Sonic Asymmetry

Johannes Sebastian Bach: “Badinerie”

ヨハネス・セバスチャン・バッハ：「バディネリエ」

TIME COMMITMENT: 2 minutes

Essentially a jocular dance, this is a showpiece for solo flutists, extracted from Orchestra Suite no.2 in B minor.  A nimble, laconic, scherzo-like structure is however presented with a tempo only suited for the most agile of the courtiers.  Like a childlike, droll pamphlet of grave consequences, it is subverted in the second version by a youthful James Galway.

MUSIC

INFO

https://www.redlandssymphony.com/pieces/suite-no-2-in-b-minor-bwv-1067

A REFLECTION

Orpheus with his lute made trees, 

And the mountain tops that freeze, 

Bow themselves when he did sing:

To his music plants and flowers 

Ever sprung; as sun and showers 

There had made a lasting spring. 

William Shakespeare: “Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees”