Fantasia in G major BWV 572 (pedal clavichord)

By Harald Vogel on pedal clavichord.

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[Trinitrotolaissance]

HAHA, Joker :D

(yes he is)

[TheRepub]

X - O - L!NT !!!

[TheRepub]

The Sabathil & Son Clavichord demonstration - Well-Tempered Clavichord

is totally out of tune - so they don't "approve" my comment.

[JoelvanLennep]

Gerard, Pls. consider that it is not only the clavichord but the acoustical context that cause the inst. to sound as it does. Clavichords from different periods, regions, makers, etc sound remarkably different from one another - more than any other instrument I know of. The clear soprano octave is laudable and just right for JSB. I do find the pedal bass a little heavy however. Please take each clavichord on its own merits - in any case, such comparisons are always an "apples-or-oranges" affair.

[ahgblopes]

@advisorC101

Yes. Tha "fantasia" form, is BASED on improvisation, not a 100% improvised piece...

It reminds a little the ricercare a 6 on the mide of the piece.

[GerardvanR]

It's too bad about the sound, too much reverb. This is not the sound of a clavichord. This beautiful and tender instrument cannot sound like this. This recording is like a very bad Steinway in a cathedral.

[kv310]

This Fantasia was composed in 1708 at Weimar when he was 23 years old.

He composed most of his organ works that year.

[mrmolinodelahoz]

I normally draw the line at clavicords but I must admit that this one is the best sounding one I have heard yet.

However it still sounds like an excercise in overcoming impotance.

It also reminds me of a gypsy Hungarian zither,or zimbel played with little sticks which is difficult to abide if you have ever heard one.

[advisorC101]

Oh yes, I knew that Bach didn't need an instrument to compose. After all with his mastery in harmonic structure, ingenuity and creativity i would think it was standard practice for him.

Many of the great masters that came after him would also spend hours and hours writing out their music and only later 'test' them.

We know that Bach constructed his works, many others think that he just improvised everything. Not true.

[wcbroccoli]

About his father's composing process, C.P.E. Bach wrote that "if I exclude some (but, nota bene, not all) of his clavier pieces, particularly those for which he took the material from improvisations, he composed everything else without instrument, but later tried it out on one."

Apparently Bach had one set of pedals that could be attached to clavichords. Before his death, he'd given the pedals and 3 claviers to his youngest son, Johann Christian. (Notes from "New Bach Reader").