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

Keith Jarrett plays on harpsichord Bach's Prelude and Fugue in F Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II

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[hallambrique]

in france we call it clavecin !

[PiotrekChrobot]

@hallambrique In Poland - klawesyn.

[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.

[docchocobo]

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

[PiotrekChrobot]

Fully agree.

[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.

[Leviticus192728]

Musical superiority

[TaTxBe]

@jrockturner Thanks for the info

[lexarsepa]

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

[kinkajoes]

@pianodork786

love the username xD

[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.

[Drelnis]

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

[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

[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.