Alan Plummer Guitar

Being a somewhat consistent classical music concert-goer, I must confess to dreading the de rigueur contemporary Australian works that open so many nights. I support the practice one hundred percent. Every so often there is a gem; Elevator Music by…

The previous three parts of this small series on J.S. Bach leads to this: a new transcription for the guitar of the Partita No. 2 in Dm BWV 1004 for unaccompanied violin by Bach – the first four dances only…

In Part 1 we considered some mathematical aspects of Bach’s music, in Part 2 emotion in music generally, and now in Part 3 we can start looking at playing the music of J. S. Bach on the guitar. He wrote…

The previous post finished with my dismay at hearing 'Bach is pure mathematics.' It is not. This post is on the opposite; the musical language of the heart.

‘Heart’ is not all sweetness and light—dolce and giocoso. It…

Bach was a genius; Mozart the consummate professional and Beethoven somewhere in between. In the time—pun intended—of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)  people did not view time as we do today. When he walked 322 kilometres from the heart of Germany…