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RE: L.A. Guitar Quartet - 4 Variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Music
Synth? Synth?? I'm only beginning to develop an appreciation for it. It took me years just to build up tolerance :) - when Queen went synth, their unique sound went downhill, I thought.
"Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" - our daughter played it to death after finding her favorite version of it on youtube:
Great version! I love their visual presentation of it, which I think helps even non-musicians to appreciate what they are hearing more . . . or perhaps that's just me.
I did the same thing to my mom, though no YouTube back then, I commandeered her Renaissance and Baroque boxsets from the Time Life Classical series, which actually had an excellent version as well, though I'm sorry to say I don't recall the name of the organist. But whoever it was played this with amazing feeling and depth.
It still blows my mind to think of comments by JS Bach's contemporaries, who said that he could play better just using the pedals than most organists could using both hands AND the pedals. That's one of my first points in time, if I am ever able to time travel, to go back and listen to him play this in its entirety, along with Brandenburg Nos. 2 and 3. And a zillion of his other compositions.
He is still my favorite classical composer, hands down. I'm a sucker for counterpoint. ;-)
His son, JC Bach was excellent as well, but JS Bach's compositions spoke to me in a way few others have. I learned to play Jethro Tull's take on his Bouree as a teen as a result. ;-)
Here's another one she listened to a LOT: