This is the interpretation I have been waiting for! I was getting sick of people playing this piece at crazy fast tempi. Sometimes you can barely hear music, but not here. I enjoyed every note
Beautiful venue and equally beautiful playing! The fugue was wonderfully performed, with all the organ-like fanfare that comes with the piece and its key.
I love the D Major Prelude and Fugue from Book I, one of my favourites. The Fugue just sounds so majestic, and has that magical, quintessential high Baroque sound.
Maestro Bracheta, excelente interpretación de este preludio y fuga. El vuelo que le dió a la fuga, las pausas...en fin, una versión que noe.canso de escuchar. Y el análisis que hace, una masterclass!!!
Bach's name in German means "brook" and this piece sounds to me very like a brook flowing and splashing over a rocky bed... but only at first, as it develops in so many unexpected ways.
I would have enjoyed it more if there were not so many tiny waitings, although the idea, not to play notes evenly like a machine is understandable. No problem with the Tempi.
Im trying to learn this piece right now and I don’t have a teacher. How do you select an appropriate tempo for baroque music? I’m using Henle Urtext edition of of the WTC and so there’s no tempo marking.
napoleon, I think michaelarnold’s line is too inaccurate. You say: «I’m using Henle Urtext edition of the WTC and so there’s no tempo marking.» There is both right and wrong. In the baroque period, heartbeat was used as an inaccurate metronome. Both the preludium and fugue have the time signature C. So here «tempo ordinario» applies about 60 heartbeats per minute, 60 crotchets per minute. You can find a lot of information about «tempo ordinario» on the internet.
I think they call this "historical" performance practice, other aspects of which I usually like, but this messing with the micro-tempi, this stuttering is certainly not what the prelude is about. The prelude has such a steady rhythm that absolutely doesn't need any augmentation.
