Tonebase Bach Stage

Juan Carlos Olite thank you so much for your kind words! It means a lot to me that you take the time to listen to my interpretation. 

Ursina Boehm fantastic playing Ursina, another worthy addition to your catalogue. Your characteristic clarity of line and thoughtful expression are on full display. It's so fascinating to watch the Partita take shape right before our eyes.  Thank you for sharing your journey with us.

Ursina Boehm Excellent playing, just what I need on a Sunday morning. 

Peter Golemme Thank you for listening 🥰

Larry K Thank you 😀

Ursina Boehm Ursina Boehm thanks for sharing your beautiful playing, rhythmic and yet with detailed shaping! This is so inspiring to listen to, and I look forward to more of your videos! 

Dustin Anderson Beautifully played! I love those long trills. He did write them, didn’t he? 

Bach is my number one streamed composer, lol, and is the reason I started studying the piano but his works seem to recede from me because of their difficulty.

Larry K Thank you Larry =) He did indeed write those long trills. They are a little unusual for Bach and one of the reasons this prelude and fugue has always been one of my favourites. 

I'm actually just a moderate Bach enthusiast compared to other composers but I was recently telling some others that it was a Bach minuet from French suites that really pulled me into the world of piano so I do understand! It is true much of his music is quite challenging--his fugues especially are a lot of work to play reliably and musically--but even his 'easier' pieces are all great. It is never really a bad thing to try playing any Bach. 

Dustin Anderson Yes, those trills are unusual. They struck me immediately.

To me, what makes Bach difficult is playing all of the small changes in the inner voices. It’s so easy to make a mistake in there with a note that moves half a step.

It so much easier to organize and strike a chord than it is to be constantly moving all of the voices.

I got to a point where I was playing some of the easier inventions with another classical guitar player but that introduced its own problems.

So, I thought I’d better learn the keyboard so that I could control all of the voices! Haha, that proved to be even harder.

Some crazy person arranged the Goldberg Variations for the classical guitar. The result was insanely difficult. The keyboard music is also difficult, sigh. 

I will keep trying. I don’t have anything better to do.