Bach - Prelude and Fugue in g# minor, BWV863 (WTC I)

[andhow04]

the g# minor prelude and fugue from the first book.  the fugue is a difficult four-voice work with an especially complex section towards the end, with a network of held notes and rests and three parts migrate to one hand, including part of the subject.  it is difficultt o even work out visually! and the key is certainly unfamiliar.



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[scottmcc]

as usual fine playing, this time of a selection from the WTC that is less familiar, especially the prelude.  the fugue is one of my favorites though, and I salute you for the clarity of line throughout.  it's a real doozy, certainly one of the more challenging fugues, despite the relatively simple-sounding main motif. 

question:  once you make it all the way through the WTC, are you going to compile everything together?  and have you ever thought about working through it a second time?  I would think that a few years from now revisiting it would give you even more insights into these works.

anyway, great work as usual!

[andhow04]

as usual fine playing, this time of a selection from the WTC that is less familiar, especially the prelude.  the fugue is one of my favorites though, and I salute you for the clarity of line throughout.  it's a real doozy, certainly one of the more challenging fugues, despite the relatively simple-sounding main motif. 

question:  once you make it all the way through the WTC, are you going to compile everything together?  and have you ever thought about working through it a second time?  I would think that a few years from now revisiting it would give you even more insights into these works.

anyway, great work as usual!

thanks for your listening andc omments!  I dont know longterm what will come of the project, i am better at ideas than pracitcal uses i suppose.  But it would be nice to have them all recorded in better quality, on one piano.  i've used at least 3 pianos thus far and maybe 4, and the recorder i use is erally third-rate.  but for now i want to know all of them, and see how well i can know them.   especially being able to compare so many pieces of the same genre, gives alot of insight i think into a compoesrs thinking and procedure.

[thinkgreenlovepiano]

I love your playing very much! Thanks for posting. I'm going to have to listen to this one a few times.
 I also enjoyed your other Bach recordings... I hope that you'll post more! Are you going to record the entire WTC?

[andhow04]

I love your playing very much! Thanks for posting. I'm going to have to listen to this one a few times.
 I also enjoyed your other Bach recordings... I hope that you'll post more! Are you going to record the entire WTC?

hello, a d thanks for that.  yes i am doing the whole WTC in my spare time.  So far have recorded 17 of them i think?  This since june.  i am using bartok's edition, though not really following his expression advice, but going in the order he arranged them.

i read somewhere that he arranged them according to difficulty, but i have to question that because the very first one in G major from book II has a very tricky fugue that is certainly harder to play than several that come after it.  it might be arranged in order of compositional difficulty, because he doesn't introduce four voice fugues until #15 or so, and then they are not too involved for four voices.  if anyone has anymore info on this would much appreciate it.  i can't read the hungarian preface.