This beautiful prelude is amongst the easiest in the WTC (which is not to say that it is easy). You should be able to tackle it since I estimate it being around grade 6/7. The fugue is another matter altogether. Are you intending to play just the prelude? If you want to play the prelude and the fugue you will probably not have enough time.If you intend to play just the prelude, be prepared for purists to cringe. However there is no evidence that Bach ever intended for the preludes and fugues to be paired in any way, so you may as well ignore the purists. (I personally like to pair them though).Will you be able to master it to public performance level in one month? Only you can answer that. Personally I hate to learn anything under pressure, so I would not do it. One thing you may try is to see how much of the prelude you can master in 3 - 4 days. Then estimate if you will be able to perfect the whole thing in one month. This way, if you decide not to do it, all you invested on it were 3 or 4 days.Good luck!Best wishes,Bernhard.
I am nowhere near your level of play, but I am learning this prelude myself.If the fingering causes you no problems it should be easy enough to master. The left hand is a lot of work in this piece however.Also, the recording you have listed is very interesting and I really liked the sound of it. It is however the slowest recording I have ever heard of this Prelude.I do believe it should be played at a much faster tempo. This may not be an issue for you since you are playing for a school concert.Good luck and let us know what you decide and which part you found most challenging.
the fingering is actually marked on the copy from sheetmusicarchive.net so that is one less thing to do.
Take that fingering with a (large) pinch of salt and feel no qualms about changing it.
dear masteryou forget thisBest wishes,Bernhard.lol. just kidding
Expect the unexpected. BWB.
If this is the prelude I think it is, with the melody in the LH be very careful, very. You don't want to turn it into 6/8 instead of 3/4. I can't explain it online, but just watch out. My organ teacher says /many/ people play it in 6/8 instead of 3/4. You may not be one of them.
Has anyone noticed the discrepancy between different editions of this piece? In measure eighteen, some books have a "C" in the left hand on beats one and three. Other books have a "C" on beat one and a B-flat on beat three. This discrepancy bothers me because the latter creates a walking bass sound that I love; unfortunately, the book that my teacher has me using shows a "C" on both beats.