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WTF Bach — 157 episodes
147: Is This Cantata Even By Bach?
146: Toccata’s Twin! Double Fugue in F
145: Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196
144: Why (And How) I Became An Organist
143: Special Guest, Emma Smith (University of Oxford)
142: Monster Toccata in F, BWV 540
Classical Music ...Robots.
141: Bach's Orchestral Debut
140a: Passacaglia Supplement
140: PASSACALIA
139: Bach's Second (or Third) Cantata
138: Bach's Very First Cantata
A Classical Musician's Thoughts at a Party
137: Special Guest! Peter Wollny
136: Bach's 12-Tone Fugue (WTC Finale!)
135: H Major! The Final Major (And Tuning It...)
134: 5 Flats, 5 Voices: Bach in B-flat Minor
133: ¿Por qué César Vallejo?
132: The Other Bach Piece You Probably Played
131: Dissecting The Dragon, A Minor Book 1
130: A Double Fugue & A Second Manuscript
129: I Got Rid Of All My Books (11 Years Ago...)
128: Donald Francis Tovey's Well-Tempered
Bach's Birthday is NOT March 31st.
127: How I Memorize Bach (By Ear)
126: What The Instrument Tells You About The Music
125: What Is An Ornament?
(5 Min. Rant) Customer Support Hero
124: Joy is G Major. Book One.
123: The Negroni & 'Paradise Lost'
122: Was F-Sharp Minor, Golgotha?
121: So... What Does 'Well-Tempered' Mean?
120: A Double Canon (4 Parts from 2 Lines)
119: Special Guest! Paul Jacobs
118: How to Practice! (+ Advice for Teens)
117: I Forgot C Minor! BWV 847
116: Chromatic Finale Of The First Half, BWV 857
(5 Min. Rant) How To Twist A Shirt
115: F Major Prelude & Fugue, BWV 856
Why You Should Listen To This Podcast (Ars Podcastica)
Ep. 114: Bach Improvises On His Prelude
113: New Bach Works (!) Heard TODAY
(5 min. Rant) Self-Inflationary Language!
112: E-flat or D-sharp minor?
111: The Blind Organist's Improvisations and Registrations
110: Bach Put A Fugue Inside A Prelude?
109: 'The Swimmer' by John Cheever
108: Bach's D Minor Prelude and Fugue, Book One
107: D Major Fugue, To Dot... or Not?
(6 Min. Rant) Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
106: What is Bach's 'Musical Offering?'
105: Isak Dinesen, 'The Immortal Story'
104: Bach (Almost) Spells His Name in a 5-Voice Triple Fugue
103: The 'Covid Etude' Moral + Tureck’s Hallucination (11 min.)
102: Bach's Most Famous Prelude (& Fugue...) BWV 846
Ep. 101: The Well-Tempered Clavier! Analysis, History, Revisions
(4 Min. Rant) Literally Can't Thank You Enough in Advance
100th Episode! Special Guest: Ton Koopman
Ep. 99: NEW ALBUM - Partitas 1-3
98: Borges, Bach, Barthelme.
97: Bach as A Minor in a minor.
96: Alleluia! Bach's Jubilant Ululation.
95: Bach’s St. John Passion, Which Version?
94: Baroque Keyboardists Weren’t Specialists—They Played Everything
93: The 'Actus Tragicus' BWV 106
92: Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. An Audiobook.
91: MiniSeries (10/10!) The Final Episode
90: MiniSeries (9/10) Revisions Part Two
89: MiniSeries (8/10) A Bachian Fractal
88: MiniSeries (7/10) Canon at MOVING Intervals
87: MiniSeries (6/10) A Sloth Canon
86: MiniSeries (5/10) Canonic Revisions Part One
85: MiniSeries (4/10) Feet & LH, a 7th Apart
Is Pachelbel's Canon Really a Canon?
84: MiniSeries (3/10) A Canon At The Fifth
83: MiniSeries (2/10) Divine Row Row Row Your Boat
82: New MiniSeries! Bach's Christmas Puzzles
81: Bach Whips Out His Dagger.
80: The Urtext Illusion: Textual Variance in Bach's "Aria Variata" BWV 989
79: Passion Music for His Son. F Minor Sinfonia, BWV 795
78: Fantasy & Fugue in C minor BWV 537
77: Anyone Else Getting Married?
76: The 3rd Keyboard Partita (A Crucial Revision)
75: Performer's Commentary, Vol. 3
74: ‘No One Ever Erected a Statue to a Critic’ (Bach vs. Scheibe)
73: ‘Mi Fa, et Fa Mi est tota musica’ (BWV 1078)
71: Performer's Commentary, Vol. 2
70: Bach's Puzzle Canons (Yes, Please.)
69: Performer's Commentary, Vol. 1
68: What Did Bach's Business Card Sound Like?
67: Doubles at the same time as their simples. (Three Albums on Presale Today!)
66: Du Hirte Israel, höre. BWV 104,
65: The Neumeister Chorales (Bach at 15 yrs. old)
64: Introducing, The Flute!
63: Two More Cantatas (1724, Part 3)
62: 2024, An Important Bach Year (Part Two)
2 minutes: P.D.Q. R.I.P.
61: Why Is 2024 An Important Bach Year?
60: My Mini Concert for You
59: The First Double Fugue in History
58: I Play Bach's Table of Ornaments
57: Bach and the Golden Ratio.
56: Bach's Most Joyful Piece? (Chorale Preludes x2)
55: Introducing The Chorale! Chorale Preludes, Four-Part Chorales, &c.
54: The Crab Canon Isn’t a Möbius Strip.
53: Special Guest: Joshua Rifkin. One Voice Per Part
52: Casals, Rostropovich... più allegro
50th Episode! A LIVE Lecture Sponsored by Tonebase
51: The (Other) Goldberg Canons BWV 1087
49: What is Chromaticism? (Albinoni Fugues)
48: The (Other) Goldberg Canons BWV 1087
47: An Encyclopedia and a Fugue
46: What’s a Pythagorean Comma? (Introduction to Temperament)
54: The Prelude in C, BWV846 (à la WTF)
44: What is Bach’s ‘Longest’ Piece?
43: Cantata 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
42: Listener’s Choice, You asked, I talked.
41: What Was the Only Non-British Music at the Queen’s Funeral?
40: What Did Bach Have for Dinner May 3, 1716?
39: Four Chances to Hear Bach Differently
38: Can Computers Teach Us About Bach?
37: The Brandenburg Fifth, BWV 1050
36: Did Bach Compose the 6th Brandenburg to Get Fired? (Nope.)
35: The Brandenburg Fifth: A New Way of Hearing
¡ SEASON TWO !
That‘s a Wrap on The Art of Fugue. (Season one finale 2/2!)
The 14th Fugue in The Art of Fugue. (Season one finale 1/2!)
Special Guest: Christoph Wolff. What else can we learn about Bach?
Bonus: Dictated in Blindness on his Deathbed? The Original Printed Conclusion to The Art of Fugue?
The Fourth Canon in The Art of Fugue: Upside Down, Slowed Down... How Much More Down?
Bonus: The 13th Contrapunctus - in another way (for TWO harpsichords!)
The 13th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: also fugue this mirror a is?
Special Guest: Chris Thile. Man in the Mirror (Fugue)
The 12th Fugue in The Art of Fugue|euguF fo trA ehT ni euguF ht21 ehT?
The Third Canon in The Art of Fugue: Counterpoint at the fifth? Or just a bunch of parallel fifths?
Bonus: I Uploaded a Bach Album as an NFT
The 11th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: A Triple Fugue &... A Possible Anti-Golden-Section?
The Tenth Fugue at the Tenth: Also... What is a Key?
The 9th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: Two Subjects Combined at Two Intervals... Too much?
Special Guest: Jack Stratton (Vulfpeck). Down in a big way... with Bach?
The 8th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: Three Themes, Three voices.
How To Detect Bach B.S. (Bad Scholarship)
Bonus: A Bach Article from 1985
Bonus: Listener’s Choice: You asked, I talked.
The Second Canon in The Art of Fugue: A canon functioning at two simultaneous intervals!?
The 7th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: One theme at three different speeds?
Special Guest: Robert Hill. How does he play Bach?
The 6th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: ’In Stylo Francese’
The 5th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: Our theme finally overlaps itself!
Special Guest: Brad Mehldau. Why does he like Bach?
The First Canon in The Art of Fugue: Where do these pieces belong, and how do they get much more complicated than this?!
Bonus: Bach in Revision. How does Bach improve upon himself?
The 4th Fugue in The Art of Fugue: Where is the golden section? Exchanging the Dux and the Comes
The 2nd/3rd Fugues in The Art of Fugue: What is a Clavichord? Our first countersubject!
Bonus: Contrapunctus I: all screwed up... 11x
The First Fugue in The Art of Fugue: What is a Harpsichord? Eleven entrances?
What Is A Fugue? Who Was J.S. Bach?