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Re: Si! Hedonism! You hit the nail on the head!



Bob "Elmer" wrote:

>And although I enjoy Bach's music enormously, his austerity,
>his responsibility, his strict ideas of religion and behavior tend to
>put me off. It's easy to find Mozart music that is pure "fun" -- it's
>very hard to find any Bach that anyone could say, "Isn't this a
>lot of fun!"
 
Hmm.  Doch!
 
Cello suite #3 in C, the way Casals played it. 
 
First movement of D-major keyboard concerto, the way Gould played it. 
 
Last movement of D-major gamba sonata, the way Rose and Gould played it.
 
"Grosser Herr, o starker Koenig" and "Floesst, mein Heiland, floesst dein Namen" (with the echoes) from the Christmas Oratorio.
 
Physically playing Contrapunctus 11 from the Art of Fugue, finally really nailing it after weeks and months of hard work.
 
Last few movements of the keyboard Partita in A minor.
 
Playing the end of the keyboard Toccata in D major where it suddenly starts going twice as fast.
 
The "Rejouissance" at the end of the orchestral Suite #4 in D.
 
The Coffee Cantata.
 
The "postal carrier" fugue in the Capriccio in B-flat.
 
The Fantasia in C minor, Bach's Scarlattian whizbang.
 
Or some of the organ works: to quote Charles E Ives, "Playing organ pedals is almost as much fun as playing baseball."
 
Bradley Lehman, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl
Dayton VA