A live video wish

[Raptured]

I'm fairly sure that technology, being what it is, would have Bach only on Betamax, or at best, on VHS...

Oh, boy!! You think?? But Bach is a "hot guy" in the classic area!!! I´m sure it would be a DVD, and people would upload it quickly to the internet! His lawyers would have a bad time!

You see, we think about DVDs instantly. What a crazy world...

[Chaszz]

As an art viewer, I enjoy the loose and expressive brushwork of Impressionism and earlier painters such as Titian and Rembrandt, who painted loosely and a little roughly also, with areas of built-up impasto paint. I also paint that way myself...So in TV, I also prefer the 'looser' visual feeling of VHS to DVD. So seeing Bach in VHS would be ideal for me. Anybody have any idea where I can get the VHS tape of Bach in action that is mentioned here? Willing to pay a little extra for it....

[JA Gardiner]

As an art viewer, I enjoy the loose and expressive brushwork of Impressionism and earlier painters such as Titian and Rembrandt, who painted loosely and roughly also. I also paint that way myself...So in TV, I also prefer the 'looser' visual feeling of VHS to DVD. So seeing Bach in VHS would be ideal for me. Anybody have any idea where I can get the VHS tape of Bach in action that is mentioned here? Willing to pay a little extra for it....

No No ! I'm sure the authentic performance buffs amongst us would insist its celluloid or nothing - perhaps even zootrope!

For me, taking any occasion by the Boss or Mozart for granted, it would have to be either the 1898 Prague performance of Mahler's 1st conducted by the man himself - the first performance where it was really appreciated for the "Titanic" achievement it is! Or the 1900 performance of the same work with Mahler at the helm of the the Vienna Phil with the hall looking splendid after the refurbishment. Talk about a prophet not being honoured in his own country..... All so near but just too far to make it onto recording