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Bach's fugues are amazing, they sound great on harpsichords and organs, whereas some piano music sounds very wrong when it is payed without all the volume modul
by conorbergin 1y ago
Bach's fugues are amazing, they sound great on harpsichords and organs, whereas some piano music sounds very wrong when it is payed without all the volume modulation, the fugues are carried by the interactions between the melodies, the counterpoint.
- username223 1y agoBach in general is amazing in terms of surviving all sorts of transcription and mutilation. Compare the Little Organ Fugue as originally intended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddbxFi3-UO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddbxFi3-UO4 to the a cappella version by the Swingle Singers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhU7euFPWwo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhU7euFPWwo Some music is very much tied to a particular instrument, but Bach is more or less universal.
- niccl 1y agoI much prefer the art of fugue on strings. The Delme Quartet is the best rendition I've found. The two pauses in contrapunctus 1 are, in my opinion the two best pieces of silence in the whole musical canon. I always think of the chords that come after theme as 'from his mother's womb untimely ripped'. They can make me weep when I'm in the right mood. (sorry for the over-sharing...)
- leephillips 1y agoNothing to apologize for.