When I started playing music, so incredible long-time ago, I was told time after time, that Bach was a very conservative composer. Some of the voices of my musical education even did go that far, that he possibly not could have understood the new ways his sons had chosen. Well...yeah... I dont buy this. I mean, diving in to the music of the greatest master of all times, one is constantly surprised of the progressive use of harmony and playing technique. Bach was the Franz Liszt of the 18th century on the field of expansing his technical abilities (and with that, those of his contemporaries and next generations). This prelude is of an extreme sadness, and, thinking of Franz Liszt and the habits of the 19th century, he might have called this piece Tristesse. It has a beautiful expression of mood and harmony, and is followed by one of the more complex fugues, that Bach provided with a theme that... well... also could have been written by Webern. Oh, that old-fashioned Bach, only busy with his long-passed counterpoint...! It is a composed fugue for sure, I mean, in the sense that it is hard to play in a way to give all four voices its full range of tone and colour. A string quartet would be great, and, with the humble technical skills that mother nature gave me, I was thinking what the effect would be if recorded voice by voice, in a multitrack recording. So, progressive Bach would meet progressive technique... May be once, as an experiment... but not in this fugue, such a masterpiece within masterpieces. Arent we lucky to have all that music at reach? Thanks for watching, and dont forget to subscribe! Wim authenticsound.be
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 06:40:45 +0000
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