Bach, Böhm: Music for Weddings and Other Festivities (2012)

This collection of oddities from Bach's family and circle is capped by a real curiosity: the Quodlibet, BWV 524, of J.S. Bach himself. This work, incompletely preserved, apparently captures something of what went on when the Bach clan, numerous indeed, held one of their yearly parties. Essentially they seem to have improvised couplets of humorous nonsense poetry, combining German, Latin, and occasionally bits of what seems to have been the dialect of Bach's native Thuringia region. Perhaps music too was part of this ... Read More

This collection of oddities from Bach's family and circle is capped by a real curiosity: the Quodlibet, BWV 524, of J.S. Bach himself. This work, incompletely preserved, apparently captures something of what went on when the Bach clan, numerous indeed, held one of their yearly parties. Essentially they seem to have improvised couplets of humorous nonsense poetry, combining German, Latin, and occasionally bits of what seems to have been the dialect of Bach's native Thuringia region. Perhaps music too was part of this improvisation; it's not clear exactly what Bach contributed to what you hear here, but it would seem that he fit the poetry into elaborated versions of the music the group would have made up on the spot. The result is a nearly indescribable series of satires, musical puns, dirty jokes, and more, all of which may be entirely unlike the solemnly glorious Bach you know and love, but which nevertheless sheds light on his peculiar genius. The Quodlibet is not often recorded, but true Bach... Read Less

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