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Bach's cantata was performed 300 years ago, by occasion. The youtube is with Gerlinde Sämann, remember? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:48, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: you bet I do ... not just because of her blindness but also because of the tea rodent incident! :-)Graham87 (talk) 03:22, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- And on listening to the link, her aria was my favourite (not just because of her amazing singing, like all the singers in that performance), but also the oboe parts and the general feel of that movement ... sublime! And apparently, per the Youtube comments, she's reading the Braille music on stage during the performance. I think Braille music works best for singers because their hands are free to read while performing ... for just about every other instrument, we have to memorise everything! Speaking of which, yesterday I discovered an became obsessed with an absolutely lovely little piece that seems within my ability to play ... Grieg's "Arietta" from his Lyric Pieces! That piece along with Tchaikovsky's "Morning Prayer" from his Children's Album, inspired by the concert I attended two months ago, will be the next pieces I try once I have the bourrées from Bach's 1st English Suites under my fingers (they're getting there, but are trickier than I expected ... I'm not aiming to play them as fast as that recording though)! Graham87 (talk) 04:14, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- I often told others that tea rodent story ;) - Yes, she's reading Braille, and she is free to "look" at the conductor at the same time (which she does) while we can't. - Did you get from my talk that a friend sings (bass) in this? (Before the livestream started they had the choir sing Bach motets! - speech at minute 18, music 21, first a new a cappella piece by Tania León, Requiem 31) - Good plans for the piano! The French Suites are easier but the B-flat English one is just great! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:45, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Wow re everything. Nope, I didn't notice the link on your talk; sounds cool ... will check it out. Yes, a slight majority of the Bach suite movements I've learnt are from the French Suites (I actually got a hard-copy Braille version of all of them made for me from some digital files written in Braille ASCII ... because out of the sets of Bach suites, the French Suites have the most material that I can play). But I've been trying some movements from the English Suites that I really like that are within my technical ability (the prelude and bourrées from the 1st in A major, plus the allemande and sarabande from the 3rd one in G minor ... which I learnt about from some audio files on Commons that I added to Wikipedia in 2007), along with the prelude from the first Partita in B-flat (I studied the minuets from that partita as a kid as part of the Suzuki method, but was exempted from playing the gigue because of all the hand-crossing). Re the French Suites: so far I've learnt everything in the 1st French Suite in D minor except the courante and the gigue (the allemande is particularly delightful), the air from No. 2 in C minor, the allemande from No. 4 in E-flat major, and the gavotte from No. 5 in G major. Also, while we're on the subject of blindness and classical piano, I can't *hnot* mention Nobuyuki Tsujii, who is amazing! Graham87 (talk) 07:06, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- I often told others that tea rodent story ;) - Yes, she's reading Braille, and she is free to "look" at the conductor at the same time (which she does) while we can't. - Did you get from my talk that a friend sings (bass) in this? (Before the livestream started they had the choir sing Bach motets! - speech at minute 18, music 21, first a new a cappella piece by Tania León, Requiem 31) - Good plans for the piano! The French Suites are easier but the B-flat English one is just great! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:45, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- And on listening to the link, her aria was my favourite (not just because of her amazing singing, like all the singers in that performance), but also the oboe parts and the general feel of that movement ... sublime! And apparently, per the Youtube comments, she's reading the Braille music on stage during the performance. I think Braille music works best for singers because their hands are free to read while performing ... for just about every other instrument, we have to memorise everything! Speaking of which, yesterday I discovered an became obsessed with an absolutely lovely little piece that seems within my ability to play ... Grieg's "Arietta" from his Lyric Pieces! That piece along with Tchaikovsky's "Morning Prayer" from his Children's Album, inspired by the concert I attended two months ago, will be the next pieces I try once I have the bourrées from Bach's 1st English Suites under my fingers (they're getting there, but are trickier than I expected ... I'm not aiming to play them as fast as that recording though)! Graham87 (talk) 04:14, 5 May 2025 (UTC)