Netherlands Bach Society | Bach - WTC II Prelude and fugue no. 17 in A-flat major BWV 886 | Netherlands Bach Society @bach | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 6 hours ago
In this challenging diptych - performed here for All of Bach by Christine Schornsheim - pieces from very different periods come together. Bach wrote his prelude - a good example of Bach’s late style, in which the modern ‘sonata form’ determines how it unfolds - around 1741. The fugue began life around 1720 as the fughetta BWV 901, and almost 25 years later it was given a real upgrade. It demonstrates just how much freedom Bach has acquired over the years.
Twenty years after his first collection of music in every key imaginable, Bach completed a second 'Wohltemperirte Clavier'. We recorded his first book of Preludes and Fugues at the homes of 24 different musicians. For this second part, performed in its entirety by Christine Schornsheim, we chose 12 very different locations in Utrecht, to celebrate the 900th anniversary of our home city. Christine Schornsheim on the choice of the Provincial House for this recording: “Proud, perfect and grand. The prelude is proud and lofty like this skyscraper. The fugue is sonorous and with a generous character.”
Recorded for the project All of Bach on 22 April 2022 at the Provincial House, Utrecht, the Netherlands. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/3J5uprM.
For the interview with Christine Schornsheim on the Wohltemperirte Clavier II and the process of recording this in its entirety, see youtu.be/1qbxmF8K_rQ
For more information on BWV 886 and this production go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-886/
All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society, offering high-quality film recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and its guest musicians. Visit our free online treasury for more videos and background material on https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach. For concert dates and tickets go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/concerts.
Christine Schornsheim, harpsichordist
Harpsichord: Bruce Kennedy, 1989 after Michael Mietke
0:00 Prelude
4:11 Fugue
In this challenging diptych - performed here for All of Bach by Christine Schornsheim - pieces from very different periods come together. Bach wrote his prelude - a good example of Bach’s late style, in which the modern ‘sonata form’ determines how it unfolds - around 1741. The fugue began life around 1720 as the fughetta BWV 901, and almost 25 years later it was given a real upgrade. It demonstrates just how much freedom Bach has acquired over the years.
Twenty years after his first collection of music in every key imaginable, Bach completed a second 'Wohltemperirte Clavier'. We recorded his first book of Preludes and Fugues at the homes of 24 different musicians. For this second part, performed in its entirety by Christine Schornsheim, we chose 12 very different locations in Utrecht, to celebrate the 900th anniversary of our home city. Christine Schornsheim on the choice of the Provincial House for this recording: “Proud, perfect and grand. The prelude is proud and lofty like this skyscraper. The fugue is sonorous and with a generous character.”
Recorded for the project All of Bach on 22 April 2022 at the Provincial House, Utrecht, the Netherlands. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/3J5uprM.
For the interview with Christine Schornsheim on the Wohltemperirte Clavier II and the process of recording this in its entirety, see youtu.be/1qbxmF8K_rQ
For more information on BWV 886 and this production go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-886/
All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society, offering high-quality film recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and its guest musicians. Visit our free online treasury for more videos and background material on https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach. For concert dates and tickets go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/concerts.
Christine Schornsheim, harpsichordist
Harpsichord: Bruce Kennedy, 1989 after Michael Mietke
0:00 Prelude
4:11 Fugue
