Bach

Bach's been hitting me deeper lately. I'm finding I'm hearing it in new ways.

His second orchestral suite has always seemed rather heavy to me, and dark. It has a very ruminating kind of feel to it. But tonight it struck me with a purely contemplative feel -- I think that the orchestrations I've heard of it lend it its epic heaviness, and that a smaller ensemble could lend it a merely reflective air. It would still likely have a bit of weight to it -- I can't help but feel the unassailable march of time throughout it -- but perhaps not the darkness. Perhaps it's just important.

The prelude of his fifth cello suite seems like it could turn into a very nice dance theme. Just needs a drum machine.

Is BWV 1052 his 3rd violin concerto? Regardless, it wasn't on my radar ever, really, save that I'm convinced that Muse stole the beginning of the third movement for Exo-Politics. But the first movement is just nuts. The tension he builds, and just the raw power in the violin. It seizes me!