Muchas gracias. Estar acompañada y disfrutar este Arte de la fuga de nuestro amado J. S. Bach ha sido un placer inmenso en este domingo cálido y luminoso. Creo que los pájaros, mis compañeros, lo han disfrutado tanto como yo. Y las plantas en su quehacer verdoso y colorido lo han incorporado también a sus bellas almas ❤
On this same channel I find Robert Hill on harpsichord ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Tp0C9dth-Iw.html more convincing because it’s more sophisticated.
The sound, playing, and character of this recording is amazing! The constant arpeggiation gets on my nerves after a while. Is this a performance practice thing, were solid chords not played on lute? Honestly asking, this is an interesting approach.
If I recall correctly, on plucked-string instruments of this time period, because, as a result of the using gut strings, the sustain on the notes was not very long, it was often assumed that the performer would arpeggiate the chord, in order that it would sound out longer and fuller, and therefore it is not always written in scores of the baroque period. Another characteristic of baroque music scores is that there is more freedom of interpretation given to the performer, i.e. few indications of dynamics, ties, and so forth, so it is possible that one could play the chords without arpeggiation, and still be somewhat historically informed in one's performance, but that would inevitably be a matter of interpretation on the part of the performer.
