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Back To Bach

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Conductor, pianist and one-liner machine Hans van Bulow called Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier the "Old Testament" of music (Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonatas were the "New"). This week at 10 am (new time!) on Hammered! we explore Bach's far-reaching influence on contemporary piano music by returning to the source.

Especially as we recover from the aural "food coma" of last month's savory musical riches, a stylistic cleanse only seems prudent. This isn't to say, however, that Bach's music, with all its directness and clarity, isn't also pretty mavericky when you get down to it, as it is in one way or another the catalyst -- as Bulow suggests -- for so much future music.

Tune in all week at 10 am for a treasure trove of contemporary keyboard music, all framed at the beginning of each hour by a JSB-brand masterpiece. We will not only have Toccatas, Partitas, Preludes and Fugues and Cappricios from the great master but also those by Stefan Wolpe (his Three-Part Toccata), Hans Werner Henze, Arvo Part, Dimitri Shostakovich (Bach freak), Alfred Schnittke and many many more.

What piece by JSB is for you the most forward-looking?


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