Home-studio video of this recording: • Bach/Friedman "Wachet ... Free sheet music in the public domain: imslp.simssa.c... My Patreon: / paulbarton for those that like to support online creators from as little as 1$ a month
I was wondering why there were so few views, most of the videos I come across are years old. Thanks for introducing this wonderful piece of music! Working on strengthening my fingers with Hanon's "The Virtuoso Pianist" exercises with some minor benefit from that also going to my ability to follow a time, so far it's all in 2/4 which I haven't used before, as well as faster and faster note recognition when playing from sheet music. My love for piano hasn't mellowed at all from the time I was a child!
Update, just got a replacement power supply for my keyboard. I'm going through all the books I used as a kid while also keeping a harder piece to practice on. Making sure that I can follow the exact tempo and play the music from the sheet is how I make those books meant for young beginner's still work for me. As a kid I would learn the timings not so much from note values but from just feeling the pulse of the music, which is to say I never learned to actually play with the music. My harder piece is the song "Unfinished Sympathy" but the piano arrangement from Maxence Cyrin. My fingers are far stronger now and I can lose myself playing with chord progressions (the simple ones), finding fun note combinations in scales of keys as well as the pentatonic notes in keys, and all that for well over an hour. The grind of practicing the piano that I could never get myself to do as a child is becoming a more and more regular habit when I just want to hear beautiful, harsh, dramatic, sweet, sounds coming from my piano. I would say I have still less than 24 hours total at the keyboard in a 12 month period, but the strides I have made have outstripped 8 years of lessons as a child. Play on my friends! (Sorry for the nonsensical sentence structure, I always breezed through English but this comment is a mess. You still get what I was saying though ;) )
Update: I have completed "Unfinished Sympathy" to a satisfactory degree and am a bit stalled. I am still playing it and trying to be intentional with different dynamics, so when I say I am stalled I do not mean that I am not playing at all, simply that I am not learning anything new at the moment. Piano Deuss has a great version of Evan Call's "Never Coming Back" which I am excited to begin because much like this piece it is something that I seemingly never tire of. But before I make any headway on that I have set the goal of completing at least the first page of BWV 645.
Update: I have everything on the first page done up until the accented section. Playing piano in one hand and forte in the other is something I can do, but playing piano with accents in the same hand is not something I have ever done before. Think I might need a piano teacher to get past this.
Undoubtedly a piece more well-known for its countersubject than the actual chorale melody. My only critique is that my ear caught a couple of trills that didn't start on the upper note, but other than that it is a 9.75/10 performance.
I might be wrong, but I've always heard that trills, specially during the baroque period, were very free to play, they were really at the players taste and interpretation, some players even ignore them depending on their interpretations. (Sorry for the probably bad spelling, english is not my first language).
@@lawofseven1465 You're not wrong, it is mostly up to individual interpretation, especially when it comes to avoiding dissonance. However, there is surviving academic works/treatises from the times on how to play the music at the time; namely J.S. Bach's son, C.P.E. Bach, wrote a treatise on how to play trills on the keyboard and these indicate that the trill starts on the upper note unless it has a downward flourish on the first part of the trill symbol.
Great Paul! Do you know the transcription by Wilhelm Kempff? Worth checking out. I think the placement of the chords and the choral melody is way better
Ho @dannyhuynh-nguyen6911 I try to link to free sheet music downloads available at the time I uploaded the video. When sites change the video links become invalid. I am very sorry.
