Angela Hewitt: Bach - Prelude & Fugue No. 18 in G-sharp minor BWV 887 | WTC Book II

[@ViRrOorR]

This prelude sounds so fresh and contemporary

[@user-fu7zf4ck9z]

This and the F minor prelude from Book 2 are the most Mozart-inspiring pieces Bach wrote

[@Frendchtoastwithmaplesyrup]

​@@user-fu7zf4ck9z bach was dead when mozart was alive

[@user-fu7zf4ck9z]

@@Frendchtoastwithmaplesyrup the galant style was already popular during bach‘s time, just take a look at his sons‘ music. Mozart was heavily inspired by the bach sons and particularly Book 2 of the WTC because of the more galant style writing in some of the preludes

[@ИгорьИгорь-с3ю]

All WTC is contemporary. Timeless - it is more accurate.

[@bruhmomenthdr7575]

@@Frendchtoastwithmaplesyrup inspiring, not inspired

[@calmunson5022]

Atonal brilliance. The Fugue. J.S. must have been pleased that he could construct so obstruse a piece that only he fully understood it. Admirable. But Ms. Hewitt has no trouble. Hats off !

[@Itemtotem]

She is one of the highest quality performers I've heard.... Wow such incredibly beautiful playing. Angela Hewitt you have hewn it into my heart that you stand next to anyone in tone and clarity and interpretation

[@blondellemarie-jeanne3845]

Oui , cette interprétation est parfaite

[@СюйхуаЮнь]

Fugue start at 4:03

[@bearnemo777]

Fugue start from 4:03

[@muhittincankorkut6094]

I fell in love with the prelude.

[@blondellemarie-jeanne3845]

J ai beaucoup aimé cette interprétation qui met si bien les thèmes en valeur. Son jeu est coloré, et respecte très bien le style de l époque.Sa musique respire, bref c est parfait.

[@Rigpasword]

Why does she make it look so easy and sound so lyrical? The work of a master performer-artist here captured for all of us to appreciate the profound beauty and complexity of Bach's WTC.

[@man0sticks]

The fugue reminds me of Capt. Jack Aubrey describing a piece for violin by Bach that he discovered in a pantry in London. “It is strange stuff, fugues and suites of the last age, crabbed and knotted sometimes and not at all in the modern taste, but I do assure you, Stephen, there is meat in it. …the argument goes so deep, so close and deep, that I scarcely follow it yet, let alone make it sing.” Angela makes it sing.

[@edenladin]

Beautiful and unique version

[@andrearodigari4840]

I love you Angela! The best performance in years!!!!

[@Itemtotem]

She has that call and answer ingrained into the piano Marvelous

[@gavrinmahaffey3656]

Love the tempi chosen and the balance between the hands

[@calmunson5022]

Spledid playing as always! One can get lost thoughn as to what key, where you've been, where you are going etc. Imagine two old guys having an erudite conversation that jumps from one topic to another with very little connection but then funninly enough winds up on the same topic. That is this piece

[@peteacher52]

Good analogy but it assumes that the two old gentlemen converse through a few different topics, returning to the original, in full cognizance and under control of the process. Such was the wizardry and genius of J S Bach. Ignoramidae think Bach just took a few tunes and stitched them together in a sewing-machine rhythm.

[@denisbaker9090]

The birth of jazz music.?

[@Itemtotem]

Her playing is magical. She has taken space in my heart (Multiple comments to generate activity)

[@leonkowalenko1747]

Sublime, as she is always

[@EduardMennodeBoer]

4:03 start of fugue

[@mariacasemyr]

Wonderful 🙏

[@curtkennedy6050]

Lovely!

[@Itemtotem]

Excellent

[@calmunson5022]

The Fugue is so dense with clever key changes - in every other measure no less - that it seems likely that Bach would have taken the time to draw out the ideas and not hurry through them. Or as Joplin might have said: “Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play fugues fast,”

[@calmunson5022]

Fugue starts at the 4 minute mark. The fugue is beautiful yet shifts strangely from one key to another thru the entire piece. How different from the earlier WTC 1.

[@ricardoromeromartinez8656]

👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@telephilia]

She plays this fugue faster than Shiff or Richter.

[@laboiteafilms1]

And?

[@BrucknerMotet]

@@laboiteafilms1 A-List name dropping always draws attention. IMHO there must be 100s of relatively renown pianists, if just within their regional locality, who have played this fugue faster than the Schiffs or Richters of this wonderfully Pale Blue Dot.

[@Joey_Keys]

I like this tempo. It’s in 6/8, so it should sound like a gigue, in my opinion.

[@user-fu7zf4ck9z]

@@Joey_KeysFriedrich Gulda plays it as fast as a Gigue, but I don’t think it works that well here. I feel like it should be of a similar tempo to the E Major prelude from Book 1, a Pastorale that is. Considering the next piece in Book 2 is literally the Pastorale in A Major it could mean that they are to be played in a similar tempo. The only true gigue fugue in the WTC is C#-Minor Book 2 in my opinion

[@flemmingranch8777]

Dejlig og smuk musik spillet flot af den pelsklædte kvinde....

[@Solfonny]

This fugue is beyond my understanding. I can't ascribe a mood to it, it's something unnameable. Bach certainly requires (and rewards) repeated listening.

[@user-fu7zf4ck9z]

It‘s the second fugue subject starting at 05:28 that does it for me.