Musicon / Music and Literature / Buxtehude, Passacaglia: music that seems to listen to itself

Buxtehude, Passacaglia: music that seems to listen to itself

Posted on the February 9th, 2009 under Music and Literature

When I felt bad I asked Pistorius to play Buxtehude’s passacaglia. Then I would sit in the dusk-filled church completely involved in this unusually intimate, self- absorbed music, music that seemed to listen to itself, that comforted me each time, prepared me more and more to heed my own ::More

Musicon / Music and Literature / The Musical Spirit of Germany

The Musical Spirit of Germany

Posted on the February 8th, 2009 under Music and Literature

I had been to a recital of old church music in the Cathedral, a beautiful, though melancholy, excursion into my past life, to the fields of my youth, the territory of my ideal self. Beneath the lofty Gothic of the church whose netted vaulting swayed with a ghostly life in the play of the sparse ::More