This account of Bach’s genial D minor re-working for organ of the fugue from the Violin partita G minor is very fine: reading the scores while watching, first that of bwv 1001, 2 and then of bwv 539, 2, is a good idea. A person familiar with the corresponding bars of the (later) organ work bwv 539,2 might expect to find an E natural on the last beat of bar 83 in the holograph MS of the original Violin Partita (G, F#, F natural, E natural, E flat) but Bach wrote two E flats. He notated the first E flat as an accidental and the flat sign looks intentional. Hmm!
This account of Bach’s genial D minor re-working for organ of the fugue from the Violin partita G minor is very fine: reading the scores while watching, first that of bwv 1001, 2 and then of bwv 539, 2, is a good idea.
A person familiar with the corresponding bars of the (later) organ work bwv 539,2 might expect to find an E natural on the last beat of bar 83 in the holograph MS of the original Violin Partita (G, F#, F natural, E natural, E flat) but Bach wrote two E flats. He notated the first E flat as an accidental and the flat sign looks intentional. Hmm!
Hauntingly beautiful!