Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Musicalischer Parnassus Prelude suite Clio Piano Steingraeber B192

[@lluisrafalessole-classical5068]

Fantastic Played 🎶🎹

[@Pleyel204]

Many Thanks

[@blogleftbanker]

I just discovered this composer and this piece today, like finding a hidden treasure.

[@Pleyel204]

Thank you very much. I am glad you like it. Actually I also discovered this composer quite recently. His Chaconne that I recorded earlier is great also.

[@clancycalwyn8557]

Pretty good and awesome

[@Pleyel204]

Thank you for your kind comment

[@phuongquynhanh3861]

great

[@Pleyel204]

thank you

[@radnoll]

Thank you for this charming piano interpretation. There are already some good harpsichord and also partly organ recordings of Fischer's "Musikalischer Parnassus" suites (e.g. the already older but wonderful harpsichord version of the suites Euterpe and Uranie by William Christie), but only few interpretations with piano. So it's nice to see you helping to fill that interpretive gap in your YT channel. PS: I think that your YT recordings are a bit too quietly. A little more volume would be nice and could then be reduced by the audience, if desired, from each person individually.

[@radnoll]

PPS: Here is a link to the above mentioned older but very beautiful harpsichord recording by William Christie, which in my opinion is still unsurpassed in its elegance and depth of feeling: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJKsiY2kecZ6odk

[@Pleyel204]

Thank you for your very kind comment. There are indeed many wonderful pieces in these suites. Thank you for the link. It is really a great interpretation. Concerning the level of the recording, actually I do not perform any post processing of my recordings. What you hear is a direct, single shot, recording. The recording level has been adjusted so that when playing fortissimo it is only few dB below saturation. The full dynamic of the piano is therefore reproduced and is not compressed like in most modern recordings including classical recordings. An excess of dynamic compression is something I do not like at all and gives, I think, a completely unrealistic rendering of the music. In the same idea my recordings' left / right panning (done by the mics placement) is done from the listener point of view and not from the pianist point of view (treble in the right and bass in the left). Panning the music from the pianist point of view gives also , I think a very unrealistic rendering. I struggled ( still do ) quite a lot to obtain a result I like (lately changing from XY to NOS) but my recording configuration becomes more and more consistent. Actually there is much more to say about recordings set up, it is a very interesting topic, but this is already a long answer. Cheers. Christian.

[@BeatPOWERvomPowerhof]

Looks like Bach copied from Fischer with his Prelude No1 in C Major ;)

[@Pleyel204]

Yes you 're right. Actually at that time period it was quite usual for composers to copy transform rewrite etc... other composer's works. I read somewhere that Bach did know Fischer's works and did like them.