Johann Sebastian Bach

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A group to appreciate the Music and Lutheran symbolism and Theology of Johann Sebastian Bach. Please feel free to post videos articles and discussions about Bach.

Website: http://www.bach-leipzig.de
Members: 18
Latest Activity: May 5

Edmund Jacobs plays the Bach's Chaconne

http://youtu.be/kVyg1ezUc4c

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Bach Performances 47 Replies

Let's move the Bach performance videos here from Comments to make viewing/listening easier.

Started by James Robertson. Last reply by Suzee May 5.

JS Bach Writing ..... Jeremiah 16:16 2 Replies

See now, I will send out many fishers, saith the Lord, whose work is to catch them. And then I will many hunters send also, whose work is to catch them on all the mountains and on all the highlands…Continue

Started by Suzee. Last reply by Zane Zirkle Apr 23.

Welcome new Members to the Bach Group. Glen Gould plays Bach Partita # 2 1 Reply

This is a youtube video that every Bach Fan should watch.Extracts from "The art of Piano" documentary show Glenn Gould playing J.S.Bach's Partita #2 Here is the Link:…Continue

Started by Zane Zirkle. Last reply by Suzee Apr 20.

"J.S. Bach" Craig Parton Issues Etc July 2005

http://www.kfuoam.org/ie_archive_jul05.htm Issues, Etc. Thursday, July 28KFUO Host:…Continue

Started by Suzee Jan 3.

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Comment by Rev. Jody R. Walter on December 29, 2010 at 7:09pm: I find it fascinating that the CG crowd complains about "Bach" as though he wrote our hymnal. Yet, when you actually confront them real Bach they're completely flumaxed. They've never actually heard it before. BTW, I am happy to see that more Bach settings have made it into LSB.

Comment by Zane Zirkle on December 30, 2010 at 8:37am: Yes you are right. If you look at the early Leipzig Hymnals are full Bach's corals. He is my greatest influence as a composer and he wrote J.J. Help me Jesus at the beginning of his work and at the end he wrote S.D.G. To the glory of God alone. His music has been abandoned by the Lutheran Church world wide with exceptions of a few places on earth: St. Thomas, Leipzig, Frauenkirche, Dresden and a Elca Church in Chicago St. Luke's on Belmont. My Synod LCMS should do more to revive the Bach church music on a national level. The excuses are it's too complicated, no one will understand it etc.. are all Bunk. One of the greatest composers of all time wrote for the Lutheran Church and we ignore it. Worldwide music schools study him but our own Church bodies decide to write it off as a musical tool to lead people to the greatness of God's music.

Comment by Rev. Jody R. Walter on December 30, 2010 at 8:39am: Ironically, other churches, like the Presbyterian Church in America are using Bach with great frequency.

Comment by Zane Zirkle on December 30, 2010 at 8:52am: Yes, What are we doing by not expressing the greatest music written for the Lutheran Church.

Comment by Rev. Jody R. Walter on December 30, 2010 at 6:50pm: Then people wonder why their liturgical church is so deadly dull.

Comment by Suzee on December 31, 2010 at 7:18am: http://www.last.fm/music/Johann+Sebastian+Bach/+videos

Comment by Suzee on December 31, 2010 at 9:15am: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/a/c/bach_js.htm

Comment by Suzee on December 31, 2010 at 9:17am: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/r/brightes.htm
BRIGHTEST AND BEST OF THE SONS OF THE MORNING

Comment by Dr. George C. Adams on December 31, 2010 at 1:02pm: I spent several hours on Christmas Day listening to J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio in a performance by Concentus Musicus Wien. They play instruments that were made during Bach's day or are faithful copies of those period instruments. The tempos, phrasing and tone colors are so colorful and lively that it is impossible not to get caught up in the music. As a German speaker, the text is very dear to me and many times I found myself moved nearly to tears by the power of the message of God's abiding love for us and by the glory of the music.

The music fairly dances for joy in so many places: in others, it is awefully contemplative. It is the perfect music for the season!