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Topic: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck  (Read 7938 times)

Offline lingshu8

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This is a wonderful resource by the High Priestess of Bach, Rosalyn Tureck. It is out-of-print.  I found a copy at a local college library, scanned all three volumes and converted them to PDF.

You can download the files with Bit Torrent.

First, you will need to download a Bit Torrent client if you don't have one already.  See here:

https://bittorrent.com/download.html

Then you can download the file here:

https://www.pianosheets.org/details.php?id=853

Enjoy!

Offline faulty_damper

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #1 on: October 20, 2004, 11:54:19 PM
Thank you!  After I heard her CD on the WTC2, from the BBC Legends collection from the 1970s, not the Deutche Gramophon 2000 recording, I was convinced!

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #2 on: October 21, 2004, 03:30:57 AM
You have my thanks also! I've been looking all over for it (can't even find it used!)

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #3 on: October 21, 2004, 10:14:10 AM
Indeed, this is a “must have” book for anyone interested in interpreting Bach at the piano. But there is something else: Rosalyn Tureck actually recorded all the musical examples in the book so you can hear exactly what she talks about in the book:

“Bach: The Keyboard Album” – Sony (Essential Classics) – This is a 2 CD album, the first CD has the above, the second CD has Charles Rosen playing the Art of Fugue and is unrelated to the book.

Well done, Lingshu8! :D

Best wishes,
Benrhard.
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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #4 on: October 21, 2004, 11:12:51 AM
Rosalyn Tureck actually recorded all the musical examples in the book so you can hear exactly what she talks about in the book:
“Bach: The Keyboard Album” – Sony (Essential Classics)

Bernhard, do you have a copy of that CD?  If so, could you convert it to MP3 format and create a torrent for it at the pianosheets.org site? 

(if you haven't done this before, here's a quick tutorial on creating torrents at pianosheets.org: 
https://tinyurl.com/57bha)

If you upload the CD, I'll go ahead and bundle it with the book files so that others may download them all as a single file.  Wouldn't that be grand?  :D

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #5 on: September 19, 2005, 02:31:49 PM
Hi! I tried download this link, but probably there is nobody sharing it  :(

So I would REALLY appreciate if somebody could send it to me: foolx@onet.pl , or please share this file on the Torrent, or any another way of sharing.... It's impossibile to buy this book in my country, and I'm a big fan of Bach and Rosalyn interpretations.

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #6 on: September 20, 2005, 05:44:15 PM
Yes pls,

  share it again.

  Regards

CCR

Offline steveie986

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Anyone have the PDFs for this book?

Merci.

I just bought Tureck's Goldberg Variations and, my, they are stunning.

Offline barnowl

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I downloaded it but when I try to open it, the message is always

"Tureck_Intro_To_Bach.zip" : This torrent (or one with the same contents) is already running.

Would anyone please help?

Offline prometheus

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It is a torrent. I remember this post about a week or two after this message was posted. I tried to download the file but it seems that no one was seeding the torrent. This means you cannot download it. At least I could not.
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What a find this is, must find computer expert...

Offline prometheus

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No need.

If you read the topic you will see it is impossible to get the file.
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Offline ptmidwest

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Ah, but hope springs eternal, and someone clever may find another way...

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Try emailing the person that started this topic.
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Thank you, Prometheus!

Offline 49410enrique

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #15 on: December 28, 2012, 07:49:13 PM
Indeed, this is a “must have” book for anyone interested in interpreting Bach at the piano. But there is something else: Rosalyn Tureck actually recorded all the musical examples in the book so you can hear exactly what she talks about in the book:

“Bach: The Keyboard Album” – Sony (Essential Classics) – This is a 2 CD album, the first CD has the above, the second CD has Charles Rosen playing the Art of Fugue and is unrelated to the book.

Well done, Lingshu8! :D

Best wishes,
Benrhard.

i have volume 3 of the three volume set, i have my eye on 1 and 2 but they are rare/expensive used/old books.

my school library has these. indeed per Benrhard, this is an incredible resource. it is out of print and to my knowledge quite difficult to come buy outside of music school libraries.

i do not know if the original torrent is still active, but i am attaching a very good realized PDF/converted file scan i have in my records (I was working out of my vintage vol 3 but am  considering knocking out 1 and 2 before coming back with plans to play through the entire thing with carefull study of her notes/discussion and attention to her suggestions).

If I can get the recordings (CD option as the LP where I have seen it is expensive, into the hundreds of dollars), I will attempt to post on my soundcloud and update the post. i love her Bach recordings, I hear nod after nod to g gould (with appropriate/obvious good reason), but it's a shame rosalyn's efforts remain largely undiscovered and under appreciated outside Bach afficionado circles. I hope with this bump, i can get more eyes and ears on her. she is probably my favorite 'historical' interpreter and until her death in 2003, was my favorite 'living' artist on Bach.

again my main reason for posting this is due to the rarity/out of print status of the file, otherwise we would have to wait another 37 years for it to become PD

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #16 on: December 28, 2012, 08:37:28 PM



again my main reason for posting this is due to the rarity/out of print status of the file, otherwise we would have to wait another 37 years for it to become PD

And many thanks for that! The introduction part was really well written and interesting, not just for Bach but about Baroque in general.

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #17 on: December 28, 2012, 09:44:31 PM
And many thanks for that! The introduction part was really well written and interesting, not just for Bach but about Baroque in general.
you're welcome :)
btw if anyone is interested, you can sample the whole album and recordings of all the works in the books here
https://www.7digital.com/artist/charles-rosen-rosalyn-tureck/release/essential-classics-take-2-bach-keyboard-album

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #18 on: January 06, 2013, 11:33:03 PM
The whole album is uploaded in this YouTube playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-EbSmbfX83yxl-GZrLPPHSQ8cK8y8yBS

Thanks to the uploader.

Offline qpalqpal

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #19 on: July 03, 2013, 06:55:51 PM
What does this book demonstrate? Does it give a series of exercises or something? What is it's purpose?
Working on:
Bach Invention 7 (also Tureck's book)
Clementi Sonatina 3
Rachmaninoff Moment Musicaux no. 3
Skrjabin Prelude op.11 no.4
Joplin The Favorite Rag

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #20 on: July 04, 2013, 12:34:30 AM
My god, can't believe I missed this last year..  How enrique is missed here with his broad repertoire knowledge and mindboggling collection of digital references.

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Re: An Introduction to the Performance of Bach by Rosalyn Tureck
Reply #21 on: July 07, 2013, 03:29:56 AM
I really enjoy the recordings of Tureck playing the little pieces from the AMB notebook.  She always sounds so stately and authentic (as if I would know what authentic baroque should sound like) but yet there is a personality and uniqueness to her music.
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