Concerto No. 2 in A minor
Sep. 20th, 2004 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beige_alertOne of the first CDs I bought way back when I first got a CD player in high school was Telarc’s recording of Bach played by Michael Murray on the organs at First Congregational Church in Los Angeles. I was listening to this again recently and it always seems to bring up some high school memories, particularly the Concerto No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 593. This is an arrangement for solo pipe organ by Bach of a concerto for two violins by Vivaldi. The last Allergo part in particular seems to me to be something that hardly seems within human capability to play, solo, in real time, but Michael Murray certainly can. Bach, of course, was a very skillful organist himself.
The rather more downtempo Adagio in the middle has a very different feel. It calls up in me vaguely defined but strong feelings of loneliness. I recall walking through fields alone listening to it on my portable CD player. (That CD player even by modern standards was about as small as a CD player can be, but it needed what now seems like a gigantic battery pack for portable use.) There were certainly some lonely periods in high school, and I think this slow and, in my mind, a bit sad, piece in particular got associated with some of them.
The rather more downtempo Adagio in the middle has a very different feel. It calls up in me vaguely defined but strong feelings of loneliness. I recall walking through fields alone listening to it on my portable CD player. (That CD player even by modern standards was about as small as a CD player can be, but it needed what now seems like a gigantic battery pack for portable use.) There were certainly some lonely periods in high school, and I think this slow and, in my mind, a bit sad, piece in particular got associated with some of them.
