SlowBach.Com Digital Music Store

Here we focus on something truly unique – performances of many of this peerless master’s enduring compositions, captured in pristine, studio-quality audio MP3 recordings and taken at VERY SLOW and VERY RELAXING tempos.

We do this because, based on surviving accounts, it was evident to lovers of Bach’s music during his lifetime, as well as to other such lovers worldwide in the nearly three hundred years since his death in 1750, that slower tempos used in performances of his works enable listeners and performers to gain a better appreciation and enjoyment of his music’s sonic beauty, its structural brilliance and its many personal benefits to their minds, bodies and souls.

And even his works normally heard at faster tempos yield all of this when taken at much slower ones.

SlowBach.Com affirms this and aims to become one of the Internet’s primary demonstrators of, advocates for and providers of downloadable specimens of this monumental slowdown.

The legacy of Bach rests on a surviving body of over 1,100 works. What is not so widely known is the fact that this only represents approximately ten percent (10%) of what he actually wrote down. After his death in 1750, the great majority of his manuscripts were lost, burned or turned to dust by the ravages of time. Yet that ten percent has grown to become one of Western civilization’s richest and most revered creations in any art form.

Very few of Bach’s manuscript works bear any tempo markings (the metronome was not invented until 64 years after his death, in 1814). But with SlowBach.Com his works’ notes, not their performance tempos, remain the same.

And, as with those of all other composers everwhere, it is the notes that carry the music.