Johann Sebastian Bach: Preludio, fuga & allegro BWV 998

[batako0o]

Heyy!! awesome perfomance!

[ernststolz]

Thank you!

[Lukecash12]

The prelude was definitely the best.

[Lukecash12]

How could we not receive a performance this good without approval? Excellent refrain!

[ernststolz]

Thank you!

[ernststolz]

Ik ben blij dat jij het wel kan, terwijl je het misschien niet wilt

[mjb565656]

@ernststolz 'forget my message.

[mjb565656]

@mjb565656 'non sense ,

excuse me!

[azotojcd]

WOW!!, Excelente interpretación

[ernststolz]

Thanks!

[frenchiecocorico1]

Effectively, the Bach lute work is impossible to play on the lute in its original score and it is always necessary to transcribe on another praticable key to be played on.

Despite the fact that Bach owned Lutes and known well several lutenists as Weiss, it is nearly certain that Bach composed his "Lautenwerk" on a Lute-Harpsichord .

Bach was a great keyboard player and could play as well Flute, Violin or Cello but we can conclude that he didn't know how to play on the Lute.

[filsuf]

BWV998 was actually written for the lautenwerck (google it) and was written with standard keyboard notation. There was no evidence that Bach wrote with lute tablature.

However, as you can already 'feel', this piece indeed feels 'simpler' than his other keyboard works. I think, that suggests that Bach actually did wanted it to be played by the lute too. See the broken-chords in the fugue, that is a lute character!

I'm a guitarist, so I researched this too ;)

[carlosdeactopan]

BUENA CANCION

[mrmolinodelahoz]

One can find all of the Bach lute suites written in original lute tablature in an urtext edition.

[andresmx0]

muy bueno gracias y saludos desde cancun mexico

[Kraviotho]

Me recuerda a la Allamanda del French Suite 4

Es realmente muy buena tanto la obra como la intepretaciòn ;D 5/5

[ernststolz]

Muchas gracias

[wandalewlandowska]

Thank you for not taking the short value of the LH notes quite so literally. Lovely performance!

[orgeronm1959]

I can't pick a favorite of the Bach lute suites (whether he actually intended them for lute or not), but this one has a special place for me. The Fugue gives me a sweet picture of some angel delightedly working out an immensely complicated and intricate celestial Rubik's cube given him by the Lord and handing it back solved with a radiant smile and them both laughing for joy. I have heard a phenomenal recording or 2 of this on Baroque lute, by Jakob Lindberg on Bis and another by Moreno?

[pansdimensional]

Beautiful, thanks.

[ernststolz]

You're welcome!

[bassslayer]

Great interpretation and phrasing. I like the allegro faster and I wish the mic placement picked up a little more bass frequencies, but I liked it. You should transcribe BWV 995 sounds great on the harpischord

[ernststolz]

Thanks! The transcription is an old existing one, by Bach himself (or a pupil?) Sound is better in my newer films.

[BFGUITAR]

Interesting, I like it!

One thing though... what is it with the tempo fluctuations? Is it just a personal thing?

[ernststolz]

Do you mean the agogics?

[guit76]

If I'm not mistaken, Wanda Landowska recorded this transcription as well!:)

[ernststolz]

Yes, sure!

[indigoblue555]

I've got a great guitar recording by Parkening but you give me the first chance to listen to an harpsichord rendition.

Thx.for sharing.

[ernststolz]

I'm glad you like it

[cacealian]

This is fantastic, beautiful playing.

I play the Prelude & Allegro on the piano, which is probably not optimal; the sound is not so clear as the harpsichord or guitar and it's always good to hear all of the notes when you play Bach. But still, it's great fun.

[ernststolz]

Of course, a piano has its own charms and abilities.

[badalac]

very nice work, i hope i can do a good job by studying this piece on my classical guitar(in D-Major, originally written in Eb-major. i could done it with a capotaster, but knowing that in those days the etalon "a" was lower about a half tone, i've decided to do it without it)

[MNYCNY2000]

Very nice, although I would enjoy a slightly slower tempo.

I have enjoyed many of your postings.

Best regards from New York City.

[ernststolz]

Thanks! Regards from the Hague.

[BlueJazzyClassic]

Man you are awesome one man ochestra. Exquiste posting. 10 strs.

My best BlueJazzyClassic

[sleazebee]

so refreshing to actually hear this on the harpsichord!! as a classical guitarist working on this suite...thank you!

[ernststolz]

nice, success!

[firebreathone]

Interesting how Bach never ceases to amaze you

[ernststolz]

There are a few lute pieces by Bach set in a keyboard adaption, this works great on harpsichord I think.

[Luthval]

;-)

I wish I could one day play this on the lute...

Thanks for sharing

Val ;-)

[lightmeter123]

Toda (=thank you in hebrew) so nice ! such a great peice and performance.

BTW - have you recorded peices on the clavichord? regards from Jerusalem

[ernststolz]

I'm waiting for a new clavichord to arive, then I will record new clavichord video's again. Toda!

[grantco131313]

Nice Bach. Now people can't ask why you haven't played any Bach :-)

[ernststolz]

As an exeption this time a less played Bach. I used to play lots of Bach of course.

[GeraldBoyClassical]

Thanks so much for this Ernst. I've yet to learn the Fuga for classical guitar to complete this suite. It's great to get another perspective from the harpsichord!

Gerald

[ernststolz]

thanks Gerald, when you finish the fuga, you have to recorrd it!

[Gealach74]

excellent !... Bach is the best!

bravo .....sounds really nice.

[ernststolz]

I think too, he is the best, but why actually?

[michaeljking]

I like the bass drone/pedal note in the begining, how it unfolds with the melody....

I have a folder of music I want to learn to play on the keyboard at some point and this is one of them..actually my aim is to be able to play some of the pieces of music I have always loved, the ones I know in my head already on the Clavichord(which I am making at some point,I have the plans and wood.......)

[ernststolz]

I think you have a reason to finish your clavichord soon. success, let me know when you are at that point.

[firebreathone]

It's interesting (and much to Bach's credit) that a work initially written for lute can be transcribed for Harpsichord and lose none of its beauty. This must be evidence that Bach's work is universal. It transcends instruments and even up to our day, his music is regularly played in different ways. Even Jazz musicians manage to do something with him!

No other composer has managed to make such universally loved, understood and recognisable music!

[borzinboss]

because he puts his expressions into music, I am deeply sadened by his death, unless scientists want to cologne him.