New Bach video Fugue nr 3 in C sharp Maj, BWV 848 Pianoteq

[carmelopaolucci]

Dear Friends,

This fugue  does not in any way appear to me of a humorous nature, but rather breathes peace and cheerful delight: it is of enchanting sound, and full of deep feeling. The numerous feminine endings and harmonic subtleties are quite opposed to such hurrying.
The theme consists of four measures, without ellipses or extensions, and is therefore favourable to symmetrical construction  in the first half it is full of expression and submission, and has a feminine ending, but in the second it changes, so to speak.
That the number of sections here exceeds three can already be seen by the greater number of elaborate episodes, of which no less than six can be pointed out.
Finally the concluding portion introduces a complete development in the principal key, and this is distinguished from the one at the opening of the fugue, in that it starts at once with two voices (with theme in bass), and is completed by a postlude, not of eight measures, but of six: it is occupied with the motives does not modulate, and, in it the bass descends to the lowest octave.
But Bach cannot satisfy himself, and by way of coda makes the soprano give the Dux again twice, once quite faithfully, the second time with slight melodic alteration; in the closing motive all four voices appear in broad quaver movement.
I hope you like it, it was really fun for me to study it.
Greetings from Italy!
Carmelo