Bach Fugue 10 in E minor BWV 855 Pianoteq

[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 Fugue n 10 — the only one of the Well-tempered Clavier in 2 voices — is of somewhat mournful mood, and yet there are no painful convulsions: it is rather of a contemplative character, like the beholding of nature clad in its autumn garb, when even the falling leaf and the barebecoming branches afford esthetic enjoyment. The relationship of the theme to the E- major Prelude may not be a chance one; anyhow it is instructive to note the same, and, for the grasping of the meaning, important.
The theme consists, apparently of three measures, but in reality has four, since by an unexpected harmonic turn the second measure becomes third.
The chief sections are:
1. Exposition: a 8-measure periods; first Dux {E-minor—B-minor) in the soprano, and then Comes {B-minor— F#-major) in the bass; the episode which follows concludes in G.
2. Modulation section a) Dux (G—D) in the soprano; Comes (D—A) in the bass; an episode modulates through C-major to A minor (with a remarkable unisono of both voices);
3) Dux {A -minor— E- minor) in the bass, Comes {E-minor—B) in the soprano; an episode modulates to D-minor\c) Dux {D-minor — A-minor) in the bass, Comes (A-minor — E) in the soprano; another episode {e7—0e =c6 — d7 — g+— b7 [unisono) finally leads to
4. The concluding section in the principal key, which only consists of 4 measures: dux in the soprano, and then, once more Dux, commenced in the bass, but completed in the soprano.
It was really fun to study it, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Greetings from Italy
Carmelo