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WTF Bach — 147 episodes
139: Bach's Second (or Third) Cantata
138: Bach's Very First Cantata
Inner Monologue: 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 Today, 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
Borges, Bach, Barthelme.
Bach as A Minor in a minor.
Alleluia! Bach's Jubilant Ululation.
Bach’s St. John Passion: Which Version?
Baroque Keyboardists Weren’t Specialists—They Played Everything
The 'Actus Tragicus' BWV 106
Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. An Audiobook.
MiniSeries! 10: The Final Episode
MiniSeries! 9: Revisions Part Two
MiniSeries! 8: A Bachian Fractal
MiniSeries! 7: Canon at MOVING Intervals
MiniSeries! 6: A Sloth Canon
MiniSeries! 5: Canonic Revisions Part One
MiniSeries! 4: Feet & LH, a 7th Apart
Is Pachelbel's Canon Really a Canon?
MiniSeries! 3: A Canon At The Fifth
MiniSeries! 2: Divine Row Row Row Your Boat
MiniSeries! 1: Bach's Christmas Puzzles
Bach Whips Out His Dagger.
The Urtext Illusion: Textual Variance in Bach's "Aria Variata" BWV 989
Passion Music for His Son: The F Minor Sinfonia, BWV 795
Fantasy & Fugue in C minor BWV 537
Anyone Else Getting Married?
The 3rd Keyboard Partita (A Crucial Revision)
Performer's Commentary, Vol. 3
No One Ever Erected a Statue to a Critic (Bach vs. Scheibe)
Mi Fa, et Fa Mi est tota musica (BWV 1078)
Performer's Commentary, Vol. 2
Bach's Puzzle Canons (Yes, Please.)
Performer's Commentary, Vol. 1
What Did Bach's Business Card Sound Like?
Three Albums on Presale Today! (Ever Dance With a Double?)
BWV 104, Du Hirte Israel, höre.
The Neumeister Chorales (Bach at 15 yrs. old)
Introducing: The Flute!
Two More Cantatas (1724, Part 3)
2024. An Important Bach Year (Part Two)
2 minutes: P.D.Q. R.I.P.
Why Is 2024 An Important Bach Year?
My Mini Concert for You
The First Double Fugue in History
I Play Bach's Table of Ornaments
Bach and the Golden Ratio.
Bach's Most Joyful Piece? (Chorale Preludes x2)
Introducing: The Chorale! Chorale Preludes, Four-Part Chorales, &c.
The Crab Canon Isn’t a Möbius Strip. (BWV 1087 Canons Part THREE)
Special Guest: Joshua Rifkin. One Voice Per Part
Casals, Rostropovich... più allegro (Cello Suites!)
50th Episode! A LIVE Lecture Sponsored by Tonebase
The (Other) Goldberg Canons BWV 1087 (Part 2)
What is Chromaticism? (Albinoni Fugues)
The (Other) Goldberg Canons BWV 1087 (Part 1)
An Encyclopedia and a Fugue
What’s a Pythagorean Comma? (Introduction to Temperament)
The Prelude in C, BWV846: New versions, Inverted harmonies and more!
What is Bach’s Longest Piece? (And his Shortest?)
Cantata 147 (Listener’s Choice Part Two)
Listener’s Choice, Part One of Two: You asked, I talked.
What Was the Only Non-British Music at the Queen’s Funeral?
What Did Bach Have for Dinner May 3, 1716? (And Other Documents...)
Four Chances to Hear Bach Differently (MIDI and Musical ’Unbias’ Examples)
How can computers illuminate Bach? (MIDI and Musical ‘unbias’)
The Brandenburg Fifth: A New Way of Hearing It (Part 2)
Did Bach Compose the Sixth Brandenburg to Get Fired? (History of the Brandenburg Concerti)
The Brandenburg Fifth: A New Way of Hearing It (Part 1)
Season TWO! Announcing The Bach Store in GERMANY (and BWV1001 & BWV539...)
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?