jsbach
duration: 1h10
venue:
Teatro Ribeiro da Conceição, Lamego (Portugal)
I believe love stories are like train rides. When I see all those travelers sometimes I wish I could be one. Why do you think there are so many waiting in pier? Some stand by: trainspotting. And for them ghosts are everywhere.
There are those who catch the train, sometimes the wrong one, sometimes the right one.
When arriving late for departure a few try to jump in to the already moving train: they slip, fall and get hurt.
Between idyls and ghosts the trains ride. On side of each wagon a
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is considered by many as the worker of the great synthesis of western music until the 18th century. His music reaches to the core of what so far had been the western culture. A complete man: northener and southerner, sacred and profane, tragic and joyous.
As of that date, the ancien regime crumbled and revolutions sprouted everywhere. Eager to claim their place, they centrifuged the good and the bad of "yore": proclaiming new truths that promised the same of the former but without their pathos.
What has this to do with Bach? Everything and also nothing. The important is what remains. Almost everything passes by.
Bach's music remains!
I play solo a partita and with harpsichordist Nuno Oliveira a transcription of Sonata BWV 1016 in E Major.
