Bach certainly loved C minor (and E flat), this one and the duo from the second book are full of religious symbolism. For starters, C minor is a key with 3 flats, representing the holy trinity. Bach was a very religious man and did this sort of thing often. For example, his Mathew’s Passion starts in E minor (Erde) and the final chorus ends in C minor. So we start on Earth and finish in Heaven. I could go into much more detail but youtube comments are not the place. :)
@@NM-ls3egWell I know that when Bach writes a long note on a motiv, It means something big and solemn, like god. Also, some motivs do have a cross like shape, like the one in the C sharp minor fugge: C sharp B sharp E D Sharp C sharp. Equilibrium.
Matt on, you may want to take a gander at channel where I discuss color and even shape relationships to specific notes. I have even developed a special keyboard based on these associations, my Musicolor Matrix. Your, _Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
I love your considered tempo and emphasis on the melodic notes. A lot of performers seem to be more keen to show off their virtuosity by taking the whole prelude at a gallop. The slower tempo you use emphasises the lyricism of the piece - and gives hope for piano students who, like me, might be struggling with it.
WIth Bach I've always sensed that there is more. And todaynyour explanation of that presto and the way you land on the e-natural made bachian sense, noit just a musical event. (The e-natiral really is final sunshine but it's still incomplete, requiring the echo of teh c. I love it.
Wonderful tutorial. Thank you. I especially enjoyed your ending. I was taught this piece (and the Fugue) over 50 years ago, and my piano teachers goal for the Prelude was for me to play it as fast as possible without freezing up. So I am delighted to hear your insightful approach of this Prelude. Much appreciated. 🇨🇦
I had to go immediately and play this again (piano, I'm afraid- I don't own a clavichord and I just started rebuilding my harpsichord), and it felt like an entirely new piece to me! After growing up with quite strict Bach interpretations being common (I'm 57), free, even Romantic interpretations like this make the music feel like it is finally able to escape; to escape the cold written notes and to come alive and communicate Bach's very deep emotions. Thank you for the inspiration!
Fue Maravilloso. Magistral. La Composición Literaria Coyuntural y estructural. Hecho para la Humanidad x Familia BACH Cuando todo estaba en pañales Aun se puede percibir Sabiduría Universal Gracias. Roberto Quijada Gopal
You gave me an idea that I never considered before, just playing the first note in each measure and then adding in more notes as you get more familiar. That's brilliant! Huge applause to you.
I like your interpretation very much, when I get out of hospital this is one of the pieces of music that I am looking forward to playing again, with your interpretation taken on board.
Nice very nice, just goes to show the genius of Bach, writes a series of pieces to show off the merits of a new tuning system, and yet in a prelude you can extract a story. You are a consummate teacher!
La musique de Bach en particulier laisse une grande liberté dans l'interprétation possible. Cela stimule la créativité, incite à recréer l'oeuvre pour la personaliser. Les interprétations différentes sont autant de variations sans cesse nouvellement écrites. Et toutes sont légitimes. Les interprétations en dehors des sentiers battus, comme justement celle de ce prélude par Gould, sont des garantes de la vie toujours fluide dans la musique.
My first hearing of this piece was on Walter (at that time, now Wendy) Carlos' Switched-On Bach, which was released in 1968. Ever since, that has been my interpretation -- on piano, which I played in C minor, F minor, and G minor (each has its own mood and feel). Hearing your analysis and interpretation today greatly broadened my narrow understanding. Many thanks.
What you say here is what makes Bach utterly unique in the history of Western music. Bach was familiar with some of his German and Italian antecedents which influenced his compositional style. I wish you could analyze Toccata Nona (First Book of Toccatas and Partitas, Vol 2) of Girolamo Frescobaldi. His play with harmonies and temperament is very interesting to me and marks his genius. Love your presentations.
My favourite Prelude and Fugue of the whole two books. Thank you, Wim. I had a bad day and your “review” (and playing) of this piece made me feel better. God bless you +
I'm collecting different parts of Beethoven's music to introduce the value of classical music to some students. Now after watching your VDO I take a step back. I never saw emotional interpretation like this on Bach. Thank you
While I happen to mostly disagree with your metronome/cut time discussions, this interpretation and discussion of the C-minor Prelude is quite wonderful. Including the tempo.
I keep coming back to this analysis, and as my music education improves the goal of being able to play this becomes ever closer. But you help me dream.
Thank you, this deep analysis is very impressive, and once again demonstrates the genius of Bach. Regarding the last E natural, I like your interpretation : Bass C for Earth, higher C for Heaven, and finally E for Human, flat or natural according to his mood... but I would like to recall an other possible reason, very basic indeed : It was very usual, not to say mandatory, from Renaissance to Baroque, AND SPECIALLY FOR ORGANISTS (I.e. church music), when a piece of music was written in minor mode to end up with a final chord in major - listen to Bach, Buxtehude, MA Charpentier, H. Purcell and dozens of other : D minor pieces finish with a F#, G minor with a B natural.... One reason given is that, when you play and then mute the final chord , the sound goes in reverberation all around the church, or cathedral and goes distorted when the chord is in minor. Probably real reason was more mystical.
Wirklich berührend diese persönliche Deutung dieses oft zu Tode gehetzten Präludiums ! Manche werden sagen : das ist " zu romantisch " für Bach, und das auch noch unter Berufung auf " die historische Aufführungspraxis ". Ich finde es mutig - und deshalb wertvoll, weil inspirierend, wenn ein Interpret seine persönliche Geschichte mit einem Musikstück erzählt. DANKE - und gerne weiter so ! Gruß aus Stuttgart, wo J.S. Bach vielfältig " gepflegt " wird ! Post Scriptum : 300. Geburtstag von Bach's Inventionen-Vorwort 1723 : " am allermeisten eine cantable Art im Spielen zu erlangen " ( das Video hier kann das auf sehr persönliche Weise veranschaulichen ).
This was my first contest piece in the seventh grade in Wisconsin. We were rated, not against each other, but on a scale of one to five. The judge was apologetic while giving me a two for not having played it fast enough. (I played it considerably faster than this demonstration.) Today I would deem that rating appropriate, but not because of the tempo. I was merely playing the correct notes. I was not, however, telling a story. Fifty years later I am again playing c-minor, this time the double concerto in a small local concert not far from Eisenach. I hope we will tell an interesting musical story at an appropriate tempo and with the correct notes. Thank you for this reminder about what really matters in music.
Now in my late 50s, an ardent amateur pianist, how often I wish that my childhood teachers, fine as they were and whom I loved, had imparted also that I was not just "playing the piano" but telling a story using the piano. Learning grammar is part of school, too. But even at the late teen and college level, the drive to the annual recitals was too often about getting notes under the fingers than what you are saying, like learning to recite a poem phonically. Most professionals play their instruments in settings where interpretation is less important or is given by another (conductor), producing a bias in music training.
40 years ago I listened to this movement. I was blown away. For me, it is a magical experience. Beyond the notes, did a good job of explaining the magic. Well, it is Bach and even in such a simple construction like this can you really understand what a genius is saying?
My connection with Bach's music is very mysterious. But hearing you talk about it is always a pleasure. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and knowledge. 🦫
This is wonderful Wim. Thank you for sharing your deep love of music and the fruits of all your in-depth studies. Anything which helps us get closer to the music of Johan Sebastian Bach is valuable and worthwhile. Wishing you the best - John
The Prelude dates from 1720, it’s the 15th work in Clavier-Buechlein for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach as the 2nd Praeludium in the early form. J N Forkel used in his edition published by Hoffmeister. Gerber’s copy ends with a mordant on the E natural in the last measure. Gerber studied with J S Bach in 1725. The Gerber manuscript also has the word Adagio in what has thought to be J S Bach’s handwriting in measure 25, three measures before the Presto, this indication is only found in Gerber’s manuscript, which along with JSB’s cousin Johann Walter and two other manuscripts contain the earliest version of WTC Pt 1. Future son in law J C Altnickol’s copy dates from the later years of J S Bach’s life and contains all the revisions not found in the earlier manuscripts, or of those the autograph which Bach altered.
This Prelude was never part of my piano lessons back in the days, but I always played it slower and more emotional than I knew it from any vinyl. To warm up your fingers, it's a nice exercise to play it fast, but there is no feeling at all. Thanks to RUclips I could listen to many others. Mostly fast and cold except for Glenn Goulds interpretation. The confirmation I was locking for ;-)
Mr Winters, Thank you for your artistry and inspiration. I appreciate your work and perspective in this and your other series. I am looking forwarding to more Beyond the Notes. I wish you health and joy and many more rapturous musical moments. -Dr D
Wim, This is a really nice series which makes us think more about the music than just the notes. When I had lessons in my latter years, my teachers would spend a good part of my lessons doing this kind of analysis. Today, this has become second nature to me and makes learning and playing music even more enjoyable as I seek out this in the music. If you were to do another piece, I would like you to continue with Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C#. There's a lot more to these two than meets the eye.
wonderful.. real music played and described by a real musician. Someone who really know, feals and seeks to understand... music. refreshing to say the least. I eas wondering if you could do something covering the evplution of Bachs work throught the years...
When I played this piece at school, I imagined a mysterious figure in the dark, walking quickly and decisively through a 1700s busy city in the evening, with a sense of great urgency or danger. All different city sounds and events happening all around, horse hooves clicking against the pavement. He eventually stops abruptly, hardly believing he had managed to reach his destination, and yet he hesitates to proceed forward. He eventually walks through the door with a feeling of momentary relief, but the real story is only about to unveil, the fugue begins... One of my favourite Bach pieces, loved your insights and interpretation, it motivates me to come back and learn it again as it's been years since I last played it.
Honestly, I have no story with this piece (except from hearing it), but I love the way you play it. It gives me just a small hope that I might play it someday.
this was so useful - I love this prelude for first half but never understood the second half until now! it's making me appreciate this prelude (and the ending) so much more. thank you!
thank you. this is the kind of step-by-step thinking and feeling that provides real insight to the listener who is not a musician. you are ideally articulate in both word and note to advance one's own experience.
This is one of my favorites. It is dark. Cold and drafty, candle lit, dark-castle dark. You really changed the way that is I hear this piece! Would you say that the clavichord is the most expressive of the keyboard instruments? The delicacy of the final notes you play in this piece can't be matched on piano or harpsichord.
There is not word to thank you for this BRILLIANT COMMENT, I’m studying Bach, that is wonderful and painful You have added a totally new dimension I’m jumping Thank you for sharing feelings and deepness and wonderful concepts This is what music is
I'm watching again after 4 more months of playing. I've been studying music theory, but I think I need to stop going further and train my ear. But listening to this I was able to pick out the notes you were talking about. That attests to your ability to accent the notes you want to come out, but I was happy that I feel I'm making progress.
Getting to the essence of music - that is the way. I completely agree because that is exactly what I feel myself when I play music-notes of pieces that I love, although I may realize it in another way - but the principle is the same. BRAVO! Excellent upload.
Phenomenal playing and musical breakdown, and the sonics remind me of Indian raga like music but straight from Bach right there. Thanks you for this! I'll have to watch it many times to understand it fully
I studied this prelude many years ago, on my own, and I’ve been realising how much more is in there. I don’t have the virtuosity of playing it with all I want to say, but I’m getting to know how much I leave aside. That’s part of the mystery of music.
Over the centuries Bach continues to be unrivaled.
Bach certainly loved C minor (and E flat), this one and the duo from the second book are full of religious symbolism. For starters, C minor is a key with 3 flats, representing the holy trinity. Bach was a very religious man and did this sort of thing often. For example, his Mathew’s Passion starts in E minor (Erde) and the final chorus ends in C minor. So we start on Earth and finish in Heaven. I could go into much more detail but youtube comments are not the place. :)
Hey, do you have more information/examples for the (religious) symbolism that can be researched?
@@NM-ls3egWell I know that when Bach writes a long note on a motiv, It means something big and solemn, like god. Also, some motivs do have a cross like shape, like the one in the C sharp minor fugge: C sharp B sharp E D Sharp C sharp. Equilibrium.
Matt on, you may want to take a gander at channel where I discuss color and even shape relationships to specific notes. I have even developed a special keyboard based on these associations, my Musicolor Matrix.
Your, _Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
I love your considered tempo and emphasis on the melodic notes. A lot of performers seem to be more keen to show off their virtuosity by taking the whole prelude at a gallop. The slower tempo you use emphasises the lyricism of the piece - and gives hope for piano students who, like me, might be struggling with it.
Bach is, indeed, a soulful storyteller
I love people who adore and talk about the phenomenal details of the greatest Musician of all times. So I love you too 🍒 👏🏼
An excellent analysis. This prelude is not "just a finger exercise": it is music !
What a wonderful revelation you had for this piece. I have to go to the piano immediately ! Thank you !!!
There's this feeling I have when sseeing someone so connected and so immersed with music, that gives me a lot of motivation
WIth Bach I've always sensed that there is more. And todaynyour explanation of that presto and the way you land on the e-natural made bachian sense, noit just a musical event. (The e-natiral really is final sunshine but it's still incomplete, requiring the echo of teh c. I love it.
Merci pour nous prendre par la main et apprendre a écouter avec le cœur et la sensibilité !
This is a very stormy piece but at the same time the hints of major keys is like a sun shining through the grey clouds
Wonderful tutorial. Thank you. I especially enjoyed your ending.
I was taught this piece (and the Fugue) over 50 years ago, and my piano teachers goal for the Prelude was for me to play it as fast as possible without freezing up.
So I am delighted to hear your insightful approach of this Prelude.
Much appreciated. 🇨🇦
Thank you Wim.
The final C maj is simply perfect.
I like your interpretation of this piece. The depth of JSB's music seems to require a lifetime of study and interpretation.
this was the song that started my serious keyboard playing over 25 years ago.
I had to go immediately and play this again (piano, I'm afraid- I don't own a clavichord and I just started rebuilding my harpsichord), and it felt like an entirely new piece to me! After growing up with quite strict Bach interpretations being common (I'm 57), free, even Romantic interpretations like this make the music feel like it is finally able to escape; to escape the cold written notes and to come alive and communicate Bach's very deep emotions. Thank you for the inspiration!
its like bach was only a pattern. a tips but not a piece. (but its the only one from bach lol)
11:56 Ah! Yes, the wonderful Tierce de Picardie! It uplifts my spirits at the conclusion of the Prelude…
Thank You!!! Love Bach forever!!! 👏👏👏🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶✨☀️✨☀️✨☀️🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🙏🙏🙏
I play this on a Yamaha P60 - I'll be playing now with all this mind. Thank you.
Fue Maravilloso. Magistral. La Composición
Literaria Coyuntural y estructural.
Hecho para la Humanidad x Familia BACH
Cuando todo estaba en pañales
Aun se puede percibir Sabiduría Universal
Gracias.
Roberto Quijada Gopal
You gave me an idea that I never considered before, just playing the first note in each measure and then adding in more notes as you get more familiar. That's brilliant! Huge applause to you.
I like your interpretation very much, when I get out of hospital this is one of the pieces of music that I am looking forward to playing again, with your interpretation taken on board.
Nice very nice, just goes to show the genius of Bach, writes a series of pieces to show off the merits of a new tuning system, and yet in a prelude you can extract a story. You are a consummate teacher!
La musique de Bach en particulier laisse une grande liberté dans l'interprétation possible. Cela stimule la créativité, incite à recréer l'oeuvre pour la personaliser. Les interprétations différentes sont autant de variations sans cesse nouvellement écrites. Et toutes sont légitimes. Les interprétations en dehors des sentiers battus, comme justement celle de ce prélude par Gould, sont des garantes de la vie toujours fluide dans la musique.
My teacher told me she never heard this prelude well played….your interpretation at the end is very interesting
My first hearing of this piece was on Walter (at that time, now Wendy) Carlos' Switched-On Bach, which was released in 1968. Ever since, that has been my interpretation -- on piano, which I played in C minor, F minor, and G minor (each has its own mood and feel). Hearing your analysis and interpretation today greatly broadened my narrow understanding. Many thanks.
What you say here is what makes Bach utterly unique in the history of Western music. Bach was familiar with some of his German and Italian antecedents which influenced his compositional style. I wish you could analyze Toccata Nona (First Book of Toccatas and Partitas, Vol 2) of Girolamo Frescobaldi. His play with harmonies and temperament is very interesting to me and marks his genius. Love your presentations.
My favourite Prelude and Fugue of the whole two books. Thank you, Wim. I had a bad day and your “review” (and playing) of this piece made me feel better. God bless you +
Very nice! Thank you for this video! I like it very much!
A little “as above, so below “… a little darkness; but in the end, one finds the light. I loved your interpretation!
I love Bach's prelude! The prelude of the Law.
This was my first prelude and fugue I learned. I enjoied your thoughts, thank you, Mr. Winters.
Never realised what this prelude was hiding!
Thanks so much!
I'm collecting different parts of Beethoven's music to introduce the value of classical music to some students. Now after watching your VDO I take a step back. I never saw emotional interpretation like this on Bach. Thank you
It is always a pleasure to listen to an old friend with a new understanding.
While I happen to mostly disagree with your metronome/cut time discussions, this interpretation and discussion of the C-minor Prelude is quite wonderful. Including the tempo.
I just started working on this piece. Your explanation is a huge help. Thank you.
I keep coming back to this analysis, and as my music education improves the goal of being able to play this becomes ever closer. But you help me dream.
I so enjoyed that! And yes, now I am smiling!
Thank you, this deep analysis is very impressive, and once again demonstrates the genius of Bach. Regarding the last E natural, I like your interpretation : Bass C for Earth, higher C for Heaven, and finally E for Human, flat or natural according to his mood... but I would like to recall an other possible reason, very basic indeed : It was very usual, not to say mandatory, from Renaissance to Baroque, AND SPECIALLY FOR ORGANISTS (I.e. church music), when a piece of music was written in minor mode to end up with a final chord in major - listen to Bach, Buxtehude, MA Charpentier, H. Purcell and dozens of other : D minor pieces finish with a F#, G minor with a B natural.... One reason given is that, when you play and then mute the final chord , the sound goes in reverberation all around the church, or cathedral and goes distorted when the chord is in minor. Probably real reason was more mystical.
Good observation! Makes sense to me that both interpretations are true. The world is made up octaves and their intervals. IMHO. Thanks.
Very nice contribution,- i like it!
Simplesmente muito bem interpretado com uma musicalidade pura.Parabéns.
you're an amazing musician with mind opening insights, thank you!
This post just came up on my feed. Cool stuff. Just subscribed. Thanks
Extraordinaria explicación , saludos desde Chile .
Wirklich berührend diese persönliche Deutung dieses oft zu Tode gehetzten Präludiums !
Manche werden sagen : das ist " zu romantisch " für Bach,
und das auch noch unter Berufung auf " die historische Aufführungspraxis ".
Ich finde es mutig - und deshalb wertvoll, weil inspirierend,
wenn ein Interpret seine persönliche Geschichte mit einem Musikstück erzählt.
DANKE - und gerne weiter so !
Gruß aus Stuttgart, wo J.S. Bach vielfältig " gepflegt " wird !
Post Scriptum : 300. Geburtstag von Bach's Inventionen-Vorwort 1723 :
" am allermeisten eine cantable Art im Spielen zu erlangen "
( das Video hier kann das auf sehr persönliche Weise veranschaulichen ).
A superb theological interpretation. Thank you, so inspiring!!!
Always learning. Nice video.
Lovely instrument.
This was my first contest piece in the seventh grade in Wisconsin. We were rated, not against each other, but on a scale of one to five. The judge was apologetic while giving me a two for not having played it fast enough. (I played it considerably faster than this demonstration.) Today I would deem that rating appropriate, but not because of the tempo. I was merely playing the correct notes. I was not, however, telling a story. Fifty years later I am again playing c-minor, this time the double concerto in a small local concert not far from Eisenach. I hope we will tell an interesting musical story at an appropriate tempo and with the correct notes. Thank you for this reminder about what really matters in music.
Now in my late 50s, an ardent amateur pianist, how often I wish that my childhood teachers, fine as they were and whom I loved, had imparted also that I was not just "playing the piano" but telling a story using the piano. Learning grammar is part of school, too. But even at the late teen and college level, the drive to the annual recitals was too often about getting notes under the fingers than what you are saying, like learning to recite a poem phonically. Most professionals play their instruments in settings where interpretation is less important or is given by another (conductor), producing a bias in music training.
40 years ago I listened to this movement. I was blown away. For me, it is a magical experience. Beyond the notes, did a good job of explaining the magic. Well, it is Bach and even in such a simple construction like this can you really understand what a genius is saying?
My connection with Bach's music is very mysterious. But hearing you talk about it is always a pleasure. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and knowledge. 🦫
This is wonderful Wim. Thank you for sharing your deep love of music and the fruits of all your in-depth studies. Anything which helps us get closer to the music of Johan Sebastian Bach is valuable and worthwhile. Wishing you the best - John
The Prelude dates from 1720, it’s the 15th work in Clavier-Buechlein for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach as the 2nd Praeludium in the early form. J N Forkel used in his edition published by Hoffmeister. Gerber’s copy ends with a mordant on the E natural in the last measure. Gerber studied with J S Bach in 1725. The Gerber manuscript also has the word Adagio in what has thought to be J S Bach’s handwriting in measure 25, three measures before the Presto, this indication is only found in Gerber’s manuscript, which along with JSB’s cousin Johann Walter and two other manuscripts contain the earliest version of WTC Pt 1.
Future son in law J C Altnickol’s copy dates from the later years of J S Bach’s life and contains all the revisions not found in the earlier manuscripts, or of those the autograph which Bach altered.
One of my first "major" pieces which I learnt for the piano. Nice interpretation and a very insightful video!
Thank you for shining a new light on this very difficult to listen to gem! I hear (and see) it in a new light. So happy I found yu.
Thank you Wim for your wonderful analysis of the Bach B Minor Prelude. It makes it so much more interesting to learn to play!
I need to listen this great piece differently from now that I got a different perspective of the interpretation. Thanks!
This Prelude was never part of my piano lessons back in the days, but I always played it slower and more emotional than I knew it from any vinyl. To warm up your fingers, it's a nice exercise to play it fast, but there is no feeling at all. Thanks to RUclips I could listen to many others. Mostly fast and cold except for Glenn Goulds interpretation. The confirmation I was locking for ;-)
A fine presentation that renders beauty to the music.
Mr Winters,
Thank you for your artistry and inspiration. I appreciate your work and perspective in this and your other series.
I am looking forwarding to more Beyond the Notes.
I wish you health and joy and many more rapturous musical moments.
-Dr D
Very inspiring
Fascinating!
Great lesson! Thank you ❤️
Beautiful playing and passionate explanation. I can not separate this prelude from the fugue. One resolves into the next so seamlessly.
Wim,
This is a really nice series which makes us think more about the music than just the notes. When I had lessons in my latter years, my teachers would spend a good part of my lessons doing this kind of analysis. Today, this has become second nature to me and makes learning and playing music even more enjoyable as I seek out this in the music.
If you were to do another piece, I would like you to continue with Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C#. There's a lot more to these two than meets the eye.
wonderful.. real music played and described by a real musician. Someone who really know, feals and seeks to understand... music. refreshing to say the least. I eas wondering if you could do something covering the evplution of Bachs work throught the years...
Fantastic
Favorite prelude!
This was great, very interesting, thanks!
only a genius could make this happen, this creator kakes me realize that fact after looking ar his channel. He can explain the genius of Bach.
Beautiful interprétation
Super cool Wim. Thanks🙂🙏🏼🌹
Awesome explanation. Certainly an interesting interpretation with all the symbolism, and to some extent probably even a possible one.
When I played this piece at school, I imagined a mysterious figure in the dark, walking quickly and decisively through a 1700s busy city in the evening, with a sense of great urgency or danger. All different city sounds and events happening all around, horse hooves clicking against the pavement. He eventually stops abruptly, hardly believing he had managed to reach his destination, and yet he hesitates to proceed forward. He eventually walks through the door with a feeling of momentary relief, but the real story is only about to unveil, the fugue begins... One of my favourite Bach pieces, loved your insights and interpretation, it motivates me to come back and learn it again as it's been years since I last played it.
Love it!
Thank you ❤
Thank you for the excellent and passionate presentation. Thank you for making connections I was not aware of.
You explanation satisfies me. Very well described.
Creation and heaven is undoubtedly what he had in mind.
Thankyou Wim 🙏🎶
Honestly, I have no story with this piece (except from hearing it), but I love the way you play it. It gives me just a small hope that I might play it someday.
this was so useful - I love this prelude for first half but never understood the second half until now! it's making me appreciate this prelude (and the ending) so much more. thank you!
WOW ! Amazing, inspiring. First time to hear this. Thank You much.
A grat channel find! Thanks for sharing such beauty and deep knowledge of music🎶😍❤️🎧
thank you. this is the kind of step-by-step thinking and feeling that provides real insight to the listener who is not a musician. you are ideally articulate in both word and note to advance one's own experience.
This is one of my favorites. It is dark. Cold and drafty, candle lit, dark-castle dark.
You really changed the way that is I hear this piece!
Would you say that the clavichord is the most expressive of the keyboard instruments? The delicacy of the final notes you play in this piece can't be matched on piano or harpsichord.
Almost my way of understanding this prelude. even though you changeit for me. Thanks a lot!
There is not word to thank you for this BRILLIANT COMMENT, I’m studying Bach, that is wonderful and painful
You have added a totally new dimension
I’m jumping
Thank you for sharing feelings and deepness and wonderful concepts
This is what music is
Wow! Finally got a chance to watch this, and of course it was amazing!! Please keep these videos coming! Fascinating! 😊
A very enlightening explanation of this Bach piece for a non-musician. It'll add an extra dimension to my music listening from now on.
I'm watching again after 4 more months of playing. I've been studying music theory, but I think I need to stop going further and train my ear. But listening to this I was able to pick out the notes you were talking about. That attests to your ability to accent the notes you want to come out, but I was happy that I feel I'm making progress.
Nice video, man. Feels so nice to finally find an easy guide
Getting to the essence of music - that is the way. I completely agree because that is exactly what I feel myself when I play music-notes of pieces that I love, although I may realize it in another way - but the principle is the same. BRAVO! Excellent upload.
Thanks!
Wonderful job on a difficult subject to unpack! Now a fan, glad I found this site! Many Thanks, Carlo
The last 7 notes also set up the fugue theme-and its ending.
My favourite piece by Bach! Thank you for sharing you ideas about it, I loved the video...
Phenomenal playing and musical breakdown, and the sonics remind me of Indian raga like music but straight from Bach right there. Thanks you for this! I'll have to watch it many times to understand it fully
I studied this prelude many years ago, on my own, and I’ve been realising how much more is in there. I don’t have the virtuosity of playing it with all I want to say, but I’m getting to know how much I leave aside. That’s part of the mystery of music.