alto. It […]
Bach: Cantata No. 32 “Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen” / Gustav Leonhardt The piece begins with the soprano aria &# […]
Bach: Cantata No. 31 “Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This cantata from the Weimar […]
Bach: Cantata No. 18 “Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt A cantata from the […]
Bach: Cantata No. 58 “Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Like Cantata No. 57, it consists of […]
About Bach’s Tuning Method https://excelkobo.net/Bach-WTC1_manuscript.pdf What does Bach mean by “The Well-Temper […]
Bach: Cantata No. 57 “Selig ist der Mann” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Peter Jelosits of the “Wiener Sangerknaben […]
Bach: Cantata No. 1 “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This chorale cantata is based on […]
Bach: Cantata No. 158 “Der Friede sei mit dir” / Gustav Leonhardt This is one of the three solo cantatas for bass […]
Musical Offering / Aston Magna, Michael Behringer The Aston Magna Group consist of a group of regular performers at the Ameri […]
Sospiri (Sigh) / Cecilia Bartoli This is an omnibus album of baroque, classical, until late romantic compositions. Recorded b […]
Telemann: Fantasias for Unaccompanied Flute / Hans Martin Linde etc. I would like to introduce the following four recordings […]
Rameau: Concert / Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Brüggen, Wieland Kuijken, and Sigiswald Kuijken Recorded in 1971, this means a half- […]
Mission – Agostino Steffani: Arias / Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Diego Fasolis This is one of Bartoli’s […]
François Couperin – Suites Royales / Claire Gautrot, Marouan Mankar-Bennis In my personal opinion, the two viol suites […]
Antonio Vivaldi / Cecilia Bartoli, Jean-Christophe Spinosi More than 20 years after her last recording of Vivaldi numbers, Ba […]
Farinelli / Cecilia Bartoli, Giovanni Antonini What an eccentric CD jacket! In this CD, a collection of arias written for Far […]
Vivaldi Album / Cecilia Bartoli, Giovanni Antonini What is so great about Bartoli is her inquisitive mind. Who has ever met s […]
Porpora: Violin Sonatas / Giovanni Guglielmo, Anton Steck Nicola Porpora, famous as an opera composer and for training singer […]
Bach: Cantata No. 16 “Herr Gott, dich loben wir” / Gustav Leonhardt The first movement chorus, Herr Gott, dich lo […]
Bach: Cantata No. 105 “Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt In the first half o […]
Bach: Cantata No. 26 “Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt “Oh how fleeting, oh how tr […]
St. Petersburg / Cecilia Bartoli, Diego Fasolis It was around 1785 that Daikokuya Kotayu of Yasushi Inoue’s historical […]
Opera Proibita / cecilia bartoli, marc minkowski Cecilia Bartoli again. Bartoli’s 2005 recording with Marc Minkowski, e […]
Dolce Duello (Sweet Duels) / Cecilia Bartoli, Sol Gabetta The album is titled “Sweet Duel”, Cecilia Bartoli singi […]
Bach: Cantata No. 14 “Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit” / Gustav Leonhardt The first movement is the chorale fan […]
Bach: Cantata No. 7 “Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam” / Gustav Leonhardt The entire piece is based on a hymn by […]
Bach: Cantata No. 140 “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt One of Bach’s most famous ch […]
About “French Suite” As I have written somewhere before, I like “French Suite” among Bach’s cla […]
Bach: Cantata No. 132 “Bereitet die Wege, bereitte die Bahn” / Gustav Leonhardt This cantata from the Weimar peri […]
Baroque Gender Stories / Vivica Genaux, Lawrence Zazzo “Siroe” is an opera seria from the libretto by Pietro Meta […]
Handel / Julia Lezhneva A young Russian singer, Julia Lezhneva, has been remarkably active in recent years. This CD of arias […]
About John Passion Passion composed by Bach for Good Friday, April 7, 1724. Compared to the Matthew Passion, the story unfold […]
Handel: Cantata in Italian / Emma Kirkby, Christopher Hogwood Many of Handel’s vocal works are large, and listening to […]
Handel: 9 German arias / Emma Kirkby, London Baroque One of the few Handel works in German, with lyrics by German scriptwrite […]
Bach: John Passion / Andreas Reize, Thomanerchor Leipzig New recording by Andreas Reize, 18th cantor of St. Thomas Church, Le […]
The Oboe in Berlin, The Oboe in Dresden / Xenia Löffler No one has ever be able to control the baroque oboe with such mastery […]
Telemann: Trio Sonatas / Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt, and others This is the recording of Frans Brüggen at the peak of hi […]
Lachrimae Pavan / Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt, and others In the 1970s, this record took the Japanese classical music wor […]
Bach Flute Works / Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt, and Anner Bylsma A CD of Bach’s Flute Sonatas recorded by Frans Brü […]
The History of the Solo Flute – Pan’s Flute: A 400-year Journey of the Flute / Masahiro Arita In 1998, Arita reco […]
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Tizian Geyer, Sven Wagner The most famous Stabat Mater sung by boy soprano is by Sebastian Hennig & […]
Weiss’s Lute Sonatas and Mattheson Mattheson, a composer and “natural enemy” of the lute player, has writte […]
Arias by Bach, Handel, and Mozart / Aksel Rykkvin I wish Aksel Rykkvin would have left us with more Bach recordings. Preferab […]
About Bach’s Sarabande A sarabande is a slow three-beat dance, usually placed after the Courant of the suite, with the […]
Bach Flute Works / Marc Hantai, Pierre Hantai, Jerome Hantai These are discs performed by the Hantai brothers. The style in w […]
Handel: “Acis and Galatea” / Christian Curnyn and others I think this was the first of Handel’s vocal piece […]
Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op. 6 / Modo Antiquo, Federico Maria Sardelli etc. Arcangelo Corelli perfected the form of the conce […]
Charpentier, Lully, Delalande: Te Deum / Le Poème Harmonique and others The “three great composers” of the Baroqu […]
Bach: Magnificat / Collegium Vocale Gent Magnificat is a piece of music attached to the lyrics of the hymn to Mary from the G […]
Thelonious Monk / Thelonious Himself This is a truly interesting disc, recorded the process of the formation of the immortal […]
Handel: “Admeto, King of Thessaly” / Alan Curtis, René Jacobs, and others Two sopranos of the “Royal Academ […]
Bach: Cantata No. 30 “Freue dich, erlöste Schar” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The original is the secular cantata ̶ […]
Bach: Cantata No. 13 “Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen” / Gustav Leonhardt The piece opens with the tenor aria “ […]
Bach: Cantata No. 10 “Meine Seel erhebt den Herren” / Gustav Leonhardt This chorale cantata, based on the German […]
François Couperin: Mass for Parish Services, Mass for Convent Services / Marie-Claire Alain A similar work by Nicolas de Grig […]
Bach: Easter Oratorio, Ascension Oratorio / Bach Collegium Japan The episodes related to the resurrection of Christ are sung […]
Bach Instagram Ver.1 No. Last Name Full Name Birth & Death Wiki Google Amazon YouTube ISMLP 0001 Aagesen Truid Aagesen (1 […]
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Sechs Duette für zwei Flöten / Barthold Kuijken, Marc Hantai Similar works have been written by Tele […]
Bach: Six Trio Sonatas / Robert King: The King’s Consort For many instrumentalists, Bach’s chamber music is by no […]
Bach: Cantata No. 208 “Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd” / Rudolf Lutz, J.S. Bach Foundation Orchestra A s […]
Queen of Baroque / Cecilia Bartoli All of Cecilia Bartoli’s recordings are good, but this CD is one of her best. Her co […]
Suites for Unaccompanied Cello (on Violoncello da spalla) / Ryo Terakado I think it was Sigiswald Kuijken who introduced the […]
Bach: Cantata No. 78 “Jesu, Der Du Meine Seele” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The piece begins with the chorale “J […]
Bach: Cantata No. 79 “Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild” / Gustav Leonhardt The chorus “Gott der Herr ist S […]
Bach: Cantata No. 80 “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Bach’s cantata No. 80 is based […]
Bach: Cantata No. 110 “Unser Mund sei voll Lachens” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The opening chorus, “Unser Mund […]
Bach: Cantata No. 84 “Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This is a solo cantata for sopra […]
About “Il pastor fido” Baroque fans of my generation were convinced that this was a work by Vivaldi. The Archiv v […]
Bach：German Organ Mass / Helmut Walcha, Ton Koopman, Marie-Claire Alain and others The third volume of the four Clavier Exerc […]
Frans Brüggen Edition / Frans Brüggen For today’s younger generation, the image of Frans Brüggen is that of a conductor […]
Arcangelo Corelli / Sonatas for Violin, Op.5 / Accademia Bizantina and others The fame of Arcangelo Corelli was not only in I […]
Forqueray Unchained / Andre Lislevand, Jadran Duncumb and Paola Erdas I was totally amazed by this violist. No, not only the […]
Bach: Lutheran Mass Vol.2 / Bach Collegium Japan Many of the movements in Bach’s Lutheran Masses are adaptation from ca […]
Handel: “Julius Caesar in Egypt” / René Jacobs, Jennifer Larmour This is an Opera seria composed by Handel for th […]
Bach Instagram Ver.2 No. Last_Name Full_Name Nation Birth Death wiki google amazon youtube ISMLP 001 Agazzari Agostino Agazza […]
About Bach’s Mass in B minor The Kyrie is the first text of the liturgy and the “face” of the Mass. Therefo […]
The Art of Fugue / Emerson String Quartet / Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone / Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet There are […]
Bach: Cantata No. 21 “Ich hatte viel Bekummernis” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This is a large cantata from the Weimar […]
Bach: Cantata No. 12 “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” / Gustav Leonhardt. Cantata from Bach’s Weimar period. […]
Quiz. What is the king of musical instruments? If you’re a real baroque fan, you’ll know right away. It’s a […]
Bach: Cantata No. 55 “Ich armer Mensch, ich Sundenknecht” / Gustav Leonhardt This is a solo cantata for tenor. Th […]
Caldara: Oratorio “Maddalena ai piedi di Christo” / Le Banquet Céleste, Damien Guillon Antonio Caldara (1670 R […]
Bach: Cantata No. 45 “Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist” / Gustav Leonhardt This is a large piece. The first […]
Bach: Cantata No. 9 “Es ist das Heil uns kommen her” / Gustav Leonhardt With flute, oboe d’amore, string or […]
Bach: Cantata No. 115 “Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The fourth aria, “Bete aber a […]
Bach: Cantata No. 100 “Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan” / Gustav Leonhardt This cantata is composed in the style […]
Bach: Cantata No. 8 “Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?” / Gustav Leonhardt The first chorus begins with two o […]
Bach: Cantata No. 29 “Wir danken dir Gott wir danken dir” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This is a cantata with a rich in […]
Bach: Cantata No. 51 “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen” / Gustav Leonhardt This is one of the two cantatas in the Co […]
Bach: Cantata No. 182 “Himmelskonig, sei willkommen” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This is a cantata from Bach’s W […]
Bach: Cantata No. 147 “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The popularity of this cantata is […]
Bach: Cantata No. 106 “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit” / Gustav Leonhardt This is a funeral cantata composed […]
Use of original instruments in Bach performances The prefering for original instruments in Bach’s performance is now ac […]
Bach: Cantata No. 82 “Ich habe genug” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This is a solo cantata for bass, sung by Philippe Hu […]
Bach: Cantata No. 147 “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The popularity of this cantata is […]
Bach: Cantata No. 56 “Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen” / Gustav Leonhardt This is practically a solo cantata […]
Bach: Cantata No. 11 “Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This is one of my most favorite cantat […]
The Complete Bach Cantatas / Leonhardt, Harnoncourt At that time, the West German label “Archiv” (yes, there were […]
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Four Symphonies / Karl Richter I think this record was the first one of the music by Emanuel Bach. […]
Francois Couperin: Concerts Royaux / Kuijken Ensemble / Christophe Rousset / Robert Claire / Walter Van Hauwe This is Couperi […]
Francois Couperin: L’Apotheose De Lully, L’Apotheose De Corelli / Kuijken Ensemble / Christophe Rousset This CD c […]
Baroque Lute Vol.1 / Eugen Muller-Dombois This record was released in the early days of the lute. I remember listening to thi […]
“Les Sylvains” / Shigeo Mito I would like to introduce a performance by an old friend of mine, the lute player Sh […]
Jan Dismas Zelenka：Trio Sonata / Ensemble Zefiro / Paul Dombrecht,Marcel Ponseele The long fugue movements, written in two-pa […]
Handel: Solo Sonatas (Op.1) / Frans Brüggen, Barthold Kuijken, Masahiro Arita, etc. I have a number of discs of this as well. […]
Francesco Antonio Bonporti:４Concerti a quattro / I Musici It was about 50 years ago that I found a vinyl copy of a concerto b […]
Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 3, Op. 6 / The Academy of Ancient Music Handel’s Concerto Grossos have a strong sense of & […]
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Complete Sonatas for Flute and Basso Continuo / Konrad Hünteler / Barthold Kuijken I myself often […]
Bach: Orchestral Suites / La Petite Band / La Stravaganza Köln My first record was an analog version of Kurt Redel and the Mu […]
Bach: Cantata No. 173a “Durchlauchtster Leopold” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan This secular cantata was […]
Bach: Cantata No. 134a “Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan During the Köth […]
Bach: Cantata No. 209 “Non sa che sia dolore” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan A fascinating piece of reper […]
Bach: Cantata No. 215 “Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan In October […]
Bach: Cantata No. 206 “Schleicht, spielende Wellen” / Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan In 1733, Friedrich Aug […]
Bach: Early Cantatas, Vol.3 / Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance etc. BWV 172 “Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten!& […]
Bach: Early Cantatas, Vol.2 / Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance etc. BWV 12 “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen”(Weimar) BWV […]
Bach: Early Cantatas, Vol.1 / Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance etc. BWV 4 “Christ lag in Todes Banden”(Arnstadt) BWV 1 […]
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Complete Flute Sonatas / Barthold Kuijken, Bob van Asperen The flute and obbligato harpsichord son […]
The Matthew Passion’s then and now Since Mendelssohn’s re-staging of Bach’s Matthew Passion, there have bee […]
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Flute Concertos / Konrad Hünteler, Ton Koopman conducting I believe that Hünteler was the first pe […]
Bach: Violin Concertos / Monica Huggett, Alison Bury Vn, conducted by Ton Koopman I had an old analog version by “I Mus […]
Leclair: Scylla and Glaucus / John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, and others I had no idea that Leclair had writte […]
Bach: Harpsichord Concertos / Ton Koopman conducting and harpsichord The first complete set of harpsichord concertos I ever b […]
Handel: Complete Organ Concertos / Ton Koopman conducting and organ The difference between Handel’s organ concerto and […]
Flute Recital / Barthold Kuijken This is a collection of mainly an unaccompanied partita by the Johann Sebastian Bach and an […]
Bach: “Wedding Cantata” / Emma Kirkby, Christopher Hogwood This is one of Emma Kirkby’s best recordings. Sh […]
Sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin / Vito Paternoster / Hopkinson Smith The first of these version’s sound s […]
French Chamber Music of the 18th Century / Hotteterre Ensemble This is their debut album. I remember the moment I first dropp […]
Couperin: “lecon de tenebres” and others / Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby This is one of the most moving religious so […]
Telemann: 12 Sonate Metodiche / Frans Brüggen / Barthold Kuijken I have two different recordings of this piece. The first is […]
Telemann: Der getreue Musik-meister / Camerata Köln There are magazines that come with plastic model parts as a supplement ev […]
Telemann: Tafelmusik / Musica Antiqua Köln Telemann was a shrewd businessman who never neglected to book and publish his own […]
Devil’s Trill and others / Eduard Melkus This is a collection of violin sonatas by Vitali, Tartini, and Nardini. Vitali […]
Bach: Coffee Cantata “Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht” etc. / Emma Kirkby, Christopher Hogwood It is an “op […]
Bach: Viola da Gamba Sonatas / Anner Bylsma, Bob Van Asperen The first record I bought was Archiv label by August Wenzinger a […]
Six Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin / Bob Van Asperen, Lucy Van Dael etc. The first record I bought was an analog version […]
Le Parnasse Francais -French Baroque Works / Musica Antiqua Köln This is an analog record containing works by Marais, Couperi […]
Blavet: Flute Sonatas / Masahiro Arita The performer, Arita, is such a devotee of Michel Blavet that he regards him as his &# […]
Leclair: Complete Flute Sonatas / Barthold Kuijken Jean-Marie Leclair was a French violinist and composer. He went to Italy a […]
Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts / Robert Kohnen and the Kuijken brothers etc. The first time I heard this wonderful wo […]
Hotteterre: Pieces pour la Flute Traversiere / Barthold Kuijken etc. This is a collection of Jacques-Martin Hotteterre Le Rom […]
Vivaldi: Concertos for Lute and Mandolin / Il Giardino Armonico A collection of Vivaldi’s concertos with lute and mando […]
Vivaldi: Chamber Concertos / Il Giardino Armonico, Camerata Köln Comparing the Vivaldi of the two groups, I think Il Giardino […]
Corelli: Complete Trio Sonatas / Purcell Quartet During the Baroque era, musicians all over Europe respected and looked up to […]
The Art of Fugue / Ton Koopman, Tini Mathot This work is written in full score, but since it can be played well on a keyboard […]
The Well-Tempered Clavier Complete / Gustav Leonhardt My first record of this music was by Leonhardt. Of course, it was the a […]
Pergolesi: La serva padrona / Maddalena Bonifaccio, Siegmund Nimsgern Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, who wrote the famous ̶ […]
Francois Couperin: Pieces de Violes / Jordi Savall It is said that one of the goals of a viol player is to be able to play Co […]
Couperin: Les Nations / Kuijken Ensemble, others I like to listen to those pieces recorded by the Kuijken Ensemble, Hesperion […]
Couperin: Les gouts reunis, ou Nouveaux concerts / Christophe Rousset This CD include ten so-called the “Nouveaux conce […]
Couperin: The Works For Clavecin / Christophe Rousset This 10-CD set contains all of Couprin’s clavecin pieces and four […]
Baroque Arias For Counter-Tenor / Yoshikazu Mera The first time I heard Yoshikazu Mera perform was at the “Tochigi Kura […]
Purcell: Fantasia / Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien Those pieces, written in the style of an era before Purcell& […]
Byrd: Masses for 3, 4, and 5 Voices / Tallis Scholars Byrd’s religious works include the Great Service for the Church o […]
Bach: Cantata No. 130 “Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This chorale cantata is based on a […]
Bach: Cantata No. 212 “Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet” / Mojca Erdmann, Dominik Wörner, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium […]
Handel arias / Franco Fagioli, Il Pomo d’Oro, Zelfira Valova This is a counter-tenor who sings coloratura easily and wi […]
Bach: Cantata No. 199 “Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This solo cantata for soprano, written […]
Bach: Cantata No. 125 “Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This is a chorale cantata based […]
Bach: Cantata No. 124 “Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Chorale cantata based on a hymn by Chri […]
Bach: Cantata No. 123 “Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This is a chorale cantata wi […]
Bach: Cantata No. 122 “Das neugeborne Kindelein” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Chorale cantata based on a hymn by Cyriak […]
Bach: Cantata No. 133 “Ich freue mich in dir” / Gustav Leonhardt Choral cantata with hymns by Caspar Ziegler. The […]
Bach: Cantata No. 129 “Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott” / Gustav Leonhardt Chorale cantata based on the hymn R […]
Bach: Cantata No. 128 “Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein” / Gustav Leonhardt Cantata for Ascension Day with text by […]
About Standards Eric Dolphy said, “When you hear music, after it’s over, it’s gone in the air, you can neve […]
Bach: Cantata No. 127 “Herr Jesu Christ, wahr’ Mensch und Gott” / Gustav Leonhardt Chorale cantata with hym […]
Bach: Cantata No. 121 “Christum wir sollen loben schon” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This cantata was written for the s […]
Bach: Cantata No. 120 “Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt This cantata was composed for t […]
“The Salieri Album” / Cecilia Bartoli, Age of Enlightenment Orchestra Released in 2003 in anticipation of the Moz […]
Bach: Cantata No. 119 “Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn” / Nikolaus Harnoncourt The work opens with a French overture […]
Bach: Cantata No. 117 “Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut” / Gustav Leonhardt Chorale cantata based on a hymn melod […]
About “Tartini tone” The otherday I have written about “Tartini Tone” in my article “The Road t […]
Telemann: Trio sonatas / Camerata Köln Johann Joachim Quantz says in his “Versuch einer Anweisung die Flote traversiere […]
English Suite, Partita / Gustav Leonhardt I think some people may prefer these to the French Suites. The English Suite has a […]
Telemann: Paris Quartet / Kuijken Brothers, Gustav Leonhardt and others Johann Joachim Quantz, in his book “Versuch ein […]
Sonata and Partita for Unaccompanied Violin / Viktoria Yurievna Mullova, Unaccompanied Cello Suites / Ophelie Gaillard I have […]
Bach Lutheran Masses Vol.1 / Bach Collegium Japan Bach wrote a long Mass in B minor for Catholic worship (BWV232), but he als […]
Tarquinio Merula: arias and capricci / Montserrat Figueras, Hordi Savall Tarquinio Merula was a composer and organist active […]
French Suite / Gustav Leonhardt Of Bach’s three Clavier Suites, I like the French Suite the best. Its compactness and t […]
Johann Christian Bach: Complete Symphonies / Hanover Band Christian Bach’s symphonies are more than Mozart’s in t […]
Goldberg Variations / Gustav Leonhardt The publication date of the Goldberg Variations is 1741. The theme aria is the twenty- […]
Corelli, Handel Complete Sonatas for Violin / Eduard Melkus This is a collection of two big composer issued by Alchiv label. […]
John Dowland Songbooks / The Consort of Music (Anthony Rooley) I love Dowland. When I feel depressed or want to die, listenin […]
Brandenburg Concertos / Gustav Leonhardt and others I have six or seven discs of the Brandenburg Concertos, including analog […]
Der Fluyten Lust-Hof / Francois Lazarevitch I ordered this one along with the Bach CD. Here he is playing superbly with vario […]
Louis Couperin: The Complete Works for Clavecin / Blandine Verlet Although Louis Couperin is less often mentioned than his ne […]
The Complete Works of Couperin / Laurence Bouley I usually listen to Christophe Rousset’s performances of Couperin̵ […]
Handel’s Four Suites / Isolde Ahlgrimm I have also Handel’s complete Suites of Isolde Ahlgrimm, but after all, th […]
Michel Lambert: Leçons de Ténèbres / Marc Mauillon, and others Marc Mauillon. The moment I heard this man sing “Leçons […]
Michel Lambert: Air de cour / Agnès Mellon, William Christie, and others Lambert was a singer, composer, ballet dancer, and t […]
Samuel Pepys and Bunzaemon Asahi Around the time of the “Genroku” era (around 1700s in Japan), here and there on […]
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos / La Petite Bande / Bach Collegium Japan There is only one problem regarding the historicity of t […]
About “Excel diary” 1.The password is “99999999”. If you want to set your own favorite password, plea […]
My Favorite Contemporary Music I thought I’d introduce my relatively “favorite contemporary music”. It̵ […]
Bach’s Matthew Passion (Tölzer Knabenchor) Bach’s Matthew Passion performed by the “Tölzer Knabenchor” […]
Bach in the Movies (Goldberg Variations) Anthony Hopkins is an actor who has appeared in some of the greatest movies of all t […]
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Emma Kirkby, James Bowman The piece begins with a tragic string ensemble. The melody of the beginni […]
A nostalgic film “Tousles Matins du Monde” I used to have a VHS copy of this film, and I can’t tell you how […]
Bach’s movieⅢ This is a German-French-Swiss co-production, “Mein name ist bach”, made in 2004. https://exce […]
Bach’s movieⅡ Arguably the best film about Bach is “Johann Sebastian Bach”, an East German-Hungarian co-pro […]
Bach’s movieⅠ The first one is “Chronik Der Anna Magdalena Bach” made in West Germany in 1968. https://exce […]
Bach: Cantata No. 184 “Erwünschtes Freudenlicht” / Gustav Leronhardt The piece opens with a long recitative by a […]
Farinelli & Porpora “His Master’s Voice” / Philip Jaroussky Nicola Porpora was more famous at the time […]
Handel: “Almira” / Paul O’dette, Emöke Barath, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra This opera was premier […]
Portraits of Music Everyone is aware of the many “portraits of music” that were composed in France during the Bar […]
Couperin：”Trois Leçons de Ténèbres” / Sandrine Piau, Véronique Gens I had time to listen to several Leçons de Tén […]
About Bach’s “Sequenz” One of the charms of Baroque music is “Sequenz”. Although it is not limi […]
Lute and Guitar as basso continuo Instruments Nowadays, ancient music orchestras use lute, theorbo, and guitar as accompanime […]
Handel: “Rinaldo” / René Jacobs, Vivica Genaux First performed in London in 1711, this hit opera was performed 53 […]
The Road to equal temperament What was the meaning of “Wohltemperierte” in Bach’s so-called “Wohltemp […]
Handel: Harpsichord Suites / Colin Tilney et al. It must be 50 years ago that I became a complete Handel fan with this histor […]
Pergolesi: La serva padrona / Vito Clemente, Tommaso Traetta Chamber Orchestra, et al. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php […]
Mass in B minor / Gustav Leonhardt and others The one I currently have is by Gustav Leonhardt, Joshua Rifkin, Robert King, Ma […]
Christmas Oratorio / John Eliot Gardiner, Masaakisuzuki Christmas Oratorio / John Eliot Gardiner, Masaaki Suzuki There is a t […]
JJohn Passion / La Petite Bande Of course it is a wonderful performance. However, I don’t usually listen to it very oft […]
Matthew Passion / Gustav Leonhardt, La Petite Band There is no other recording of the “Matthew Passion” that is h […]
With very few exceptions, Bach’s vocal music was written for boy sopranos, not female sopranos. In those days, women di […]
Handel: Messiah / Christopher Hogwood / Ton Koopman / Edward Higginbottom Merry Christmas, everybody.Christmas is a time of y […]
Goldberg Variations / Helmut Walcha etc. Bach performed at least three miracles in his life. The first miracle was the “ […]
Vivaldi： “The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni)” / François Lazarevitch et al. Now, let’s take a look at V […]
The Complete Bach Organ Works / Helmut Walcha / Ton Koopman Bach’s organ works are numbered from the Trio Sonata of BWV […]
The Well-Tempered Clavier Complete / Helmut Walcha It was from Helmut Walcha’s records that I learned of many of Bach&# […]
Sonata and Partita for Unaccompanied Violin / Lucy van Dael This is my favorite performance of this piece. I also have Sigisw […]
Rameau: The complete works for Clavecin / Kenneth Gilbert / Scott Ross etc. I like Rameau’s clavecin pieces because the […]
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Unaccompanied Cello Suites / Yo-Yo Ma I mainly listen to his recordings released in 1997. There is nothing better than this a […]
Musical Offering / Karl Richter I’ve listened to a lot of records of this work. And this was the first one. Great perfo […]
The Art of Fugue / Karl Munchinger I’ve listened to all kinds of performances of The Art of Fugue, but this is the firs […]