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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Well the plan worked and I did end up reviewing the fugue so here is Fugue in G Minor to go with the earlier prelude. With other goals on the horizon I am not sure how much longer I will be committing time to this piece, but it's been great to revisit one of my all time favourites of the preludes and fugues!
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Another step forward in my journey of learning the Partita No 6, BWV 830, by JS Bach. Here is my first recording of the Sarabande. I’ve started to learning this piece during the summer break. Last week, my new piano teacher gave me some helpful advice concerning the pulse and dance character of the Sarabande. With this in mind I decided to try a first recording of the whole piece. It still needs some time though. If you watch closely, you can see that I look very concentrated 😂
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Is the Bach Stage only for performances, or is it an appropriate place to post about Bach without posting a performance? I assume that would have to be in a different thread.
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Here are my takes on the C Minor Prelude and Fugue from Book 1 of the WTC, fresh off the Watch Party for the Tonebase challenge to work on these pieces with Dominic's Tracks. My version of the Prelude in particular was an avowedly and self-consciously 'experimental' approach, and deviated from many of Dominic's suggestions, while benefitting a lot from implementing some of them. I got a lot of favorable feedback from everyone, which I really appreciate. It attracted a lot of attention for being so different from a more historically authentic approach, but there's much to be said for the latter, and I'm also working on being able to play it in a more conventional manner. Dominic's Tracks provided truly excellent instructions on practicing and performing these pieces within the context of actual Baroque traditions and conventions, and there were many really good performances at the Watch Party faithfully implementing his advice, while each maintaining a unique and distinctive character. There is plenty of room within the Baroque conventions for putting your individual stamp on these pieces, and I commend the Watch Party recording to all of you interested in varying interpretations of this popular Prelude and Fugue.
so without further introduction, here is my version of the Prelude:
and here's the Fugue: