W.A.Mozart :: Prelude and Fugue KV 394 :: Wim Winters, clavichord

W.A.Mozart :: Prelude and Fugue KV 394 :: Wim Winters, clavichord
Prelude 0:06
Fugue 5.01
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Nobody's perfect, and the last one in the row is me, but the way I underestimated this piece and particularly this fugue for some years, even was surprising to me... !
Of course, it's Mozart's fault!
In a letter to his sister (who asked him constantly keyboard pieces with interesting harmonies and counterpoint), he apologized for only sending this manuscript, he had not enough time to write something better...
The fantasy/prelude is rather special, brilliant, but the fugue is a master piece in counterpoint. We can only regret Mozart didn't compose his own well-tempered clavier!
Interesting to see how the prelude tend to lean towards typical pianoforte writing, very well possible on the clavichord, but the broken chords would make great effect on the pf too. But: Nannerl didn't have a pianoforte, as Mozart himself had not yet, or just a very short time his Walter piano. It shows the exchange-ability of this keyboard music, especially in the 2d half of the 18th century and certainly in Vienna.
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[@jorgeaguirre7260]

Amazing composition. A real tribute to Bach on a time he was barely considered. Mozart, the first Bachian composer to acknowledge and acquire Bach's legacy. And this is not the only example.

[@JOUA1400]

A Mozart WTC....a wonderful speculation at least. Brilliant piece!! BRAVO!!

[@AuthenticSound]

Thanks!

[@cliffordham8214]

So well played, such a beautiful, balanced instrument, so skilled its creator; humbling.

[@wolkowy1]

The Prelude feels like a happy child trying the contradicting registers of the instrument - very playful. The Fugue, however, feels almost modern, almost a 20th century theme. I guess your special way of playing it (like for ex., the half-staccato in the arpeggi-passages), and the sound of the instrument itself, make this unique piece worthwhile hearing. Bravo! Thanks for uploading.

[@wolkowy1]

@George Fredric Handel No need of so many question-marks. One or two are enough to get the point... Anyway, I should have add "from around 0:54 and on" and omit the word "happy child": "very playful" was enough to contradict the prelude with the "almost modern" feeling the fugue gave me (and yes, this is not a real contradiction in academic style, just a personal subjective impression of mine :) ) Thanks for making me re-think about my ill choosing of words in this comment.

[@gregoryvozar6236]

As happy as I am to hear this work so well-performed on the clavichord, I must remark that the warmth of this recording is very pleasing. The clavichord sound varies greatly depending on the listener's (microphone's) position relative to the instrument. It is difficult to record well, but here especially one can hear the fundamental tone in the warm sound of wood, the tiny percussive impact of tangent, the silvery buzz of the upper harmonics and the echoes of the 'cathedral' of strings from bridge to tuning pins. What a beautiful voice this instrument has!

[@AuthenticSound]

Great to read Gregory!

[@ShelbyBryant]

I think I've listened to all versions of this prelude & fugue on youtube- but yours is the best

[@AuthenticSound]

Thank you Shelby

[@ludwigvanbeethoven8164]

This is my favorite pieces, its like Mozart and Beethovem

[@ps.quiroz]

Definitivamente tengo que recomendar tu canal a mis colegas en Facebook, van a flipar...

[@ob4161]

Great performance, love this piece.

[@randobravo4335]

Damn that sounds good, now wish you would do a recording on a forte

[@lukloberhofer6892]

thank you wim, this sound is exactly what this piece needs, in my humble opinion

[@AuthenticSound]

Thank Lucas!

[@andrewpfeiffer6218]

This is really good, Bach-level stuff!

[@lewisjones2666]

Bravo!

[@MrCertatim]

Great!,,

[@JAOrtizCompositor]

I use to conduct to myself too when I'm playing the keyboard or when I'm singing hehe A very good interpretation on the clavichord sir! Greetings from Mexico!

[@AuthenticSound]

Thanks!

[@andreassummerer597]

Wonderfull

[@mabel8179]

I love this piece, got a recording of it on the fortepiano. Interesting to hear it played so well on the clavichord. Thank you Wim.

[@AuthenticSound]

+Matilda Woodhouse Glad you liked it ! With Mozart, it is always a sad question asking, what if he had lived longer...?

[@mabel8179]

AuthenticSound Yes, poor Mozart.

[@redboombuzz]

The counterpoint WOAH! :D

[@AuthenticSound]

:-)

[@jack_hamerly_composer]

Fugue at 5:01

[@AuthenticSound]

Thanks for pointing out Jack, I'll update the description !

[@mewsdo]

Great performance. I wonder if those mikes were purposely included in the field of view... pretty as they are, I'd have hidden them somehow...

[@hambartha]

Currently learning this piece and I really enjoy and prefer your interpretation better than others I have heard - your choice of tempi for both works is excellent! Although, I have a question, is the fugue really a fugue or is it just in the 'style of a fugue?'

[@AuthenticSound]

I would say it is definitely an fugue-exercice as Mozart called it

[@hambartha]

@@AuthenticSound Thanks for this, this makes sense. I have yet to read the Mozart Letters.

[@raulflyeryt9856]

Hi Wim and everybody!! Do you know a place to buy a portatil clavichord? I really like that sound and I would like to buy one of that!! Thank you and very beautiful piece of Mozart!!

[@AuthenticSound]

I'd look on internet

Nice! The fugue works so much better on the clavichord than on a piano or even harpsichord. Too bad it is seldom played anywhere.

[@AuthenticSound]

Thanks Imre, great to read !

[@Tizohip]

very good....

[@AuthenticSound]

+Danimar da Silva Thank you Danimar, I'm glad you liked it! Wim

[@Tizohip]

good works for you good look :D

[@Tizohip]

i'm like this Mozart music flexibility for "Bachian" musics imitations..

[@Tizohip]

well played :D

[@AuthenticSound]

+Danimar da Silva he was a genius of course, able to understand and adapt with light speed. That renewal for the baroque would set trough very much to the early 19th century. I am recording, one of the next week, some preludes and fugues written by... Carl Czerny and, ... not bad at all, on the contrary!

[@7dreams1935]

Wonderful music. I was wondering if the piano in close proximity to the clavichord might be altering the sound through sympathetic vibration.

[@AuthenticSound]

Hi Richard, that's a great thought! In fact for the recording of the Bach Partitas (they'll be released in August), I had the piano open with the sustaining pedal down, it did make a (slight) difference!

[@bhinderbinder]

What software did you use to edit this?

[@AuthenticSound]

Hi Bet, I'm using samplitude for the music and Sony Vegas pro for the video

[@classicgameplay10]

Would you change how you play this nowadays?

[@AuthenticSound]

probably yes

[@DanielDiaz-vu4ib]

la fuga parece escrita por una supermente cósmica

[@jozefsklencar1004]

is that piano behind the clavichord erard ?

[@AuthenticSound]

Yes, well seen! There are two recordings on the channel that I made with that piano, one Chopin ballade and Liszt Jeux d'eaux

[@jozefsklencar1004]

Will sometimes new pieces on the Erard?

[@AuthenticSound]

Yes it is! 1866, 2,55m . I will be uploading my 'old = 2000' CD recording soon (it never was released).

[@jozefsklencar1004]

I really like it

[@divinoe4540]

No it's obviously a table with a vase.

[@jackhousman6637]

Very nice. Maybe you could keep the microphones out of the picture, next time. Bravo.

[@AuthenticSound]

Thank you, Jack. Normally, in the other video's, you won't see the mic's. However, I sometimes get the question of microphone positioning, and for this particular recording, which was made during the day, so with possible noise from outside, I placed them really close to the instrument. And since this recording was made in day light, more of the instrument could be seen, and so... there was no escape! But most of the times you will not see them, or just a glimpse! All best wishes, Wim

[@Tizohip]

+AuthenticSound play my fugue..

[@Geopholus]

What an interesting piece of music. The fugue, in parts, is rather weak, which is surprising, (from Mozart)... from 8:50 to 9:50,... to borrow commentary from Glen Gould, on Bach's early fugue on his name: B A C H theme ,... "he comes-up with a phrase, and coins it, and can't let go of the currency" or something to that effect.... Very nice instrument and recording,... it does seem to have gone, a little off tune by the middle of the recording, but I guess that is a weakness of Clavichords.

[@AuthenticSound]

You know, Mozart wrote to his sister that next time, she'd have something better, since he had no time (:-)). No, my clavichord is not to weak to give those fortes, I was still using a kind of tempered tuning at the time, which results in some too small of an intervals for this music (that, as I learned on the go, obviously was written with equal temp. in mind).

[@Geopholus]

Thanks so much,

[@jackjack3320]

Mozart was studying baroque style at the time, this is more like a student work and is still better than Chopin's fugue in A minor, or Schubert's fugue in E minor

[@vincentflack34]

It is just the seeming weakness of the fugue, which I myself noticed years ago, that opens our ears. Mozart's fugues are not fugues, his sonatas not sonatas, his symphonies not symphonies, his operas not operas, etc. It is all pure music, of a heavenly height. This goes for all his music from the earliest juvenilia, to the late great compositions that are yet for us in our time far in the future.

[@voxveritatis3815]

Here you go again trying to discredit great master Mozart. The fugue is not weak at all, obviously your hearing is. Many who have underestimated Mozart's music spend a hard time when performing it. No one is bringing Bach up, and no one here wants to for one simple reason: this is about the best composer ever: Wolfang Amadeus Mozart. Yes yes yes...Bach's music is so "mathematically perfect", but also predictable, often overkill , and undoubtedly pretentious, composed to be unattainable for humans according to Bach himself. Make no mistake: this is Mozart. He composed for the lettered and the uneducated. For God and for mankind. In short, Mozart's music is musically perfect. "All you can do is underestimate Mozart until you try his music" - Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

[@konstantin6966]

И зачем перенимать у Глена Гульда манеру дирижировать. Полная бессмыслица.