J.S. Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier Book I - Fugue No. 12 in Fm, BWV 857 (Synthesized)

[@grahamcaldecott]

One of my favourite fugues done beautifully. These patches delineate the parts brilliantly.

[@OrzoMondo]

I think this is a fugue that every pianist reveres :) I think I was 14 when I first came in contact with it.

[@grahamcaldecott]

@@OrzoMondo Yes, it's very popular and I played it very badly at about the same age. With this one in my mind I remember telling my harmony teacher that only Beethoven could write good fugues! His eyes rolled over....LOL

[@GhaithMu]

the generated photo was a catch! Lol it's 2 AM and i was laughing so hard when it was suggested. Bach is good on every instrument!

[@OrzoMondo]

I should have added a caption: "October 1705: Bach in Arnstadt about to leave for his trip to Lübeck to visit Dietrich Buxtehude"

[@GhaithMu]

@@OrzoMondo Hilarious, keep 'em going 😂. Great music again, could you custom make the tempo up and down for next ones so they feel more human played. 👏😊

[@OrzoMondo]

@@GhaithMu Most times I do, in particular with concertos, in this case, (a part from the slow-down at 2:42), I decided to keep the tempo up :)

[@GhaithMu]

@@OrzoMondo Great job, everyone has a taste. I was watching Leonard Bernstein interview lately where he said that preludes are supposed to be played very slow to get the full potential and feeling. I enjoy more slow performances too. I have Omnisphere plugin to make synth sounds like yours but i'm curious what do you use for your videos often :)

[@OrzoMondo]

@@GhaithMu I only use a handful of synths: Surge XT, TAL Noisemaker, Model E and Viking. That's it. I also rarely use presets, I program a lot.

[@caesare1968]

OrzoMondo raises up Bach's music to the Heavens, Beautiful, tante grazie to il Magnifico

[@OrzoMondo]

So grateful for all these positive comments, thank you!

[@JcFiscus42]

That was exceptional. The clarity achieved in combination with the feeling of quality sound and dynamics, was superb. Well done, please continue what you do for a long time :)

[@OrzoMondo]

Thank you so much for your encouraging words!

[@Baroquenoise]

Very nice!!!

[@OrzoMondo]

Thank you!

[@bombfog1]

Beautiful as always. Gratias.

[@OrzoMondo]

Thank you!

[@piano.player]

Great job! I know this fugue very well, because I studied it a lot of time. One of the best fugues of the entire WTC, very difficult to execute, very difficult to interpret. Your personal taste is spicy and contemporarily elegant: the first note of the theme that sometime came from far away, the final electro - psychedelic fireworks, are touches of graces of a profound bachian disciple Bravo!

[@OrzoMondo]

Thank you so much!

[@dennislovinfosse6293]

Well done, sir! each line has weight and good separation and equity, even though, in Bach, the bass line is "more equal" than the other voices. I think that your choices for tone color really work well here because they, like the voices themselves, have gravitas. And that somehow gives forward drive to the whole. I think this is a winner.

[@OrzoMondo]

Thank you! I find that in particular with the WTC, because we're all used to play the pieces on the piano, unpacking them like this brings out the individual lines that one has always "heard" but not really ""heard.

[@francescoschiro4210]

Il lavoro che stai facendo è fantastico.Bravissimo

[@OrzoMondo]

Grazie! Ci sono migliaia di opere da affrontare, la scelta non mi manca :)

[@rs8197-dms]

Wow. Gould wanted to become the Steinway. It's like you are becoming the synth.

[@OrzoMondo]

Such a nice comment, thank you!

[@97mesut]

I call this fugue the "fugue on the worst theme". Good fugue tho I also like the Start Wars battle at the end

[@OrzoMondo]

Yeah, the Star Wars is just a reminder we're not in the 18th century anymore :)

[@sonicspring6448]

I'm sorry to say this, but the octave doubling on the bass and some of the upper parts completely stuffs it up. Wrecks the harmonic power to make it an objectionable porridge of sound. I'm all for experimenting but this one didn't work.

[@OrzoMondo]

No reason to be sorry. It's so rare to have negative feedback, and it's the feedback I value the most. Some of the pieces that I make encounter a lot of praise from the audience, some don't. Then there's the other side: there are some pieces that I am very proud of, because I think I got the right angle, while for others, I published them because I needed to end the struggle to find this perfect angle, even though I am not fully satisfied. You would think that there is some sort of correlation between the pieces that I like the most and the ones that have most success with the listeners. There isn't. All this to say that it's a bit of a gamble, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and it's extremely difficult to predict how a certain piece is received and liked. So your feedback is important.

[@sonicspring6448]

@@OrzoMondo Great, well said. I like your spirit.