95904 - The perfect score
N. Lygeros
When the day has no meaning because it represents a waste of time, because there is no capacity to support the work and you have to find a new way to overpass all the obstructions, it’s always a good idea to valorize a perfect score of Bach. It’s a way to see his written beauty in a society where the noise was everywhere. But now this noise is no longer here even if we have in our minds the music of Bach. His organ works are certainly impressive but at the same time some of them are also cute and human. With his score, you can easily imagine some difficulties of his days and it’s possible to discover how he fixed some problems to get a result which is still present in Humanity. That’s why it’s always a huge pleasure to have in our hands the editions of Bärenreiter which are not only beautiful but also precious for any musician, any human who wants to study his work in depth. It’s nice to start with the Little Organ Book and listen to the Six Chorales and the Chorale-Partitas with our eyes, with our fingers and finally with our ears, to understand the magnificence of his way to write music. He wasn’t free to do everything and it was especially forbidden for him to write any opera which is of course in the best case a pity and in the worst a barbarity but he did the job which now this work without noise to his gift to Humanity, always alone with it.