Discussing Bach 6 (December 2023)

Published on 5 December 2023

The Future of Bach Sources

Editors: Andrew Frampton, Ruth Tatlow

An edited live discussion, recorded on 14 June 2023, with Manuel Bärwald, Andrew Frampton,  Ruth Tatlow, and Bettina Varwig 

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Editorial Introduction (full text)

Authorised Transcript (full text)

Further reading

Ruth Tatlow, On Bach’s Church Cantatas (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Bettina Varwig, ‘Embodied Invention: Bach at the Keyboard’, in Rethinking Bach, ed. Bettina Varwig (New York; Oxford University Press, 2021), 115–140

Bettina Varwig, Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology (University of Chicago Press, 2023).

Bettina Varwig, ‘Bach’s Hands’, Bach: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (forthcoming).

Janice B. Stockigt, Andrew Frampton, and Frederic Kiernan, ‘Zelenka, Jan (Lukáš Ignatius) Dismas’, Grove Music Online (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

Selected performances of works referred to in the discussion

Cantata (BWV) 29, ‘Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken’. Netherlands Bach Society, dir. Jos van Veldhoven, 2014, https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-29

Cantata (BWV) 51, ‘Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen’. Chorus and Orchestra of the J. S. Bach-Stiftung, dir. Rudolf Lutz, https://www.bachipedia.org/werke/bwv-51-jauchzet-gott-in-allen-landen/

Cantata (BWV) 82, ‘Ich habe genung’. Chorus and Orchestra of the J. S. Bach-Stiftung, dir. Rudolf Lutz, https://www.bachipedia.org/werke/bwv-82-ich-habe-genung/

Cantata (BWV) 196, ‘Der Herr denket an uns’. Netherlands Bach Society, dir. Jos van Veldhoven, 2019, https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-196

Mass in B minor, BWV 232, Netherlands Bach Society, dir. Jos van Veldhoven, 2017, https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-232

Jan Dismas Zelenka, ‘Laudate pueri’, ZWV 81, in Zelenka, Psalmi Varii Separatim Scripti, Ensemble Inégal & Prague Baroque Soloists, dir. Adam Viktora, Nibiru Records, 01652235/DNI165, 2018.

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