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The Bach Cantatas Website celebrates its 7th anniversary |
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Aryeh Oron wrote (January 4, 2008):The Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) was launched in its current form and address on December 30, 2000. The BCW is located at: http://www.bach-cantatas.com Description: The Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) is a comprehensive site covering all aspects of J.S. Bach's cantatas and his other vocal works. The BCW contains discussions and detailed discographies of each cantata and other vocal works, performers and general topics. The BCW also contains texts and translations, scores, music examples, articles and interviews, and over 4,800 short biographies of performers of Bach's vocal works and players of his keyboard works, as well as of poets & composers associated with Bach. There are also other relevant resources such as the Lutheran church year, database of chorale texts & melodies and their authors, detailed discographies of Bach's solo keyboard works and piano transcriptions and their performers, reviews and discussions of Bach's non-vocal works, books and movies on Bach, terms and abbreviations, schedule of concerts of Bach's vocal works, guide to Bach tour, Bach memorabilia, thousands of links to other relevant resources. The BCW is an international collective project, being compiled from various postings about the subject, most of which have been sent to the Bach Mailing Lists. I would like to use this opportunity to thank the numerous contributors to the discussions in the Bach Mailing Lists and some other lists, whose messages are compiled into the pages of the BCW. Their names are mentioned accordingly above each quoted message. I would also like to thank the many Bach lovers around the world who have sent me material to be included in the BCW, such as articles, translation of cantata texts, recording details, biographies, photos, music examples, links to other sites, etc. Their names are mentioned accordingly in the relevant pages. There have been many improvements & additions to the BCW last year. The major additions were: A. Comprehensive Discographies of ALL Bach's Solo Keyboard works BWV 772-994. B. Piano Transcriptions of Bach's Works and Bach-inspired Piano Works (PT) - Lists of all known PT & Comprehensive Discographies. C. Comprehensive Bach Discographies of artists who have recorded Bach's Solo Keyboard Works & Bach's Piano Transcriptions. D. Comprehensive Discographies of Complete (or near complete) Sets of Bach's Organ Works. E. Bach Memorabilia Section (including Bach Stamps). For more info, please take a look at: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Topics/Newsletter-2007.htm I am encouraged by the positive feedback the BCW is getting from all over the world. Many of the feedback messages from last year can be read at the page: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Topics/About-2007.htm I continue to look forward to receiving your comments (corrections, suggestions, improvements, etc.) about the BCW. The instructions how to send me comments, appear in the following page: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/How.htm I wish you all another Great and Happy Bach Year! |
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BCW - Changes & Additions |
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Aryeh Oron wrote (February 12, 2008):I would like to update you about some of the recent changes and additions to the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW): a. Home Page: A new look See: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/ b. Navigation Bars: The upper and lower navigation bars, which appear on every page of the BCW, have been updated and now include links to the new sections of Memorabilia, Transcriptions and Movies (the last one is still in progress). c. Bach Family: Bios of all the musicians in the Bach Family (the Wechmar line) have been added. They are sorted by Name, Number and Family Tree. See: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Family-Name.htm d. Memorabilia section: Please pay attention to two important additions: - Bach Portraits (most of the material has been provided by Thomas Braatz) See: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Memo/R-Paint.htm - Hommage a Bach: Tribute to Bach & Bach-inspired Art Works (most of the material has been provided by Teddy Kaufman) "From the end of the 19th century until today, Bach's influence in modern painting and in music has been continuous. Numerous artists - like Kandinsky, Kupka, Delaunay, Van Doesburg, and Klee - most of them protagonists of non-objective painting - found a model and inspiration in Bach's scores." See: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Memo/R-Hommage.htm I hope you like these changes & additions and find them useful. |
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