{"id":12947,"date":"2013-06-08T08:54:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T13:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=12947"},"modified":"2013-06-08T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T13:54:57","slug":"weekend-watch-and-listen-the-beating-heart-and-a-soul-underneath-the-wig-of-j-s-bach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/06\/08\/weekend-watch-and-listen-the-beating-heart-and-a-soul-underneath-the-wig-of-j-s-bach\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend watch and listen: The &#8216;beating heart and a soul underneath the wig&#8217; of J.S. Bach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12951\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/Artemis_Quartet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12951\" alt=\"Artemis Quartet (Molina Visuals photo).\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/Artemis_Quartet.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/Artemis_Quartet.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/Artemis_Quartet-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artemis Quartet (Molina Visuals photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two unrelated videos &#8212; one of a concert, the other a documentary &#8212; provide wonderful, fresh insights on the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach. In John Eliot Gardiner&#8217;s words, they &#8220;find a soul and a beating heart underneath that wig&#8221; we see in paintings and statues.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first is of a moving recital this past Wednesday by the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artemisquartet.com\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis Quartet<\/a> at the Louvre Auditorium in Paris. The middle of the programme is given over to Astor Piazzolla&#8217;s <em>Suite del Angel<\/em>, interspersed with transcriptions of pieces by J.S. Bach, starting with the opening section of the <em>Art of the Fugue<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As improbable as this juxtaposition sounds, it works beautifully, shining favourable light on both Bach and Piazzolla. It&#8217;s like pairing a Riesling with a Roquefort sauce; magical things happen.<\/p>\n<p>The recital begins and ends in passionately drawn interpretations of great works by Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Schubert.<\/p>\n<p>The recital is streaming for free, in HD, on medici.tv <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medici.tv\/#!\/artemis-quartet-mendelssohn-schubert-auditorium-du-louvre-2013\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second is an excellent new 90-minute BBC documentary, <em>Bach: A Passionate Life<\/em>, hosted and largely shaped by Gardiner, the great, engaging English conductor and Bach specialist.<\/p>\n<p>The Artemis reveals Bach&#8217;s flesh and blood through musical juxtaposition alone, Gardiner does the same with carefully chosen words and musical clips that tell the composer&#8217;s full life story and the forces that shaped his music:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UiQbppQq54E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>A big thanks to Stephanie Martin for pointing this documentary out.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two unrelated videos &#8212; one of a concert, the other a documentary &#8212; provide wonderful, fresh insights on the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach. In John Eliot Gardiner&#8217;s words, they &#8220;find a soul and a beating heart underneath that wig&#8221; we see in paintings and statues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,10,11,76,19,23,27,36,37,42,1,66],"tags":[6451,377,395,473,1061,1653,1755,2002,2178,6475],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/Artemis_Quartet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-3mP","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12947"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}