Handel - Fugue in E Minor, from HWV 429. Piano: Mikhail Petukhov.
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- A simply brilliant fugue by one of the greatest genius of the Baroque - George Frederic Handel, from the Suite No.4 in E Minor, HWV 429.
Performer(s): Mikhail Petukhov - recording: • Glenn Gould - Handel S...
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I thinks this is Handel's most beautiful keyboard fugue. It's also his most difficult!
This magnificent fugue ranks Händel as one of the greatest masters of this musical form.
Astonishing fugue by 'the Master'. Relentless drama with brief interludes of relative calm...basically a whirlwind of blazing polyphony. The first 3 notes of the subject toll like the bell of fate or warning which are swept away by a tornado of 16th notes. The bells continue to ring of course and are blown aside with every repetition. He staggers the subject entrances from beat 1 to beat 3 and halves the subject while layering it with modulating entrances. The sequential interludes lengthen, new counter subjects appear and the voice leading range expands as the piece drives the end. A tour de force by the master of dramatic polyphony.
I tend to find Handel's counterpoint more transparant, and purely as a listening experience more satisfying, than Bach's. Bach often awes and overwhelms me with his majestic skillfulness and ingenuity, but Handel often hits closer to my heart.
I find much of Bach's polyphony too dense and preoccupied with form and structure over function. Yes, it might be a wonderous edifice but at the same time it's impenetrible and frankly, bloodless. Handel, meanwhile molds his counterpoint for a purpose, be it drama, celebration, even humor. In his ‘One Note Fugue’ from the concerto Grosso Op.6 #7 he is saying "I can write a wildly good fugue with more dash and harmonic interest with "1" note than you pikers can with 12."
@@AbdelOveAllhan, you are right. That's why Mozart preferred Handel's fugal style to Bach's. When Mozart began to write his own dense fugues one feels the influence of Handel more than Bach. Example: this choral fugue compared to Kyrie from Mozart's Requiem: th-cam.com/video/8_RXNXmPccI/w-d-xo.html . That said, Mozart succeeded in writing according to Bach's structural rigor (at bar 73 the subject and its inverse are superimposed, divided by the total number of bars, this gives the golden ratio) to mix with melodic fantasy and this gave this fugue (which Bach could NEVER have done): th-cam.com/video/oNrM37AYxfc/w-d-xo.html
Bach wrote mostly for the church, while Handel wrote mostly for the theatre
I agree. Complexity is not automatically superior. Often clarity wins. Handel is my favorite of all time.
@@DaninMaine, that's right. And the goal of music is to produce feelings and sensations, and not to be as complex as possible, otherwise it's not music. That said, I continue to believe that this Handel fugue still has a complexity despite the fact that it is very lyrical.
this song literally made me start practicing piano everyday just over a week ago. this stuff moves you
¡Es una Fuga genial!
Ah, just yesterday I happened to listen and read closely the A-minor fugue from the six little fugues for keyboard instruments, which has the theme, also used in "He smote all the firstborn" in Israel in Egypt. A quite complex and masterfully executed fugue.
A have always loved Bach, but Handel at his best have a certain majestic quality.
Потрясающая фуга. Побольше фуг Генделя
Brilliant.
Wonderful 👏🏻
I'm in love with this fugue 😍 that counterpoint is pure gold! Handel also wrote spectacular choral fugues, like the final chorus of Dixit Dominus, which is wildly difficult to sing
I love this fugue too I recommend looking at Manuel ponce prelude and fugue on a theme by Handel it’s base on this fugue and I really enjoy it
Amen of Worthy is the lamb too of Messiah
Troppo bella!!! 😊
che bella!!!
Hermosa
1:19 - 1:31 for some reason i can't get rid of this specific passage. it keeps popping in my mind at random times !
Oh shit why is this so much clearer than a Bach fugue to me lmao
Handel tends to use more consonant counterpoint, has a more "proclamatory" quality in his melodic writing and tends to not overcrowd his countrapuntal texture. So... yes, maybe it is much clearer in these ways. I definitely prefer his style to Bach's.
This fugue has very good motility, it progresses at a meaningful pace both in terms of technicality and tonality. One thing a lot of composers of fugues tend to get wrong is that the fugue tends to get "constipated" where it doesn't go anywhere meaningful in terms of ideas and consistency of pace/technique. J.S. Bach is still the undisputed master of the fugue, but with this example, being expertly interpreted, G.F. Handel is no slouch either.
This piece made me apreciate even more Bachs fugues, some how Bach music is better, the only obvious flaw I can see in this fuge is the ending, witch I find a little abrupt, but saying that I cant even compose a fuge as good as this Handel fuge. Thats how good Bach was.
The subject of this fugue reminds me a little of this fugue by Buxtehude (in the same key):
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pretty sure i don't understand this piece
Just enjoy ;)