Christopher O'Riley I love the dual character of the Prelude: Toccata and Recitative. The 4 trumpet 8th notes of the Fugue: I like varying the length of them to give them direction, contributes to the phrasing arc, too. Wow. I guess a thumbs-up too from YouTube on the thumbnail of my thumbnail. My 96-episode archive, Everything We …
The deeper one goes into this monumental survey, the more one appreciates the indelible, characterful DNA of each fugue subject. The a minor Fugue’s imperious demeanour commands duty and fealty; its unequivocal rooted weight and didactic discourse are immediately apparent and unyielding.
A Major, the most amiable, affable, aspirational, adorable key. My 96-episode archive, Everything We Need To Know About Playing The Piano We Learn From The Well-Tempered Clavier, is now available at a special introductory rate of $20 for the first month of 10 episodes (that’s 2 /1/2 hours of material on the first 5 Preludes …
The whorls and swirls of melisma, dove-tailoring in tandem, stand in stark contrast to the fugue subjects final declamatory, incantatory 8th notes, beginning as chant or mantra, ending as curse, destiny. My 96-episode archive, Everything We Need To Know About Playing The Piano We Learn From The Well-Tempered Clavier, is now available at a special …
Even as some of the Preludes & Fugues were written in keys other than those in which they were eventually slotted in the chromatic catalogue, I’m going to venture a guess that the Ab Major Prelude & Fugue were synesthetically predestined for this symphonically celebratory Ab Major tonality. My 96-episode archive, Everything We Need To …
The g minor Prelude shows Bach in full-blown Scriabin mode: trills as varied expressive, textural and generative instruments. On the piano, it’s possible to use a trill to radiantly generate an ambient sostenuto of home sonority, or a way of gauging kinetic energy, from the glacial and static to the floating and transcendent. The hurdy-gurdy …