ExclusiveBach: Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 857

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 857. This beautiful piece was played by The Liverpool Brass Ensemble. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal), and is provided through musopen.org.

Bach has created deep sorrow from which there is no escape.

The preludes and fugues in the Wohltemperirte Clavier are often opposite in character. The prelude is cautious and the fugue energetic. This piece, however, is the other way round. The melancholy atmosphere is already firmly established in the very first notes, and it remains throughout. It really seems as if the prelude is going nowhere. Although the practically unbroken series of semiquavers suggests a flowing movement, the static bass notes keep the brakes on, and even the trills hang like a millstone around the melody’s neck. All attempts at brightening up are nipped in the bud. The fugue, too, tries bravely to struggle free of this oppressive atmosphere, but to no avail. Even though nearly all twelve tones of the scale are called on, sometimes to the point of desperation, none of the diversions are enough to really let the sun break through. Here, Bach has created deep sorrow from which there is no escape.

Source: bachvereniging.nl

The video was captured by Simone Schlegel in Switzerland and was editd by Wenjing Ma.

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