Bach Prelude & Fugue 18 WTC I- BWV 863

[gregwer]

Hey guys!

Well, I have an exam in 2 weeks, and this is one of the pieces i'm performing, so today i recorded this during my practice:

Would like you to give me some advice or tips, and tell me if you liked it .

Thanks for listening!

[andhow04]

it's nice i thinK!
the prelude is melodicaly sensitive but i don't feel the harmonies as much.  I would recommend playing it with more sensitivity to coloring the harmonies, it feels like one large dynamic level but needs more articulation i think in the harmony.


the fugue is more harmonic tho i don't udnerstand your subito piano at measure 30.  dynamically it seems a little wayward, like neither here nor there. 

when bach does four voices fugues, he has certain techniques for making the music in each voice economical, and this one has two counter-subjects: the first is in the tenor in measure three, when the second voice enters above; the second counter-subject is also in the tenor in measure 5, but they are not the same subject (they are separable).

so the episode beginning around measure 9 is a play on that second counter-subject.  I usually can't hear that counter0subject in your performance and would make it more expressive. look how in measure 11 he combines them in the upper voices, i think the alto voice with its syncopations is more important. interestingly, they are both derived from material in the subject.

i love this fugue because it is such a good example of how creative bach was with a small amoutn of material. over all good job!

[gregwer]

Thanks for the advice! Yeah i was a little nervous when i recorded that, it's my first video, so that subito piano wasn't prepared xD.

And thanks for the advice on the fuge, i have the Mugelini edition, very good one, and it shows the subject and the counter-subjects  as well, i need to emphasize those voices too .

In a few days i will be uploading another pieces, among them Prokofiev's "Romeo & Juliet before parting" i know you played this before, so i would like to hear your opinion

[krajcher]

Hello, first of all I liked your playing very much.

Pay attention on the tempo. You played the fugue faster and faster.

[gregwer]

Thanks for listening  .