briantrumpet
Guru
Will have to look that one up, there were so many.
That is the sound track I most associate with Bach’s G String. Slow chilled jazz. Can‘t contemplate speeding it up at all.
I have never smoked so wasn’t damaged watching those ads as a kid.
The thing is that Loussier had consciously turned the piece openly into something else, but performers playing it 'as is' show no apparent desire to challenge the current orthodoxy. A similar fate had befallen the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony, which had also turned into a funereal dirge over the years (not least because of its use in Death In Venice), but it was expressly a love song to his wife, clocking in at about 7 minutes, not the common 10+ minutes it had become ordinarily. Thankfully there seems to have been some fight back on that one.
Anyway, bunker mentality for you.