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Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach
21 Feb 2024 23 published claims 2 attributable people
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“For example, Kunst der Fuge, the Art of Fugue — we don’t know why he has really written it or in what kind of situation.”
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“Actually, I’m very grateful to be a Calvinist because Calvin was probably the — I don’t know.”
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“From one side, he must have been very happy to compose the organ works, the instrumental works, also secular cantatas and so on, but probably he wished to do more work in the Lutheran world, or the Lutheran church and so on. That’s why he moved to Leipzig, I think.”
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“Quite a mysterious feel, I think. I’m trying to understand, and I’m trying to come closer to a sense of Bach’s mind, but actually, it is very, very difficult.”
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“Beatles, [laughter] I don’t know much about that. The Beatles — really, I don’t know.”
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“Actually, I think that many people can appreciate that kind of message from the Bible as well — not only Bach’s music but from the Bible and so on.”
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“Hmmm, probably a little different. American audience are more friendly, I think.”
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“St. Matthew’s Passion, he performed at least three times, I think. St. John, four or five times, I’m not sure.”
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“Actually, we don’t know yet what’s happening now. I’m so happy to be working with BIS all the time, 30 years now.”
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“Not only modern, but the machine-like notes by notes [mimics sound] and so on. That is really not acceptable anymore, but at that time, that made, probably, a lot of excitement for the audience, and this is very nice, I think.”
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“I think that was Bach’s intention, to compile the six concertos as one collection, but probably by then, he had composed many concertos.”
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“Only thing, the choir has text. So that’s much better than with the organ, I think.”
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“I think the music can work afterwards to the individuals according to their situation or thoughts.”
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“He has recorded the entire set of Bach sacred cantatas, which in my collection amounts to, I think, 55 compact discs.”
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“Actually, I was completely fascinated by the organ itself. That’s why I started to play organ, and I got lessons when I was a teenager before university.”
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“After that, next project is a couple of organ concerts in Japan because in Kobe, in the Shoin chapel, where we have made all the CD recordings — and that organ that’s built by the French organ builder called Marc Garnier, that was exactly the 40-year Jubilee this year.”
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“I think to make a recording is very interesting because that is quite an important experience for all of us, all of our colleagues.”
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“80. Well, I don’t recommend that for the beginner because that is too complicated.”
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“Yes, I enjoy sometimes, but probably, there are plenty of other specialists for contemporary music, I think.”
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“I think we belong to a quite different generation, but at that time, it must have been very right and very stimulating to do the Bach music.”
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“There are one or two — the recording of organ playing, his organ playing. That was a little strange, I thought, but a piano — for example, Goldberg Variations — that’s a really fabulous recording, I think.”
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“I don’t know what is contemporary, but I listen to Stravinsky, for example. That’s one of my favorite composers.”
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“Because I prefer personally the historical organs, the original organs, like in northern Germany or France or wherever.”
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