Cello Suite no 3, in C major – Bach
“Narcissus“ (c.1599)
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what struck me about this most extraordinary
performance of Bach’s Third Cello Suite was
nothing to do with the Suite itself, but with
the work of the camera, right out of
Caravaggio, I thought, a bona fide Baroque
artist also, what could the cameraman have
known
stark contrasts, an absolute focus on the
subject without much set decoration, no
consideration for extraneous, though
perhaps effective, decorative elements
to cloud the pictorial issue
this is not at all Bach, incidentally, who
relies on accompaniment, feeder notes,
to shed light on the essential melody,
often even nearly indistinguishable
from the main statement
both are considered Baroque, Bach,
Caravaggio, but I won’t be getting into
it right now, it’s a long, and tortuous
story
otherwise note, indeed, in Bach, the
reiteration of clusters of music, forward
propulsions, with incremental tonal
variations, moving the melody forward,
something lost during the later, more
frivolous, Classical Period, but recovered
eventually, two generations down, by
Beethoven, kind of like children resemble
their grandparents much more than they
do their actual folks
eventually that becomes Minimalism, see,
for instance, Steve, “Different Trains“,
Reich
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