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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I’m relearning the prelude and fugue in A minor from the WTC II, BWV 889 during the summer holidays: here’s a first recording of the prelude, so it is still work in progress. I hope to make a recording of the fugue by the end of the month. Best regards from Switzerland 😃🎹😃
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"It's one of the few in the whole set where my feeling of what's at the core of it is primarily a kind of an emotional image. I always get this image of two teenagers, young people at a dance, and they're dancing together for the first time. I just think one hand is one person and the other hand is another person. And they're kind of shy, they're just getting to know each other...". Beautiful image in the description of pianist Dan Tepfer (The Thirty Bach podcast, episode 4). Beautiful and really inspiring image to play and enjoy the seventh variation of the Bach's Goldberg Variations.
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Hello everybody, I’ve recently posted a first recording of the prelude in A-Minor of the WTC II, BWV 889. Here is now my first recording of the fugue that goes with it. Still work in progress though. But my goal was to make a first recording by end of August. So here it is with all its imperfection 😃🎹😃