Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series….
Your scribe has a musical family and a musical background in all forms of the art. Always keen to embrace new technologies your scribe was one of the first to embark on the CD bandwagon and in recent times have been happy to join the MP3 and on line phenomena. Deep down in my heart of hearts though, I knew that analogue would never fade and up in the attic your scribe managed to store thousands of vinyl albums along with the occasional amplifier and turntable. I resurrected the entire lot a few years ago when I noticed that artists have started releasing 12 inch vinyl albums again…..perhaps for the purists then but certainly it’s all mainstream now. Call me old fashioned but it DOES sound better….just ask Jack White.
Today’s links got me pondering on what is arguably the greatest series of musical pieces performed or released in the past 400 years. I am of course referring to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites. They are a versatile series of what some consider “études” but to musicians these 6 Suites are pure genius in their complexity of emotion and technique. They have been interpreted across all musical instruments and you will often spot them at funerals, cocktail or dinner parties, film soundtracks, weddings and even in the shopping mall!!! The Suites have been recorded by any number of maestri over the years and still manages to be the most honoured of classical music pieces from countless Grammies to being constantly in the top 10 of all music sales in the world…..and yet no one knows the pieces in the mainstream!
Transcript Suite Number 5 in C Minor
Our Main Man JSB
Try them sometime on a quiet early evening (champagne optional) and if possible track down a vinyl copy as well as an excellent book by Eric Siblin “The Cello Suites” ….Your scribes favourite interpretation is by Yo Yo Ma.
Today’s links were acquired in an antique market and were sold to me by a delightful elderly Chinese lady. It was her first sale of the day and we spent some time negotiating and discussion of the links in question. The first sale is of course a “lucky” sale and we agreed a price and she said that these links were “guitar strings or a cello strings or something”…..not quite sure if they are but then again who is to argue with a delightful old Chinese lady in her first sale of the day. They are worn with a tailored cotton white shirt and a Salvatore Ferragamo silk neck tie with cello motifs.
Til Later
ONWARD
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