Pick your favorite what fugues.

[contrapunctus]

The WTC is my favorite work. I didn't include preludes because I don't like them as much as the fugues. My favorite fugue is Book I number 4. I also like number 1 and 5 from book one also.

Also, what is your favorite WTC book?

What is you favorite recording?

Is the WTC one of the best works you know?

Do you prefer playing contrapunctal music over music with chordal harmonies?

[invictious]

HAHHAA

Favorite what Fugues..!?!!?!?!

[nanabush]

When I read this I thought he meant what like HOLY CRAP INSANE fugues.

[lisztisforkids]

ROFLMAO! 

[mig]

what Fugues? this should be interesting... what's next? LOL fugues, please fugues, ... OHH, almost forgot!! 1337 fugues!!

[steveie986]

No. 20 from Book 1 is truly a what fugue. A young Rosalyn Tureck was practicing this fugue when she blacked out and had a mystical experience, after which she suddenly "knew" how to play Bach the right way.

[mephisto]

No. 20 from Book 1 is truly a what fugue. A young Rosalyn Tureck was practicing this fugue when she blacked out and had a mystical experience, after which she suddenly "knew" how to play Bach the right way.

That is the only Bach fugue I have ever played and it is indeed amazing. You can`t imagine how long it took me to learn it....

[steveie986]

What is you favorite recording?

Is the WTC one of the best works you know?

Do you prefer playing contrapunctal music over music with chordal harmonies?

Tureck and Gould.

Yes (along with Goldberg Variations and Art of the Fugue).

Yes, I'm a Gouldian. Merely fancy harmony is lame. Contrapuntalism makes me feel alive.

[mikey6]

The WTC is my favorite work. I didn't include preludes because I don't like them as much as the fugues.

Spoken like a true Gould - coz dat was exactly his thoughts!

[dnephi]

I like the WTC I A Minor

[kreso]

my favourite p&f  is f minor from second book..

for favourite recording I would choose Rosalyn Turcek on first place, and than Gould and Richter, and then Schiff and Hewit.

and yes, of course that I think that WTC is one of the greatest musical works! It is a Bible together with Beethoven sonatas and Chopin Etudes for every pianist-these are the things  that everyone have to play...

[steveie986]

I love the WTC but my favorite fugue of all time has to be Contrapunctus IV from the Art of the Fugue. The music is so beautiful and so structured I would be content to die afterwards.