| The splendid music on this CD's a fine vindication of Bach's teaching, with its emphasis on thorough bass and chorales. |
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| When already thirty, he decided on a return to basics, busying himself with contrapuntal puzzles, fugues and harmonization of chorales. |
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| I do have to caution that the booklet notes and texts for the chorales are in French and German only. |
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| Most of the firmly harmonized chorales were impressive, as were those with colourful instrumental interludes. |
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| This splendid music is a fine vindication of Bach's teaching, with its emphasis on thorough bass and chorales. |
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| Now I am hoping to perform the Chaconne with chorales on Good Friday in our small church. |
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| Fervent disputes were aroused by prayer in the vernacular, chorales after Protestant models, mixed choirs, and organ-playing. |
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| Although also without recitative, there were arioso pieces and instrumental symphonies, with choruses which included chorales. |
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| If the Reformation chorales were anything, they were didactic and homiletical. |
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| Essentially, all music historians are trained in tonal harmony by studying Bach chorales and classical music, but music before 1700 worked under rather different assumptions. |
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| Three of the Latin choruses are directly followed by Lutheran chorales. |
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| Lutheran chorales were so often the basis of Bach's counterpoint, and Wagner devised for his Nuremberg mastersingers a counterpoint that was both traditional and contemporary. |
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| Time seems to stand still in the chorales, which are sung by the Harvard and Radcliffe groups with an honesty that precludes boredom and concerns about stylistic refinement. |
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| The recording was inspired by the research of Helga Thoene, a musicologist who argues that Bach alluded to chorales in the Chaconne from the second partita for solo violin. |
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| While not the best way to introduce damper pedaling techniques, four-voiced chorales are highly appropriate for reinforcing or testing established pedaling techniques. |
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| Selections include a variety of chorales, praeludiums, a toccata, a canzonetta and two Magnificat settings, all by Buxtehude. |
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| The Lutheran chorale became the sure spiritual foundation of Bach's output, no more tellingly than in the Eighteen Chorales Bach revised towards the end of his life. |
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