Bach: WTC1 No. 15 in G major BWV 860 (Richter)

Not one of his greatest interpratations, it's fine, but a bit... um... square?

You might notice that I have colored all entries of the subject red, and all entries of the subject inverted blue.
The reason is that I am experimenting a bit with an image editing program, and I wanted to see how this would look.

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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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• Bach
• Richter
• Sviatoslav
• Das
• Wohltemperierte
• Klavier
• Well
• Tempered
• Clavier
• Fugue
• Prelude
• major
• BWV
• 860
• piano

[TableLamp1963]

Gould's version is constipated. Certainly he plays the notes, but there was not much more.

Richter plays like he is in a hurry. No nuance. To quote the retarded pop singer, David Bowie, it is all "Wham, bam, thank you man!"

What's the problem? Aren't there any performers that can play Bach any more?

[Pianoplayer002]

Richter can certainly play Bach but I have to agree with you that I don't think Richter's approach on this Prelude and Fugue is the best. Check out d minor, F# major, g minor and A flat major :)

[evaniax]

You could've used two more colors! The secondary theme (introduced in msr 5) and the secondary theme inverted (in modified form in msr 11, 20, 24, 28).

There is also a modified verion of the second theme that recurs (16, 31 without the intro measure).

Bach went crazy on this one.... lol.

[Pianoplayer002]

He went crazy on most fugues :P

[Davidoff73]

hey pianoplayer002 - thanks for all that incredible postings! fantastic!

[zeldaiik]

Check out Paul Gilbert's interpretation.

[bungleminge]

@TableLamp1963 'The retarded pop singer'? What's WRONG with you?!?!?!!!?

[KyougetsuYoru]

ok this is colplex

[KyougetsuYoru]

Inverted theme e______________e !!

[anzioa]

speed is a tricky thing because the faster ricther goes, the less i pick up as a listener.

[dragmio]

@TableLamp1963 It's "Wham-bam thank you ma'am!" It's T.S. Eliot, an it is you who is retarded.

[CliveMcRockin]

Top tunes, yo!

[ilorts]

The fugue (0:49....) is fantastic. Bach is truly the father of fugue.

[jwchappy1]

you can play the notes fine but do you do dynamics and I know bach didnt put dynamics on but

do me a favour richter USE DYNAMICS!

[hoodloom22]

@Pianoplayer002

listen to Gulda's version. He plays it a reasonable tempo.

[dagoldbl]

This is a great pedagogical tool!