Johann Sebastian Bach - Most beautiful melodies DVD 2003 Classicgold collection / Performed by Wolfgang van Eyck / Art Media

UPC 8716718714734

REGION 0 PAL DVD 

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: Dolby Digital 2.0

Total Runtime: 47 minutes

English Summary:

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has generally been regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.

The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach. After being orphaned at age 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical formation in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen and, for longer stretches of time, at courts in Weimar, where he expanded his organ repertory, and Köthen, where he was mostly engaged with chamber music. From 1723 he was employed as Thomaskantor (cantor at St. Thomas) in Leipzig. He composed music for the principal Lutheran churches of the city, and for its university's student ensemble Collegium Musicum. From 1726 he published some of his keyboard and organ music. In Leipzig, as had happened during some of his earlier positions, he had difficult relations with his employer, a situation that was little remedied when he was granted the title of court composer by his sovereign, Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, in 1736. In the last decades of his life he reworked and extended many of his earlier compositions. He died of complications after eye surgery in 1750 at the age of 65.

Tracklist / Song list:

01. Italienisches Konzert, BWV 971, 1. Satz
02. 2. Satz Andante
03. 3. Satz Presto
04. 1 C-Dur BWV 772
05. Two-Part Invention No. 4 d-moll BWV 775
06. 8 - F-Dur BWV 779
07. Two-Part Invention No. 13 - a-moll BWV 784
08. Two-Part Invention No. 14 - Bb-Dur BWV 785
09. Wohltemperiertes Kalvier Teil 1 Praeludium C-Dur
10. Fuge C-Dur
11. Praeludium c-moll
12. Fuge c-moll
13. Sinfonia 3 D-Dur BWV 789
14. Sinfonia 4 d-moll BWV 790
15. Toccata d-moll BWV 565 (Orgel)
16. Fuge d-moll BWV 565 (Orgel)
17. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: Menuet
18. Marche
19. Menuet
20. Menuet
21. Musette