New Bach Video - Fugue n 9 in E Major BWV 854 WTC1

[carmelopaolucci]

Dear Friends,

I'm publish this piece to continue my dream of recording the entire Well Tempered Clavier,to achieve this feat, I didn't choose a famous acoustic piano, but simple entry-level digital piano, because I'm convinced that even with "poor equipment" but with a lot of good will, it's possible to overcome the difficulties and achieve appreciable results on a collection that it's a real challenge also for professional pianists.
In the fugue n 9 in E Major (a 3) one feels something of the joy of a wandering life which indeed well befits the spring-mood of the key. The energetic run of the short theme (alto), is not peaceful enjoyment, but resolution, active energy.
The semiquaver movement of the second motive continues without interruption until the close of the whole fugue, and first, as countersubject (counterpoint to the Comes), then, as filling up until the entry of the third voice (bass); with 6th measure taken as 7th. Here the sixth parallels appear to show us two wanderers arm in arm. The syncopated motive, which is here taken up by the alto part, is likewise turned to account further on, and first in the immediate continuation. This elevated mood becomes more intense still in the next episode (over the moving bass busy with the motive a of the countersubject).
The hearts of the wanderers expand, and in jubilant tones sounds again the theme in the soprano (the Dux in a higher position). I leave to the imagination, once aroused, to complete the picture, and only point, besides, to the episode after the second development, in which the bass moves along somewhat painfully, and the alto sighs from weariness, while the soprano advances with merry hum.
The concluding section (entirely in the principal key) has, first of all, a complete development (bass: Dux, soprano: Comes, alto: Dux), and after a free imitation of the great episode of the middle part in the principal key, still an incomplete one (soprano: Dux, alto — after an episode of four measures — Comes). What simplicity in the disposition and development as compared with the gigantic Fugue in Eb-minor!
It was really fun to study it, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Greetings from Italy
Carmelo