JS Bach Prelude & Fugue in d-minor BWV 851

[@joshuawebb2036]

Your contributions to Wikipedia are absolutely outstanding!

[@BarMusProd]

Outstanding yet again Rick! The modulations in the fugue! Unbelievable!

[@danbluedeer]

I love that prelude! very well played - the fugue is also remarkable with its little surprises

[@STUMAHA]

I always got lost in all the notes in this prelude and prelude 5. 😂 I just gave up, but both fugues were always my favorites. This transcription has less embellishments than the Schirmer's version than I'm used to.

[@richardsiegelclavecin]

More and more one has to use better (more recent?) editions, and be wary of those too. Compare several versions before deciding which notes to use, which ornaments, etc.

[@thedigitalharpsichordist1541]

Excellent, as always, Richard! Questions: Could you tell us more about your harpsichord: model, its maker, and such info? Also: What recording device do you use to make your recordings?

[@richardsiegelclavecin]

With pleasure. The harpsichord is a copy of the Goujon at the Paris Conservatory Museum, with a wonderful keyboard by Blanchet. 1756 I think? It was made for me by Jean-François Chaudeurge, in 1988; at the time he was a partner at "Les Temperaments Inegaux" in Paris, and is still building but is living in Colombia. As for the recordings : I use a Zoom H2N. Having made lots of recordings, I know how to set it up, just close enough to the bass end to get a good sound. Then I use "Audacity" to edit the takes, hoping that there isn't much to do.

[@thedigitalharpsichordist1541]

@@richardsiegelclavecin Wow, that IS interesting. Curiously, I wrote to an Italian man about a year or so ago, since his recording of him playing a harpsichord work sounded so good, and he, too, said he used A Zoom. AND..I myself own a Zoom, though I have yet to get the chance to "sample" a harpsichord with mine. (I would REALLY like to do so, but finding a good harpsichord to sample here in Japan, and an owner who would let one come to his/her house to sample it, would be VERY difficult). I did sample the Blanchet I owned in 2009, just before leaving Spain to move to Japan, but did not yet have the Zoom, so the samples did not turn out as well as they could have Have you ever considered sampling your instrument? I would be most happy to do the work of cutting/preparing the samples, note by note, and would also "map" them all, if you were to sample the notes, and send me the large files (each containing series of notes). I would then send you the completed files, that you yourself could use on a digital instrument, or simply store them away for some future time, or even sell. Please consider this opportunity to "immortalize" the wonderful sounds of your Goujon... it would be a most fascinating collaboration, I believe! (Oh: my email is dbolton99b AT yahoo.es )