Recordings

I posted some recordings by Yehudi Menuhin because I wanted to quickly add recordings to my posts. But in fact, I think Menuhin uses too much vibrato and is too mellow, at least during the first movement. A recording by Milstein suited me better, so I replaced Menuhin with Milstein for the G-minor Adagio.

On YouTube, I found a recording of Joseph Joachim playing the G-minor Adagio in 1903. His was the first recording of solo Bach for violin. He didn't record all 6 sonatas and partitas, just two movements. I'm happy and amazed that in 2009 we are still listening to his 1903 recording and that it has found its way to the internet.

What I would like best is to record myself playing Bach and post that. How better to illustrate what I think about Bach than by playing it myself? I could play examples of things I'm discussing even if I don't record entire movements. The Bach Season moves so quickly! By the time I get all the components of this blog together (recordings, photos of the sheet music to illustrate points I'm making), I'll be quite far into the work.

The thing about blogs is that, though previous posts stay in the archives, people generally don't go back to see if you have changed or edited a previous post. People read posts once, soon after they are published. So it would not be a great use of time for me to go back and add lots of annotations and recordings to previous posts. Better to work on making the next posts as thorough and interesting as possible