The recording engineer is as much to be praised as the excellent harpsichordist. The full beauty of the performance comes through as clearly as if one were present.
Indeed, technical team typically does not get any credit, even when the mention would be well deserved. Nowadays people take for granted the existence of recorgings. :)
Christine Schornsheim, harpsichordist Harpsichord: Bruce Kennedy, 1989 after Michael Mietke - Bach - WTC II Prelude and fugue no. 9 in E major BWV 878 - Schornsheim | Netherlands Bach Society 23.278 visualizzazioni 27 dic 2022 This no. 9 from the second 'Wohltemperirte Clavier' opens with a refreshingly light prelude, used by the Swingle Singers for their legendary album Jazz Sebastian Bach (1963). This is followed by an ingeniously constructed fugue, in which Bach systematically and very comprehensibly explores all sorts of contrapuntal possibilities. Twenty years after his first collection of music in every key imaginable, Bach completed a second 'Wohltemperirte Clavier'. We recorded his first book of Preludes and Fugues at the homes of 24 different musicians. For this second part, performed in its entirety by Christine Schornsheim, we chose 12 very different locations in Utrecht, to celebrate the 900th anniversary of our home city. Recorded for the project All of Bach on 23 September 2022 at Metaalkathedraal, Utrecht, the Netherlands. - 0qp9vJ_hG7I -
Wunderschöne und detaillierte Aufführung dieses perfekt komponierten Tastenwerks im gut betrachteten Tempo mit klarem doch warmherzigem Klang des technisch fehlerlosen Cembalos und mit sorgfältig kontrollierter Dynamik. Echt intelligente und geniale Cembalistin!
Incredibly beautiful, poetic, searching, inspiring, spiritual. Even in today’s age of impossibly high standards of musical interpretation, this performance shines like a star…
Wonderful music, this Prelude and Fugue no 9! And Christine Schornsheim has all what it takes to make this music complete justice. This idea about choosing twelve very different locations in Utrecht seems to be a success!!! Congrats from Sweden.
TV LG Oled C2 77", source RME ADI-2 PRO FS R optical to aes-ebu, LR Genelec 8341A, SW Genelec 7360A. The image and sound of this video, a wonderful experience. Thank you very much to NBS and merry christmas.
Lovely ornamentation in the repeat of first section. refreshingly inventive. Thank you Frau Schornsheim--I always learn something every time I listen to your work.
Lovely to listen to a sI'm working on playing this piece. The fugue that gave the inspiration for Love Changes Everything 😀 for those that don't know, listen to the opening bass notes.
Simply gorgeous interpretation of JSB amazing creative spiritual music! Best wishes from Appalachia Kentucky USA. Happy New Year Netherlands Bach Society and Lady Christine.
if you would like a more in depth look at some of the beautiful features of this fugue, watch the first 16 min or so here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-exD8bhJP1eo.html
Aquest es especialment bonic. Relentir el tempo per a deixar fluir la bellesa de la música; escoltar amb pausa i atenció per a gaudir del que la perfecció ens mostra. Em recorda Celibidache.
Technical question (hopefully not a dumb one) - how does someone 'page turn' with a digital device and no hands free to press anything? Is there a page turner standing by with bluetooth control or something? I don't think it can just be the editing.
As usual, excellent performance, very high sound quality and broken video. Very often the image is blurred. The cameraman certainly does not have the appropriate education and does not know how to set the appropriate aperture of the lens to get the depth of field. Maybe you need to change the cameraman? There are a lot of educated cameramen who know how to use a camera.
Looked fine in my screen. RU-vid sometimes lowers the quality by random. Maybe that was the case 😉. Besides it's all about the wonderful music, so enjoy it.
