Bach: WTC1 No. 22 in b flat minor BWV 867 (Richter)

The subject in the fugue has been marked with blue and red for easier readability (there is no difference between the red and blue ones). Bach goes crazy around 06:06, the subject enters in canon with itself (stretto) in all five voices!

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List of The Welltempered Clavier videos I have uploaded (I will continue to add videos until the list is full!):

1. in C major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkt75juxvxw
2. in c minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GXHjxvSi24
3. in C# major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-c8WG2GTaI
4. in c# minor
5. in D major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_85VWhfSRA
6. in d minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNMYHy8B7KU
7. in Eb major
8. in eb minor
9. in E major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMEITKQI7ao
10. in e minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp5mPL7IPMc
11. in F major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njXeHu5znZ0 (new!)
12. in f minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Z_FVjMSWc (new!)
13. in F# major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJCpUW1Q1yc
14. in f# minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjAQLU23keI
15. in G major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNlXYLsC_Vs
16. in g minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKif28jMUg
17. in Ab major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCL5Zvnt0TU
18. in g# minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfrI046SU3E
19. in A major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZfA5gv-dE
20. in a minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj4lPhfG98o
21. in Bb major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzwlNtcWV34 (new!)
22. in bb minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL00B8TQMBQ (new!)
23. in B major
24. in b minor

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[jiejingz]

did the bach use stretto in the exposition?

[Pianoplayer002]

Indeed he did!

[concertviolinist]

I am delighted by this recording (Mr Sviatoslav Richter is one of my favourite Concert Pianists) which I've heard numerous times over the last year or more before writing this comment today Monday 28 February 2011;

I was also delighted with how well my beloved Sister played it when I requested her to play it for me in April last year - she did it without any notice & without any rehearsal and the standard was very high!

[anzioa]

The stretto with the inverted theme in the very first line is so delicious to my ears.

[ThePoliticalMusician]

I really like this.

[Aza1408]

Hello. Thank you for your upload.

I always believed the theme in the fugue has just two bars (without the C/D/E/F in the first one). Could you please tell me why did you consider the theme being 3 bars long? I'm just learning the piece and I am really interested by this matter. Thanks.

[MarkHeller13]

I love Richter, but for me this is played slightly too quickly, and so lacks some of the intense emotion of other performances (for example Joanna Macgregor's version here on YouTube, which is sublime...)

[MrHicks091]

@dom0s not that prelude no 1 is *easy* ;)!

[dom0s]

@liyujelian I just took one look at the key signature and went back to prelude no. 1

[Sofoclaudio]

Thank you Bach, thank you Germany... über alles in der Welt!