Bach Prelude and Fugue No.1 Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1 with Harmonic Pedal
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In this recording I used the 4th harmonic pedal in resonance position only. The harmonic pedal was invented by Denis de La Rochefordière.
The sheet music featured in this video is in the public domain and differs occasionally from my Tovey & Samuel edition, which I used in this recording, published by the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music, which isn’t.
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I remember playing this prelude at a concert while I was starting with the instrument. Then one day, years later, my teacher put this out and I was like "but I played this already". Little did I knew about this damn fugue.
this is me at the moment lol
I've been playing the piano for 11-12 years and this fugue is one of the hardest things I've played
no one informs us about the fugue portion. You’d have to buy the well-tempered clavier
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Me: *finishes Prelude*
Bach: That was beautiful. But, dear lad, it’s just a Prelude... Time for the MAIN EVENT!!! *slams 4-part Fugue*
Me: *cries*
Kazuo Tsukumi so true 😂
You know, I am at the 3rd bar of the fugue after 2 days. I cry too.
Still cannot enter the 3rd voice into the fugue. Major gap years between this prelude and its fugue :((
@@ruixxxx are you sight reading?
@@razvaz Yes, but I'm being slow.
Bach must be like "so you think the prelude is so easy? Okay, let me give you a 4-part fugue."
And also here are 23 more preludes and fugues that are also harder
Jose D. Vargas the one in c minor is way easy
That is exactly how i feel now that i have to prepare both for my exam
exactly! Ah the motif is so F**king easy AF. Plays some bars further... flips over the piano
I can ace this prelude! Oh god whats that at the back
I remember trying to learn this fugue back in the day. It's like a game of Twister on the piano keyboard; shifting fingers to hold a pedal-point key down while the other fingers do something else, and alternating the same voice between hands, etc. Needles to say, I only learned a few WTC fugues while listening to my Glenn Gould and Andras Schiff CD's in amazement and frustration. Oh, well.
i think you have to listen to a few performances , glenn gould might be the best for bach , but for me he is not always the best , same thing with schiff
and btw what do you think of my performance?th-cam.com/video/Rh9N6XfRSSo/w-d-xo.html
Wtf my dad is a liar. When I was around 8 or 9 my dad played this on the piano for me and when I asked who wrote it he said he did. So I believed that lie until now (I am 17 years old) because I hadn't heard the piece anywhere except at home when my dad played it. I feel so lied to.
Omg really? LOL
@@ceciliabassi8887 yes I'm not kidding. It was insane finding this on TH-cam, I thought I was going crazy
@@juandavila4534 I feel sorry for you, but at the same time I find t so funny (don't be offended) !
@@ceciliabassi8887 lol don't worry about it, it is pretty funny, but at the same time, so shocking for me.
Maybe your dad is bach
I’ve been learning this piece every day for 8 years. I’m only 6 bars away from finally knowing how to play it, can’t wait 😃
How did it go?
Not very well I guess. I mean, 8 whole years.
8 years? Might want to find a better practicing strategy.
@@Petya_Haralanova 5 bars now 😁
@@PlantsForHire Keep us updated.
There's a phrase I've read somewhere that I think explains well just how good Bach was. It went more or less like:
"Bach was better at music than anyone else at anything, ever."
Thank you so much for these above-the-hands recordings. I was quite sure from the sound of it that this piece was extraordinarily complicated to play, and now that I've been able to try to follow your brilliant hands on the keys, I can see that I was right! Lovely!
This piece isn't very hard to play at all it is consiered very easy tbh
PureGold LoL ... says the guy without his recording of the four part fugue for the world to dissect. Be sure the motive is always clear.😜
Jeremy Hudson misunderstanding, I was talking about the Prelude. The fugue is semi-difficult. My apologies
@@puregoldlol2619 Bach in one of the difficult autors of the history, so you’re ring
There are a lot of short sustains and jumps in the C Major fugue. It's such an excellent piece for finger control, especially if you take the purist route and omit all use of the sustain pedal. I actually don't think this a very challenging piece to read or practice but playing it masterfully (full tempo, beautiful sound, no stress on the hands) is an entirely another matter.
One of the best pianists on TH-cam. What I love about Paul is his repertoire is vast bust his interpretations are always tasteful and on point. I haven't come across a recording to where I've thought to myself: "What is this guy doing here?" I love the concise playing and the thoughtful usage of the pedal in everything he plays. WELL DONE, sir. Well done.
One of my favourites. Love the pedal note at the end. I usually play it far too loudly so I can enjoy hearing it sustain for longer!
I started playing this to get over an ex-boyfriend. I found the finger position complex and absorbing. I was able to pour my emotions into the piano. Then I heard your interpretation, so adept, so subtle and inspirational. Now I am perfecting this piece, the Fugue, and the preludio and fugue 2. Keeps me challenged and focused everyday! I love 💗 your style!
Get out
Of all Bach pieces this is my all-time favorite! It's hauntingly joyful beauty is wonderful!
Holy crap, I been looking for this song for months, I just got a chrome extension called aha music, music find and I recorded myself playing the melody and it found it so fast, I am so happy now.
This is probably the easiest song I have learned, and also the second I have actually finished.
Ive just read Hugo Norden's book on canon, at the end of the book, it explains bach wrote this piece as a canon, and then added harmony, and then arpeggiated the result. Its a hidden masterpiece inside of a bigger, more evident masterpiece.
Thank you for blessing us with your labor of love. You are bringing the amazing work of Bach to our ears and hearts.
God bless you richly.
Man that was as good as many of the best recordings. You really brought out the subject and highlighted the moving harmonies in the best ways.
Thank you for uploading this. As someone starting out with sheet music, it really helps to be able to follow the video with the sheet music. Cheers!
The fugue may sound easy, but it's actually really difficult. I'm playing it right now, and I can say it's a really difficult piece.
Edit: After a month, I've finished the fugue, but I quit learning the fugue a long time ago but continued a few days ago, so it took me 2 weeks to learn the fugue. It was pretty difficult, but I can play it easily now.
yeah, I agree. Definitely the harder out of the prelude and the fugue.
I agree as well lol
fugue 2:11 BWV 846
Your videos inspire me to learn more, and play better! I enjoy your Chopin recordings. Awesome playing. Thanks Mr. Barton! :D
Joel Ross hey! I know you! :-)
Hey there!! :D
Просто супер! Я нашла для себя учителя! Спасибо!
I’m hearing the Prelude in C now after listening to a lot Joplin’s rags-particularly “The Entertainer.” I’m struck how Joplin’s main rhythmic motif (the famous one in the beginning) sounds like the first rhythmic motif in Bach’s Prelude. When I speed Bach’s motif up in my mind, I hear a connection to Joplin. Both composers use melodic shapes to form syncopated rhythm structures, if that makes sense.
I wonder if Joplin studied the Well Tempered-especially the Prelude-intently as part of his training. Otherwise it could be a matter of great minds thinking alike. Either way, I’m hearing both compositions and both composers very differently now.
Thanks for posting this, Barton!
Thanks. Very provocative and insightful comment
Takes me from the edge every time. Particularly like this version. Now primadona flourish. It speaks for itself.
I love your example of playing the final chord of both the Prelude and the Fugue quietly.
WOW! For the first time in my life I was able to follow the written music by having your hands on the keyboard to watch and help me tie the sound to the score. Brilliant, I have to now see if I can manage to play this myself.
Hermoso Paul. Perfecto el "tempo" elegido para el preludio y la fuga. Uno puede meditar hasta la profundidad del alma. Abrazo desde Argentina.
Creo que el tempo es demasiado lento, glenn gould lo tocaba así y creo que es malo, personalmente lo toco mucho más rápido y va mejor, ¿qué opinas?
th-cam.com/video/Rh9N6XfRSSo/w-d-xo.html
This piece is a truly wonderful piece and try to find new ways to practice and play it every day. Gounod recognized this and really brought beauty to it.
Gounod destroyed it.
I'm learning the fugue and it's real hard thanks for this wonderful interpretation.
Fell in deep, elegic love with your accents on RH 4 and 5. Hmm. It just makes so much sense played like this!
Try not to orgasm! Haha, lol.
Im an absulote amateur, gonna learn the fugue. Might take me a few months or a year if i practice hard enough. Its gonna be tough but the benefits are certainly worth it
i'd encourage you to at least try to climb your way up there through bach's repertoire. fugues are really difficult, you might play the correct notes but to have control over each voice, which is kind of the point and the charm of their sound, takes a lot of time :(
I'm going to do the same, I'm starting now, one year after you... at the end, have you made it?
@@gaspareoldrini9975 no💀💀💀💀
@@supasayajinsongoku4464 wow, very encouraging 😀🔫
The chords for the first 11 bars are as follows:
C Dm7 G7 C Am D7 G CM7 Am7 D7 G
At Bar 12, it gets more complicated, starting out with Edim7.
I'm not gonna go into more detail here, since there are already a lot of 7th chords. Have fun deciphering the rest of the piece's chords!
Hi Paul, I noticed that you have not played the "Schwencke measure" (measure 23) that is found in most editions. I love that you are such a scholar in addition to being a great interpreter of Bach.
if you allow me a short artistic comment, the prelude plays a little bit better with more sustain (in my opinion). In particular, the last note of the semiquaver sets gets nicer and more flowy that way
that's right and btw what do you think of my performance of this prelude and fugue? th-cam.com/video/Rh9N6XfRSSo/w-d-xo.html
it's a little faster than this one don't you think?
i think it's the right way to play it (i'm not pretending to be a great performer though)
@@charlesbacci4955 yeah that's more like how I would do it myself. thx for sharing
I love the way you play it Paul.
I just spent 90 minutes and I have about the first 30 seconds Tomorrow, I'll have forgotten it.
Nah bro, you'd think that but it comes right back to you the next day :)
Go back to it again tomorrow. Keep working at it, and go a little further. Keep doing that, and eventually you'll stop forgetting :)
this piece relieves a lot of my anxieties ☺️
Came here from Tarkov, saw a promo that had this composition sheet music on it, in game…. Got shot while lostening to a great tune
This piece is the definition of
“Oh! This test is easy!”
“Oh yeah, the front 2 pages are, the back pages are a struggle though”
“The”
*”what”*
Ihanaa ja helppo apu soiton opiskeluun. Kiitos.
The fugue has a secret - from 21st to 22nd bar (3:45 to 3:48), the inverted theme of the c major 2 part invention (BWV 772) appears!
What if it's just a coincidence?
It looks like in the fourth measure of the fugue you're playing an A with the thumb of your left hand halfway through the third beat, but on the score this is marked with a quaver rest... are you embellishing?
This and others preludes by Bach resembles lute-like arpegios a lot.
3:27 dem lefthand 32nds thumb only!
I find it amazing you are able to make it sound so legato, I'm struggling with that bit.
Why that F# at 2:50 (bar 9) was played as a quaver instead of a semi-quaver? (not a critique, just curious)
In my edition it shows it both ways. Must be some discrepancy in the manuscript? I don't know
Beautiful playing 👍
Paul -- This is a very satisfying rendition . . . very clear and crisp with a great tempo and excellent dynamic changes. I also noticed that there's a missing measure in the Prelude. Your recording and the displayed score omits Measure 23 and goes straight from Measure 22 to Measure 24. The sequence in Measure 23 should be G-E♭, B-C-E♭, B-C-E♭. Thanks for this and all of your other recordings and tutorials. I’ve been truly enjoying them all.
@Jason The added measure is called the Schwencke measure. It was inserted after Bach's death, and it's presence is controversial. There's more info about this on the web and the piano forum. The version I'm using includes it, but most do not, so I personally have chosen to skip this measure.
What is with that A note you are playing with your left hand at 2:51? it says absolutely nothing like that in the sheet music at that moment.
For some reason he plays the A an octave higher, doesn't make much of a difference though.
He's playing a C with his thumb
Paul, your interpretation of this fugue is definitely my favorite. Great choice of tempo and articulation, bravo! I'd like to use this opportunity to thank you for all these videos, they are of great help and inspiration! BTW what is your opinion about finger substitution? For example, on bar 7 it seems like you used a little pedal in order to keep the low A ringing instead of finger substitution (sounds perfect though).
Would you tell us more about this harmonic pedal? I've just learned this piece on an acoustic and use no pedal. I find it doesn't really need it. What is the harmonic pedal? I assume it is on a digital only?
no its his particular make of piano has special pedal
This is the music that goes with the Nat West advert. i cannot remember what the advert is about but it us worth listening to just to be reminded of the music. Now if only there was a way to hear the music without the voice-over. Oh wait a minute there is TH-cam!
Wouldn't anyone know if "Prelude and Fugue No.1" is in a famous movie because I'm sure I've heard this song before but I don't remember where at all
This prelude just has a dammed hard fugue!
Thanks, beautifully played!
02:10 Dont mind my comment...
thanks
I am playing this prelude and fugue right now
Who else is playing these for their exams 😭-?
2:27 I don't know how but an A seems to have been included in the left hand where it is nowhere to be seen in the sheet music
there also seems to be an D there
it might've been edited to break the empty space in the alto section
I'd say it still fits the fugue
Always love this. Can play the prelude & up to the first 30-40 seconds of the fugue, I gather it gets harder after that..?
Thanks blessings and love!
Beautiful playing Mr. Barton. Measure 9 soprano third beat F# is 16th beat earlier than the notation.
Hi, some sheet music in internet and other versions in TH-cam has a difference in the 23rd bar. Left hand plays G and E flat. Which one is the correct? thanks
I like Emilie's version better. Congratulations on your wonderful little girl, Dad.
0:08 - прелюдія 1 С
2:10 - фуга 1 С
A bit confused by your choice of fingering for the Prelude. For example, why opt for RH 1-2-5, for those "long" sequences, thus having to screw up the natural straight position of the wrist, when you could have used a more relaxed RH 1-3-5???
Hello from South Korea. You're my teacher
C-V. Alkan - Preludes Op. 31 would be amazing to see you play!
In the fourth measure of the fugue you throw a high A in there with your left thumb that is not in the sheet music. I like it! Is that something you've seen somewhere else?
No offense, but what's the difference between using a harmonic pedal and keeping the sustain pedal halfway down?
Beautiful playing. However, you are ignoring the fingering as indicated in the score. As an instructional video, it would be more helpful to students to follow the fingering or "white it out" imho.
Hi Paul, Big fan of yours!
I wanted to ask, if and where you studied music?
Did you visit a conservatorium? Did you study to become a concert pianist?
Do you give concerts from time to time?
Greetings from germany
psirus89 In one video he mentioned that he used to study to be a concert pianist, but it never really was something he enjoyed so he quitted (if I remember correctly)
Steven Polak thank you for the answer.
He plays so crisp and clear and his interpretations are so good.
His tutorials show so much knowledge, I figured he had to be a concert pianist.
I can understand him, though.
There is a difference if you want to practice 8 hours a day or have to.
Bravo!
wonderful.
Wow music perfect 😊
Where’s the soprano at the third part. The third part starts at row 12 right?
A perfect and cheerful performance! Thank you for sharing, I have never seen the fugue, so it will be a first for me. It looks doable. Should I be watching out for any particular areas, though that you know of, Paul?
not so good for me , but hey beauty is in the eye of the beholder and btw what do you think of my performance ( i play the same prelude and fugue)
th-cam.com/video/Rh9N6XfRSSo/w-d-xo.html
Beautiful voicing
Bill Evans said this is excellent practice material.
What was the need for making a 4-voice Fuge for the easiest prelude, Johann?
I note two "dislikes" from disgruntled harpsichord players :)
Or players who know how to properly phrase semiquaver arpeggios. ;)
***** Goody....looking forward to your upload of this work as played by you. The more, the better :)
Harry Andruschak looking forward for a harpsichord version worst than this one
@@Noah-wv4td The problem is you can hear accents where there should not be. Try articulating a phrase with a comma in the middle of a word. That's absolutely ridiculous.
@@harryandruschak2843 No inflation doesn't make anything bad turn into gold, quite the opposite. For the rest Google is your friend if you can use it.
Dear Barton,can you make a tutorial in this piece?i cant bring up the 4 voices of the fugue...
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1:45
1:55
I'm not very smart or in the know about piano but you play really well it was a nice sounding performance
On measure 23 the score does not show the F# returning to a natural, but thanks for the nive work done.
Very enjoyable!
バッハすきだからまた始めたい
Prelude 1 Two Hands: th-cam.com/video/SR5m7pW4Mpk/w-d-xo.html
Fuga 1, there.. I´m sometimes confused because of the hand (right or left), What are the rules for that? I´m sorry if it´s kind of silly guestion. I´m a beginner "in reading music sheets". Have a nice day. And thank you, your work it´s really inspiring.
Left generally plays bass clef (below middle C, C4, and right hand plays treble (everything above C4) and the music will normally tell you otherwise
i have to play this for a classical music contest and i thought it was decently easy but i'm reading the comments and now i'm scared
It is easier than all inventions, so ITS really easy.
Ps: only this one is easy the rest is medium or "hard".
@@Pedro-pc1qx the prelude is kindergarten level but the fugue can knock you out cold
Great work man, keep it up 👍 👍
I played the prelude last year and this year while preparing for exams my teacher suggested it. Why did noone prepare me for this fugue jesus
learning it for class
Is there a missing measure (after 22) 1:24 ?
TheTage Show why can’t I play Ave Maria with this. Did Gounod add a measure?
@@knock4321 yes, Gounod added some measures.
2:10 fugue
Paul do you use the pedal at all for the prelude? Your videos are inspiring thank you
What piano model is that? Great song.
Damn tonight is the night. I have to perform this :/
Fugue 2:11
Well done. But : bar 23 in the original score is missing here !!! Left h. Bass g and ess, Right hand h-c-ess.....h-c-ess. Then what you play as bar 23 is actually bar 24, and then the rest ! How could this happen ?? Can't you hear it ?
perfect as usual