It takes a lot of verve to dare to play Bach so slowly. The slow pace brings out the beauty and spirituality of JSB, but most students treat his music as a sort of exercise in high-speed “typing,” fearing audience boredom in a soundbite age. “God made time for organists,” was how the famous Bach scholar Charles Marie Widor would put it.
It takes a lot of verve to dare to play Bach so slowly. The slow pace brings out the beauty and spirituality of JSB, but most students treat his music as a sort of exercise in high-speed “typing,” fearing audience boredom in a soundbite age. “God made time for organists,” was how the famous Bach scholar Charles Marie Widor would put it.