Bach - WTC II Prelude and fugue no. 18 in G-sharp minor BWV 887 | Netherlands Bach Society

[@bach]

0:05 Prelude 4:54 Fugue

[@johnpipkin7198]

How wonderful Professor Schornsheim's performances are ! Just perfect. Thank you !

[@79_Au.]

It's always a good day when Bach drops.

[@herrickinman9303]

"Drops" as in "drops by"? SMH

[@pcgaming7680]

@@herrickinman9303 "Drops" as in "publishes new music"

[@herrickinman9303]

@@pcgaming7680 That makes no sense. This hardly new music. Bach "dropped" WTC II in the 1740s.

[@herrickinman9303]

Sorry, I don't speak ghetto English. SMH

[@herrickinman9303]

Sorry, I don't speak ghetto. SMH

[@theresarodak8865]

Bach certainly chugs along in this piece. I like to think he felt "at home" writing this piece and enjoyed writing it. There is a strong Bach fingerprint with ideal use of related tonalities. It has a nice, warm German style feel to it.

[@mthsvlnt]

John Blythe expresses a related point very well by saying that this "is another fugue that can be like the sea". kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4jLoHlnicaKeKM

[@rayancharafeddine4982]

The fugue yeah, the Prelude is a bit "galant-ish" don't you think ?

[@mthsvlnt]

@@rayancharafeddine4982 right! but even so, definitely a very chromatic, mysterious, uneasy galant-ish

[@biberfan]

This is so good! She has awesome confidence with a key that’d be the end of me. Love the ornaments and energy throughout.

[@andrearodigari4840]

I'm really short of words. One of the best rendition of the piece in the history of interpretation.

[@geoslav]

The prelude feels disjointed. I understand that the harpsichord needs rhythmic phrasing; however, I personally find it hard to get in the groove of what should be a straight-forward and inspirational prelude. I admit the 6:12 second half of the prelude and especially the repeat flows better. Fugue subject feels like easy-going storytelling with some melancholy. Is this what Bach created? Maybe, maybe not.

[@Vitali_Osandor]

@@geoslav I agree. This is my favorite prelude from the collection, but I think the improvised ornamentations at the repeat and the slight rubato / rythmic phrasing really don't work for this prelude.

[@ariadne4720]

as a harpsichordist, I agree with you completely, and completely disagree with the comments above (as of this writing). The rubato Christine Schornsheim employs is exactly the nuanced rubato that is needed in "old" Baroque music (as opposed to French Baroque, Händel, etc.) to "bring out" the harmony and counterpoint. It could not be more well done than it is done on this recording. Kudos, Frau Schornsheim.

[@clairewonderfullife8819]

Thank you so much NBS for producing these extraordinary videos !

[@jakesmith3724]

Couldn’t agree more, Claire.

[@artje123]

What a great performance of my favorite WTC fugue ❤

[@larisacoughlin5182]

Harpsichord brings the passed romantic time to be heard further in the present days. I would have a dinner with the friends with this music, I would do some thinking with this music, I would just do everything I like and got to do , ..... and with this music ! I am very pleased with the way Christine plays J.S Bach melody .

[@gustavomoretto6449]

Wow! Gorgeous! Crazy-chromatic, fantastic playing!

[@lenaN5k8Q9]

Very beautiful played🍃thank you

[@mukilnarayanan]

Absolutely amazing!

[@landak136]

Counterpoint level: BOSS.

[@griottembf2405]

Mes attentes du Jeudi pour les nouvelles beautés offertes, Merci pour ce cadeau inépuisable qui colore notre passage ici bas Et n'ous aide à surmonter ces traversées qui, sans vous, seraient HIDEUSES. La plus haute expression de l'art nous permet de ne pas sombrer, infinie reconnaissance A vous tous, Qui déroulez pour nous tout votre talent et votre humilité , et tissez le chemin vers Dieu , La plus pure spiritualité émane de vos sensibilités, SOYEZ BÉNIS 🎶❣️💛🧡💙💜💖🙏

[@antonnel2315]

Wonderful playing. I don't think I've ever enjoyed this amazing piece more. Brava!

[@v.dargain1678]

Wonderful indeed . And I don't really care for harpsichord . Great execution .

[@schotext2683]

I agree, Anton!

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne und detaillierte Aufführung dieses perfekt komponierten doch technisch anspruchsvollen Tastenwerks im gut analysierten Tempo mit schimmerndem doch warmherzigem Klang des technisch perfekten Cembalos. Die Fuge klingt echt schön und auch lyrisch. Wahrlich intelligente und geniale Cembalistin!

[@staffanolofsson8201]

Also a beautiful recording with this wonderful hapsichord!

[@Itai-i2g]

One of my favorites. Thank you!

[@joshuaharper372]

I love her ornaments in the repeats of the prelude!!

[@SilvioNobre]

Fantástico!

[@seannyandme]

Wonderful.

[@davidriggenbach6672]

OMG this is the best recording of BWV 887 I've ever heard!

[@martinvandergraaff1144]

Beautiful!

[@johnransom1146]

Awesome. She blows me away

[@catarinatrigo]

Thank you for this amazing work you have been doing! ❤

[@themusiccovenant]

Amazing 👏

[@walmenreis]

Great, Christine! Great! Bravo!

[@РоманА.Б]

Огромное спасибо!

[@DIEGOLINOARDITTO]

Sublime.

[@demogadget]

fenomenaal.

[@DanielSilva-gc4xz]

Lmao the description. Love it.

[@mariavictoriamarquez4961]

Sublime

[@jeanpierrecarabas5508]

abgesehen von der hervorragenden Interpretation ... beachte man auch die besonders KÜHNE Komposition an sich.

[@TheSoteriologist]

That's fresh. She is _actually_ playing in a concert hall ! Who would have thought ?

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

You always mention "Sato" in the title but not her! Why? This performance is outstanding! MENTION HER IN THE TITLE!

[@bach]

Hi Ludwig, because of the key of this piece (G-sharp minor) we needed more characters in the title of the content. And KZbin only allows for so many characters.... Therefore we mentioned Christine Schornsheim in the top of the description.

[@davidriggenbach6672]

@@bach She is AMAZING! I wish I could go to one of her live performances!

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

@@bach Hi, in my opinion you could leave " | Netherlands Bach Society" away, because the video has already the watermark logo of yours. (It is obvious that the video is from the NBS). But never mind it is your decision of course!

[@nawfalsalman3074]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@hoon_sol]

The best of them all. I don't find the key signature annoying at all, it's actually very easy to play. It benefits from being played properly on tempo though, the playing here is a bit choppy.

[@lacrimis_solis]

👌

[@pregart001]

Undoubtedly this is a wonderful performance. Maybe I don't understand this music correctly. But for me it was played too fast. Unfortunately, the function of changing the playback speed leads to a significant deterioration in sound quality. I guess I'll have to play it myself and so slowly to enjoy this music leisurely.

[@mthsvlnt]

I love this piece fast and slow. I suppose you like Richter's slow rendition of this fugue? kzbin.info/www/bejne/q32YlYGVpLWoeLM

[@joshuaharper372]

I hear the piece even a bit faster and angry/stormy. (Particularly the fugue, which strikes me as a furious gigue.) Perhaps it is part of Bach's genius that the piece works so well at a wide range of tempi.

[@gtuneit]

Am wondering what temperament was used to play in this key.

[@jans5331]

Lovely ! Christine Schornsheim I can hear is a brilliant performer. However for some reason I am not so keen on some harmonies. Perhaps Bach plannend these to sound like this ? Anton Nel left a very positive comment and since he is much more qualified than I ever will be it should be fine I

[@simonplanting5948]

Ipad is conquering even the oldest of music… wondering if she uses an bluetooth generated foot pedal to go to the next page…

[@Organic_Organist]

Is that a bad thing?

[@simonplanting5948]

@@Organic_Organist not at all! I use it to play … love it.. back lit and no worries about music is getting blow away, when outside…

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

Description: "Let’s be honest - G-sharp minor is annoying. The five sharps of the key continually tie your fingers in knots." Shouldn't keys with in-between numbers of sharps and flats be the most annoying? At least in G sharp minor, you are mostly on the accidentals keys. (I have heard of a few other people saying the same thing about playing on the piano.)

[@migueldeulofeu6653]

E major has the easiest scale of all the keys, and four sharps isn't a very in-between number... or is it?

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

@@migueldeulofeu6653 I wouldn't have thought of E major as being easiest of the scales on the keyboard, but it is just 1 off from 5 sharps, so shouldn't be as hard as A major or E flat major.

[@Rudi_F_Vienna]

I need a transcription to G minor then I could MAYBE play it...

[@Vitali_Osandor]

Play it in the original, it's very fun.

[@ExpressStaveNotation]

Apart from the accidentals, you could. Also play along with this YT since it 's pitch matches G minor very closely.

[@lyolevrich]

very funny the “original” Bach with Harpsichord & the barock iPad….

[@PDXLibertarian]

she's not masked. How DARE she?

[@ChuffingNorah]

iPad or cheap Chinese clone? How thoroughly modern for an Old Master! 🙄🤔🤣😂

[@DanielSilva-gc4xz]

What's your point?

[@DanielSilva-gc4xz]

@@MateuszRutkowski1 by the second half it seems that they are criticizing them for using technology in a historically accurate performance. Just seems like it tho. Not sure.

[@ChuffingNorah]

@@MateuszRutkowski1 Err...Sorry. That is completely fallacious. The iPad was developed by Apple in the good ole U.S. of A. All the electronic development, the overall design by a Brit, and all the coding. It may be made in China, but that is for purely Capitalist financial reasons!

[@ChuffingNorah]

@@DanielSilva-gc4xz Not criticising, only merely highlighting the apparent incongruence of using a 21st Centiry iPad with music written for the 18th Century on a Harpsichord probably dating from the same period. But if it does the job, then who am I to complain? 🙄😎👍

[@DanielSilva-gc4xz]

@@ChuffingNorah well..... See it that way: instead of attending a concert like in the old days, you're watching it in a 21th century device.

[@RobertoGonzalez-jz7ym]

Que bella música emite el clavicordio, y la maestra que lo toca es sencillamente extraordinaria, la admiro.