Bach - WTC I Prelude and fugue no. 12 in F minor BWV 857 - Dirksen | Netherlands Bach Society
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- The Prelude and fugue in F minor, performed by Pieter Dirksen for All of Bach, has a dark character. Often the preludes and fugues in the Wohltemperirte Clavier are opposite in character. However, not in this case. The melancholy atmosphere is already firmly established in the prelude, and it remains throughout.
Recorded for the project All of Bach on January 16th 2014 at Culemborg, The Netherlands. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/2uZuMj5.
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Pieter Dirksen, harpsichordist
Harpsichord: Sebastián Nuñez after Johannes Ruckers, Utrecht 1996
0:00 Prelude
2:30 Fugue
0:07 Prelude
2:30 Fugue
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3:30 prachtige spreuk -
de muziek,
metgezellin van de vreugde,
geneesmiddel voor de smarten.
I was having a hard time in life and when I listened to this, tears started to fall off. I don’t know why, but I kind of feel how hard Bach’s life could have be.
The inscription on the harpsichord is "Musica Laetitia Comes Medicina Dolorum" - Music is happiness as medicine for our sorrows......very true
No it means.
Music
Companion of joy
Medicine of sorrows
I recommended this channel to all my friends. One of the best high quality sources of Bach recordings.
arya k *I am agree.*
Thanks to the great Cinematographers and Audio Engineers
Rare to see such fine performances of Bach coupled with cinematography like this. Just sub'd & I look forward to exploring more!
This is a much warmer sounding harpsichord than is played in the other pieces earlier in this series (e.g. BWV 854-856). All masterfully played and a real joy from the sharing thereof.
I'm a pianist, but I usually get bored listening to Bach on the modern piano. Still Bach is my favorite composer. This performance on the Harpsichord just bring Bach back to live!! Thank you ^_^
I like Bach on the modern piano
@@elenitapianohoy3114 I don't like bach on modern piano. Modern piano notes decay too quickly, reducing the harmonic effect of some sections that require notes to be sustained for a long time.
Similar case with me. I do lately come to Harpsichrsord when studying Bach work, it feels authentic. And this kind of inégale is difficult to do.
Unfortunately I sometimes get the same feeling. Theres incredibly small differences in pianoforte recordings, everyone plays in the same beautiful but mechanical and tedious manner, and extremely few really take advantage of the expressive potential of the piano, without it becoming romantic. It's like they copy harpsichord players without bringing out the expressiveness that are in the music, so you might as well listen to harpsichord and organ. I sometimes search for piano recordings of Bach works I know well, but all I usually get is someone trying to play like a harpsichord, just too fast
Tatiana Nikolayeva, Rosalyn Tureck, Emil Gilels are all pianists who play Bach on the modern piano and make it sound perfect without over romanticizing their interpretations. They also don't play too fast most of the times. Nowaways its become harder to find "slower" Bach on modern piano, but there's a looot of excellent recordings from the 20th century
Definitely one of my favorites from both books. How I wish I could try this on a harpsichord myself...
A majestic fugue magisterially performed.
Bello vedere ed ascoltare tutti i magnifici interpreti e le loro versioni su Bach, intelligente lavoro di gruppo molto democratico
I like this interpretation. It brings out the development of rhythmic motifs inherent in Bach's work.
Göttlich! So ein schönen Kanal. Alles über das Genie J. S. Bach 💖
A really lovely-sounding instrument, beautifully played. 👍 ❤️
Beauty itself: everything! - the prelude and fugue, the performance and the sound of the instrument.
Thanks Pieter for showing us how J.S. Bach can be played in a most authentic, stylish and expressive way (and without indulging at all in that recent over-rubato over-flexible almost-unmeasured way that is becoming so common lately). A masterly performance indeed, an example for us all.
I swear, all harpsichords have cool latin epithets on them
Well at least the Flemish Harpsichords that didn't have paintings, decorated with papers, and weren't redecorated after petit or grand ravalement often had Latin Mottos. English, Saxon, Austrian, French, Italian, and 18th Century Harpsichords from the Low Countries didn't in general feature this decoration.
Simplicidade, beleza e sofisticação, são dessas qualidades que o mundo precisa, e é o que eu encontro nessa peça.
Mooi gespeeld Pieter! Bedankt om up te loaden.
Dam nice interlude to an quiet evening, listening to this with a nice glass of red... Thank you!
@The Red Pill , so is being a pill. You're well named.
@The Red Pill Thank you for your concern. I'm aware of the recent studies that claim that there is no safe limit. But another side to this is that there is evidence that "Light to moderate drinking is linked to a reduced risk of heart disease". Drinking alcohol in moderation appears to reduce insulin resistance, fighting the main symptoms of diabetes. In fact, red wine is linked to more health benefits than any other alcoholic beverage
I had about 1 and 1/2 glass's of red wine last night over a 3 hour period and this was my first drink in about 6 days. I have seen what alcohol can do and for some people and it is very destructive. But for me - I think I have an ok balance with the so called toxin in my life. Again thank you for your concern.
@The Red Pill Ahh I see, "levels of awareness" and "functioning" now I know what you are! :-)
@The Red Pill What am I denier of? We have different opinions that is all. And probably very different approaches to life. I'm happy and I hope you are as well.
@The Red Pill , stop being a busybody. I'd venture to guess that busybodies cause more heartache for the human race than the intelligent consumption of alcohol ever could. Jesus turned water into wine, which gives alcohol consumption some credibility with me.
The translation of the inscription on the back of the lid is:
Musica
Laetitiae comes
Medicina dolorum
Music
Companion of joy
Medicine of sorrows
Amazing! Thanks for posting!
Wonderful. Thank you.
Wonderful!
An impeccable performance and a very pleasant harpsichord tone, though the range is somewhat narrow - G-D instead of "standard" F-F . This makes it impossible to perform on this instrument the works of CPE Bach (who used the upper F in almost every keyboard piece of his). On the other hand, both volumes of WTC with all their wealth of various moods and forms strictly fit into 4 octaves, allowing to perform this cycle even on the most humble of instruments. An amazing feat only a genius could create.
F-F was surely not "standard" in Bach's time. If F-F was standard, then why did Bach have to transpose his harpsichord arrangements of his own string concertos down a whole step for performance at the Leipzig Collegium Musicum concerts in the 1730s? Bach ran a harpsichord rental business; if F-F was standard, surely he must have several F-F harpsichords he could have used for the concerts. While there are some Bach keyboard works that go below the great C, none go above c3 (i.e., 2 octaves above middle c).
@@herrickinman9303 "The traditional pitch range for a 5-octave instrument is F1-F6 (FF-f‴)", that's what Wiki says. This applies at least to French instruments - looking at the scores of Rameau and Couperin and many other French we see that they loved the rumble of low bass :^) Transpositions are an interesting issue that could be connected to temperation and tuning pitch - Bach's famous equal temperation did not become THE standard all at once. Handel, for example, had his reasons to reject it (so with him we see only tonalities not exceeding 4 sharps or flats). So we might say that F-F was the standard compass for big concert instruments (even Mozart did not go beyond that range in his concerti) and G-D for most harpsichords likely to be found at home, typical for Handel's pieces.
Sehr schön!
Simplemente maravilloso.
Beautiful.
Gracias y saludos cordiales desde Mallorca para vosotros
Wunderschön! Danke!❤👍❤
Geweldig gedaan door Pieter
What a deep contrst between y this prelude and fugue in F minor from WT1 and its counterpart in WT2! Many piano lovres play - or at lesat try to play- WT2, with eloquent prelude, its parallel sixths and play betwwen the two hands, na d its quite exuberant fugue which looks like a fugue thet Mozart will wtrite later on for strings or two pianos the theme is qiute typical of many fugues in minor mode, linking a perfect minor chord to a dyminished seventh one), ans the intimacy and total interiority of this prelude and fugue here in WT1 !
Hmmmm, lovely performance. But I just forgot that not all harpsichords have the "switched" color configuration like the period fortepiano.
Wunderbar!
Gracias
De nada
Wunderbar
Bravo.
musica, comes laetitiae, medicina doloris--true enough
Excellent playing....I noticed a bit of ‘notes inégales’ here which I thoroughly applaud. Also, the tempo wasn’t Allegro vivace con brio, which anytime there are sixteenth notes or faster the usual virtuoso/show-off performer plays at breakneck speed until the notes all became a wash of sound. So kudos on the bravery of performing this piece your way!
Excellent!! I’m actually starting to prefer Bach on the harpsichord rather than the piano.
Maybe because the music was written for nothing else than a harpsichord and Bach made it sound good for this instrument and for nothing else (except maybe the organ).
DAOFB This music is very effective on harpsichord and organ because it does not require dynamic range at all. It’s multilinear music. The intricacy of the musical pattern requires only two dimensions: pitch and time. It does not require dynamic contrast and dynamic variation to be effective. A piano adds a third dimension - dynamic range, very soft to very loud - which gives music a sense of depth, but because the voices in this music are all of equal value, dynamic contrast is unnecessary.
Both instruments offer their own unique charms.
@@syourke3 The thematic subject is somehow still need to be emphasized to a certain degree.
@@mochdrew3364 which on the harpsichord is possible
Merci.
FAB !!!
In his brilliant lecture no5 (The 20th Century Crisis) from the 6 part Unanswered Question Lecture Series; Bernstein uses this fugue as an example pre20th Century use of near Tone Row configuration.
💙💙💙
Ist sehr gut
Civilization survives.
Chill bro
I think it's time for BWV 847
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와..이쁘다
Es klingt einfach. Bach muss nicht schwer sein!
Martin H ha! If only! :)
@@jeffg5179 No, seriously. Bach was not trained by Czerny. We have much better piano players today. They all make something wrong. Bach was a composer and knew his own pieces. He wrote his compositions in a way, that playing was easy for him.
What made the difference to nowadays harpsichordists? We can hear a part of the answer in this Derksen video.
@@martinh1277
Schwachsinn!! Bachs Musik ist nicht von dieser Welt.
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Is there a need to hold the long notes on harpsichords?..
Kind of. AFAIK, as you cannot really do big dynamics as you can do on the modern pianoforte, you can stress the importance of a note by holding it (more or less) slightly longer
The thing about the whole harpsichord and piano thing is, I think you can of course play them on both. But when you are talking about what Bach had in mind. I know Bach likes the evenness of voices and the sound of the harpsichord. I just think Bach would have wrote different pieces had he owned a modern Steinway piano.
don't forget the clavichord and the chamber organ, definitely intended in more than a few of the 48!!
Note nette e pulite ogni una di esse assume un valore di estrema bellezza, l'unione di esse in euritmia rappresentano l'infi ito sulla terra.
Smukt lyrisk musik spillet på et cembalo. Fint.......
This is what a German was when god was still the ideal we aspired to.
I heard in e flat minor🤔
For period performances, we typically observe A=415 for music of this era. So, you're technically correct if you're thinking in terms of A=440.
That's a common problem for people born with ears tuned to A440. This instrument is apparently tuned to French chamber pitch aka Tief Kammerton.
Quite nice. Though some registral contrast WITHIN each piece would have been good.
Harpsichords have that chunky sound. Noice
I would be slightly disturbed, as a performer, I suppose, by the sumptuousness of the instrument´s visual embellishments.
... but then that’s only my superficial self.
Three thumbs down from J S Bach should only be played on the Steinway Piano (and they don't like the harpsichord) people.
Gracias
De nada