3/12/2024 0 Comments Bach 2000 teldec![]() ![]() Bach shows every sign, in the continual revisions he made to his scores (even after they were published), of having a quite exceptional level of self-criticism as Forkel wrote in his early biography of the composer: ‘I have often felt both surprise and delight at the means he employed to make, little by little, the faulty good, the good better, and the better perfect.’ Surveying his entire output over a concentrated period for my Faber Pocket Guide to Bach was an almost frightening experience because of the sheer sustained quality of Bach’s inspiration across his decades of tirelessly creative work. ![]() Is any single composer’s output more overwhelming in its intensity and depth than that of Johann Sebastian Bach? True, he wrote no opera (though many would hold the St Matthew and St John Passions and some of the secular cantatas to achieve that sense of drama), but the scope of his inspiration is dauntingly wide.
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