Bach Prelude n 10 in in E minor BWV 855 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 often makes even professional pianists tremble.
The pale coloured key of E-minor suggested to Bach two ideas totally differing from each other. The prelude is full of passion, of painful palpitation, of impetuousness.
It seems as if it were a pianoforte arrangement of a Trio for violin, lute, and harpsichord. All three instruments carry out their parts in a consistent manner, until the entry of the Presto (indicated by Bach himself), somewhere about the middle of the piece. But the contents of this Presto only differ in appearance from those of the first section; a glance at the lower voice shows that the beginning of the same is only the transposition of the opening measures from E-minor to A- minor; but the violin has been carried away by the lively movement, and now the harpsichord follows, for the most part, in 6ths and 10ths, while the lute is silent, at any rate is no longer noticeable.
It was really fun to study it, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Greetings from Italy
Carmelo

[essence]

Nice - but I find it a bit dry. Those quaver RH chords are more like semi-quavers! Was it totally without pedal.

Even harpsichord versions have a bit of resonance.

Have you listened to Angela Hewitt?