Keith Jarrett plays on harpsichord Bach's Prelude and Fugue in F Minor

[hallambrique]

in france we call it clavecin !

[PiotrekChrobot]

@hallambrique In Poland - klawesyn.

[Leviticus192728]

Musical superiority

[Drelnis]

I notice this great recording is actually a semitone lower than written, is this because of the nature of the harpsichord?

[jrockturner]

@Drelnis In the Baroque period tunings were generally lower than today's standard. Many early music performers and groups tune their instruments about a semitone lower than our modern standard pitch of A=440 or 442 hz, especially if they are playing original instruments that were made to play in the lower tuning.

[TaTxBe]

@jrockturner Thanks for the info

[lalliethetotaldork12]

way too fast.

[cwman8]

YMMV, but for me this speed brings out so much more of the power especially of the fugue. Here I can hear the powerful Bach whose music must have impressed and overhwhelmed so many in his times - not the stiff wig-guy from the paintings but the one from the Arnstadt Bach monument ;-) Or how is it that town councils consisting mostly of non-musicians so quickly decided to get this guy and pay even the young Bach as high as never before and afterwards in town´s history.

[lalliethetotaldork12]

haha i think it's nice either way because i love this song, but i just think it's too fast to appreciate it at this speed. when i learn the whole song i'll see what speed i like it better at :D

[sarjus]

BWV 881

[jorgefuentes90]

anybody knows which BWV is?

[robsonfr]

I just love the harpsichord. And J. S. Bach was just the great master of that instrument.

[RoteKalanchoe]

Bach played on piano is great, but Bach played on harposichord is even better!!!

At the repeatung of the secind part of the prelude the piece gets a flow that takes me away...-wonderful! And the fugue is great too, as said: a feast for ears and mind:)

[PiotrekChrobot]

Indeed. Thanks for comment.

[pianodork786]

Simply brilliant. No one will ever live up to the standard this man set. No one. Bach's preludes and fugues are like the old testament of music.

[kinkajoes]

@pianodork786

love the username xD

[lexarsepa]

@pianodork786 Hans Bulow actually said something very similar, "Bach is the old testament."

[music880216]

Could someone tell me wich song took the same melody? thx

[davidbowman78]

Jem "They"

[kepler101]

sweet jesus i love this!

[bybymc]

Harpsichord is LOVE!

Pianos are cool too, but WHY did they stop making harpsichords?

The most beautiful sound ever.

Guitar and Piano in only one.

[Vall1239]

10000 per cent agreeeee I love this sound they should make more of this instruments!

[Renshen1957]

Harpsichord builders became Piano builders. The music styles changed. However with the renewed interest in Bach and The Paris Exhibition of the Taskin instruments saw the building of new harpsichords after an 80 year hiatus.

[mrstrings65]

they didn't stop making harpsichords , there are a few makers and many harpsichordists playing the(copies of Rucker,pleyel etc.)

[malicant123]

Wonderful.  And it was up loaded on my birthday :D.

[docchocobo]

Real Music :) A feast for the ears AND the mind :)

[PiotrekChrobot]

Fully agree.