New Bach Video - Fugue n 3 in C-Sharp Major BWV 872 WTC 2

carmelo.paolucci wrote:

Dear Friends,

Bach Fugue n 3 in C Sharp Major BWV (à 3) has a short theme, yet not so short as Debrois van Bruyck imagines; in mistaken fashion he only reckons up to the entry of the second voice. it starts with an ingenious stretto (alto = Dux in inversion). The remainder of the first period consists of an episode containing the inversion of the countersubject in the alto, and the inversion of the first thememember (4 notes) in the bass. The second period, which joins on, begins with another ingenious stretto of the theme (without inversion), and immediately afterwards, a second one with use of diminution, concluding freely in the key of the dominant. In both periods the elision of the unaccented opening measure of each half-section (i, 5) is strictly carried out. A third period, in which the Comes occurs in threefold stretto, with free ending, leads back to the principal key.
It should be noted how the task, which elsewhere (with long themes) is assigned to the separate theme entries, here falls to whole developments. The first development remains entirely in the principal key (according to
school rule, however, when the Dux remains in the principal key, the Comes should modulate to the dominant); the second modulates to the dominant; while the third, passing through the under-dominant (0a# = f#6) regains
the principal key. The exposition only comes to a close with this third development.
Turn on the audio and let me know what you think!
Greetings from Italy

Carmelo

This video was played with these settings:
Played on Yamaha P125 piano stage, Tamara House.                                                                                        Video Recording Samsung galaxy A54.
VST: Hamburg Steinway D Pianoteq Stage 8.4
Editing: Wondershare Filmora
https://youtu.be/GqsFhqfpyjs

Carmelo, your rhythm is so natural - this is a pure joy to listen to!
Your Bach Interpretations will always be contemporary, for my lifetime….I mean, it often feels to me as if you had lived at the same time as Bach, deeply influenced by Bach's harmonic clarity and sacred intensity. My opinion.  If I could see Bach sitting by your side, he would likely have the same concentrated posture as you.

And how amazingly you play the last 20 seconds of the piece, the very end of this fugue just seems to come from another world when you play it.

Great work!

Best wishes,

Stig

p,s

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