Bach: Prelude & Fugue
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 Bach, Prelude in g minor, WTC bk I
April 10, 2009, 04:08:33 PM by Karli
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measure 18, beats 3 and 4, "A" or "Ab" 
I am using the PS Urtext edition, and I have checked the Czerny edition provided by this site, as well as the Bach-Gesellschaft edition, as well as my own Kalmus edition, and every edition has an A natural for all three of the "A's" found within beats 3 and 4 in measure 18, RH (and there are not any Ab's in the measure anywhere else).
However, in listening now to several recordings there are discrepencies.
Schiff plays Ab.
Gould plays A natural on the first one, then Ab on the next two.
Richter plays A natural.
Tureck plays A natural.
Hewitt plays A natural.
I had somehow picked up the Ab in my own playing and then I was corrected to what the score actually reads. I don't doubt the correction, but upon listening again to Gould, the Ab caught my ear and suddenly I went on a hunt. Schiff's could just be wrong notes ? But, Gould's are intentional, it seems. Why is that happening ?
So, am I just being pedantic to wonder a bit obssessively about something like this, or does it actually matter ?
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JS Bach, Prelude and Fugue in g minor, WTC bk I -- note question ?
September 11, 2008, 02:59:31 PM by Karli
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I am looking at measure 18 of the fugue in the alto voice, first note of that measure, E(b). This is the fourth note of a subject re-entry (the previous measure beginning it). I have been entering this fugue into a four part notation so I can isolate the voices better, and as I was listening to just this voice on the Sibelius playback, my ear wanted for that Eb to be an E-natural. I looked at the score I am using and it did not read E natural, so I looked into another edition of the music that I have here : "Kalmus" and in that edition there is a footnote indicating that in the "Gerber" edition, that note is in fact an E natural, not an Eb. So, I looked on the remaining PS editions, all of which also have an Eb. My ear badly wants an E natural and apparently in some other edition that I don't have, it is an E natural and not a flat.
Does anybody happen to have any information on this ?
Thanks 
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Prelude & Fugue BWV 861 no 16 PS Urtext (sheet music) 