Walter as Bach fan
Nov. 3rd, 2011 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylHaving got as far as episode 2.15 of Fringe — where Walter spills the beans to Olivia — I found my brain snagged on the piece of Bach that 80s Walter puts on when he returns home to Peter and Elizabeth. I was pretty sure it was the opening to an aria, but I couldn't remember whether it was from one of the passions or whether it was from somewhere else entirely. It wasn't until this morning, I caught myself adding in the words, that I realised it was the obbligato opening to the Benedictus from the B-minor Mass:
(Walter's enthusiasm for Bach goes all the way back to ep 1.3, when he asks Peter to play the Mass in A-minor on the piano. Which as any Bach nerd knows doesn't make much sense: Bach didn't actually write a mass in A-minor. So perhaps Water was thinking of the missa brevis in A-major BWV 234 or, more likely, the Mass in B-minor BWV 232, but I don't suppose it matters much since Peter refuses to play it)
(Walter's enthusiasm for Bach goes all the way back to ep 1.3, when he asks Peter to play the Mass in A-minor on the piano. Which as any Bach nerd knows doesn't make much sense: Bach didn't actually write a mass in A-minor. So perhaps Water was thinking of the missa brevis in A-major BWV 234 or, more likely, the Mass in B-minor BWV 232, but I don't suppose it matters much since Peter refuses to play it)
