Tonebase Bach Stage
This thread is dedicated to J.S. Bach keyboard music. We would like to renew the inspiring spirit of the old thread "Group-Journey through J.S. Bach" based on the inventions and extend to the entire Bach repertoire: inventions, preludes, fugues, toccatas, dances of the Suites and Partitas...
This is for everyone who wants to join!
We can enjoy Bach music together and motivate each other in the process of learning and practicing it!
"I begin every day with Bach - usually for about an hour. I used to torture myself with Czerny, which of course wasn't exactly stimulating for the mind. On the other hand, it teaches you the fingering for a B flat major scale, chromatic thirds, and so on. The daily grind of learning. Later, I discovered that I could get my 'training' under way better with Bach - a refreshment for the body, soul and spirit". (András Schiff, Music Comes Out of Silence, p. 21)
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What is the mystery, the fascination, behind musical canons in Bach?
Are they a challenging puzzle, a demonstration of compositional mastery, or a symbolic representation of order within chaos? (In Bach's case, this last idea often carried religious connotations).
Anyway, here is the ninth variation of the Goldberg Variations (Canone alla Terza; canon at the third): poetic, meditative, beautiful...
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Hello. I joined the group recently and am getting back to playing after having stepped away from playing the piano for more than 20 years. Here's my first Bach Little Prelude in D Major (BWV 925) that I'm working on. Wish I could play it with more sensitivity and fluidity but am glad to be reacquainting myself with Bach's piano pieces. It's such a pleasure to see all the beautiful recordings done by folks in this group! Very inspirational.