Beyond the Notes: Bach, D Major Prelude, WTC book 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 2023
- Music goes directly to our hearts and souls. It connects on an emotional level, which is great. But why is that? In this series you and I are searching for some elements, details sometimes even, that can (a little bit) "explain" that connection.
Here: Bach's Prelude in D Major from his Well-Tempered Clavier book 1, BWV 850
Buy the recording of the WTC1 here: www.authenticsound.org/bachwtc1
Background music:
'Glow' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
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I always felt it as a duet in the right hand
This prelude is pure music, not a script for an industrial style sound production. Singing and talking instead of converting humans into machines. Well done, Wim
Perfect, I'm learning this now. I'm able to appreciate Bach much more played like this, and on a harpsichord/period piano, though personally I'd prefer it just a bit faster. Gonna enter this in a competition soon, but I'll relearn it more like your way after for a harpsichord cover. Very fascinating talk... from a mere technical exercise to a good story!
EDIT: I went for a steady yet staccato style like Masaaki Suzuki instead. I prefer it to be staedier while the staccato still makes those notes stand out
I appreciate your score analyses. The colors show clearly how the various elements relate to each other.
I taught it to my left hand as an excercise. One that I recommend.
Brilliant!!!
Stravinsky spoke Truth when he said, "Music doesn't MEAN anything."
I really love these types of videos! Im so thankful for you making these. 🙌
Wonderful!
Bravo. It is the difference between an organic interpretation and a mechanical one; artisan culture vs industrial civilization.
Thank you very much Mr Winters.
You gave my some fundamentals interpretation’s keys I’was looking for to give more meaning to the notes => becoming naturally musical !
artful and imaginative. very nice!
Very nice and thoughtful.
Wonderful analysis!. It works for me.
thank you so much! great video, well done 🎥
This album is the closing of a circle for me... If it weren't for deep reflection about the Tempo of these pieces, I wouldnt be here. Playing with midi files, understandind what worked or fell appart with too slow or fast a speed, and the narrow range that made it all work. I never needed to be convinced about what I figured out on my own.
The more I study this prelude and others, I picture Bach and his large extended family "Jamming" to all hours of the night on string instruments. It is possible to "Swing" the right in as well as inegales. To play this in a "Teletype manner" or "Hanon" automaton fashion is to ignore the composers intention. Slowing everything down allows the ear to hear the inner lines of harmony, allowing us to savour the performance. Bach moved at walking pace- I can't see him jogging or sprinting in a time before trains, planes, automobiles. There would have been no rush to complete a performance. Consider "Rap" music that fires word salad at a rapid rate- you slow it down and it reveal the vacuous nature of the composition. On the other hand, Bach remains quite pleasant to listen to - although many times you will immediately hear a mistake if you stray from the intended harmony!
Thank you, Wim! Another great production! I learned so much! Bach is truly like Shakespeare in that each performance yields so much introspection.
Wim, I don't know if you are familiar with the German organist WOLFGANG STOCKMEIER but he plays bach complete organ work and he plays it a little slower than nowadays . I like his playing . We hear more music , this way .
I have a book that talks about this type of inequality in German baroque music.
@@chlorinda4479 Of course. It’s called “Bach and the Baroque” A performing guide to baroque music with special emphasis on the music of J.S. Bach. If you find the book, read pages 58-59. It really starts talking about the subject at the top of page 59. Great book!! The author is Anthony Newman.
I had to study this and hated it. After watching this I finally understand. Great!
It’s EXACTLY how I like to play it. To me this Prelude reminds the Adagio of BWV 1018.
I heard a pianist play this at crotchet 172. No Joke! I checked it over and over! She had me howling in stiches!
Also Gould...
O.K. Rather speculative and imaginative but entertaining
I call it the 'Butterfly' prelude
A beautiful exegesis, Wim.
BACH WTC I, BWV 866 video????
Why the background muzak? Just why?
Agreed, I couldn't watch the video. Looking at the Bach score whilst different background music is playing is just so confusing. Sorry Wim, I love your work but please don't do this! It's like listening to two languages at once - my brain just switches off.
Kickstarter for CDs!? You need a Bandcamp page that would let you produce all this merch without the headache. You're working too hard when there is a platform that makes it easy.
I would love to hear your interpretation of Brandenburg 2. I'm practicing to play it with my baroque ensemble this fall. That's another piece with a lot of groups of four 16th notes usually played very fast.
Grazie!Wim sempre eccezionale!
Violin bowing: 1 + 3? - down bow on first semiquaver, next three on an up bow.
Modern bow, or baroque bow?
@@Audra-ri2fe Either? Could one use a modern bow and try to make it sound like the effect of a baroque bow? What do you think?
@@petertyrrell3391 Well, some violinist who is also skiing explained the modern bow is like old long downhill ski, while short and shaped differently baroque bow is like carving ski, much more suitable to change direction much faster and more often.
@@Audra-ri2fe I am no expert on skiing, but any competent violinist could play this piece slower or fast. It is more of a question of what the music demands - is it just a finger velocity exercise, which is often how it is played?
@@petertyrrell3391 baroque bow and modern bow are extremely different. Baroque bow is shorter, plus has another shape. Shape is the reason why - differently from modern bow - you won't get same pressure on strings at different sections of the bow. So to play baroque bow requires a different bowing technique, much faster bowing and more frequently changing bow direction. Baroque composers knew the boundaries of their contemporary equipment, and wrote their music accordingly. On a modern bow, you can simulate it - the other way around it's impossible.
The D Major Prelude, a beautiful Annecdote told to a close friend, one of the Praeludiums from W F Bach's notebooklet.
An after thought, the 17th work in its earliest form in the W F Bach Notebooklet, the fourth prelude in order that would later in a revised form become part of the Well Tempered Clavier (with the addition of the 32nd note Cadenza and the two chords before the final measure) found 16 works before the C major invention. In the WFNB, the earliest form of the d minor preludecomes before it.
Are there plans to do a LP of the WTC recording?
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Thank excellent lesson. I love Bach as a composer and love his works but I could not listen to his works more than 5 minutes...unless it is oboe orchestra and voice. Why I do not know. His tic tac movement disturbs me. I do not think I am the only person that has this problem. If I hear Vivaldi or Handel or Scarlatti everything is ok with Bach I have problems why? Can you give me an explanation? Thank you.
alas the keyboard sounds like a banjo...
Sounds wrong
Wonderful!