Bach COMPLETE BOOK 1 - Preludes and Fugues WTC with Harmonic Pedal (dur: 2 hrs)

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Please see timecode links posted below to individual Preludes and Fugues.
In this recording I used the 4th harmonic pedal in resonance position only. The harmonic pedal was invented by Denis de La Rochefordière.
This video is dedicated to friend and composer Paul Rice. Listen and play Paul’s music with links to free scores in the video info: • Paul Rice - Piano Works
For Content ID review: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier was composed in 1722 and is a work in the public domain. The video and audio recording was made entirely by myself in my home on a FEURICH 218 concert 1 grand piano fitted with the 4th harmonic pedal. This piano’s unique serial number is F10339 seen on the iron frame.
Download “Bach - Well Tempered Clavier” public domain sheet music from the IMSLP Music Library: goo.gl/8JXFdr
My Patreon link for those that kindly wish to support this channel:
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Timecode:
Spoken introduction for Content ID reviews: 00:00:09
P1 00:01:16
F1 00:03:18
P2 00:05:30
F2 00:07:06
P3 00:08:47
F3 00:10:00
P4 00:12:15
F4 00:16:00
P5 00:21:06
F5 00:22:11
P6 00:23:58
F6 00:25:20
P7 00:27:34
F7 00:31:33
P8 00:33:09
F8 00:37:11
P9 00:42:45
F9 00:44:28
P10 00:45:33
F10 00:48:14
P11 00:49:16
F11 00:50:19
P12 00:51:46
F12 00:54:53
P13 00:59:43
F13 01:01:14
P14 01:03:28
F14 01:04:30
P15 01:08:21
F15 01:09:10
P16 01:11:41
F16 01:13:41
P17 01:15:48
F17 01:17:06
P18 01:19:25
F18 01:21:29
P19 01:24:09
F19 01:25:19
P20 01:27:34
F20 01:28:40
P21 01:33:14
F21 01:34:37
P22 01:36:22
F22 01:39:48
P23 01:43:19
F23 01:44:27
P24 01:46:42
F24 01:51:57

[@leyniaLip]

You are so brilliant, Mr. Barton. Thank you for sharing your music--volumes of it.

[@S314159265358979]

There is something so much deeper in Bach music than just music. I don't know anything about music, but it feels that listening 10 minutes to Bach is like reading an entire book. Each time a new wonderful book. Thank you!

[@soleaguirre100]

Yes for me Bach is special!

[@johninman7545]

Heaven and Earth meet in Bach the brook of mystery

[@johninman7545]

He us truly the delight of human ♥ hearts as well as Elephants

[@thomasdastillung4097]

I have no words. Having the score and the hands really makes me grasp the beauty of those pieces but above all your immense dexterity and talent...

[@derekarsenault1046]

amazing the 16 thumbs down prove some people hate everything. pure genius this was

[@judil3294]

I have always found it totally mesmerizing to watch a good pianists fingers. Thank you for this.

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All your work and talent is mindblowing! Thanks for making the world a better place.

[@DByers-ci5kr]

My old grandmother used to put on records of Viennese waltzes on Sunday morning. It was so pleasant in her house between her record player & her enormous radio which sat on the floor in the dining room. Always music. She hatched a love of music in me that has lasted these 60 years. When I found an album in my middle school library of Bach played on an electronic synthesizer, I was smitten. I drove my poor parents crazy listening over & over to this & similar recordings. But my father, a confirmed lover of Brahms & Gustav Mahler, was not about to interfere with my development of musical taste. To this day, Bach is still my favorite & I hear him wherever I go. His style & melodies are in so many other genres, it is amazing. Thank you Mr Barton, you've brightened my Sunday morning.

[@Melchiorblade7]

A monumental achievement. Congrats!

[@PaulBartonPiano]

Thank you, appreciate it.

[@magdagera9163]

Love you, Mr. Paul Barton.

[@andrewwiemken6443]

You have the most relaxed, efficient, beautiful technique. A joy to watch. Thanks for your work on the videos.

[@bikkies]

Great comment. Relaxation and efficiency are directly related. The more relaxed you are then the more efficiently you will play, and vice versa. If you play Bach with your body all tensed up then you'll just end up sore, tired and angry, probably also performing far too heavily. I feel Bach should be more of a workout for the mind than the body.

[@angelinagorushkin9991]

Bravo , Paul !!!!!

[@soleaguirre100]

Bravooooo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱

[@davjuli1]

Thank you so much for your generosity, enjoying immensely , your interpretation of this beautiful music is so dynamic and intelligent... Brilliant!!

[@dannyhallmusicpublishing8271]

Thank you, Mr Barton

[@thanareto]

You are an amazing pianist and an amazing person! Thank you, Paul! 💕🎹👏

[@stevenewel3563]

Bravo! Excellent interpretation.

[@amayotato]

It is incredible to me that after all the years you've put into this channel and the many months you've put into this single video (and the content ID disclaimer!) that you STILL get content ID matched, let alone having 9 claims on one video! I hope you can successfully dispute all of the claims on all of your videos. Best of luck!

[@eydiguttason1961]

Genious Paul

[@brumn7402]

Thank you very much for your great performance. I feel the beauty of the universe when I listen to Bach's WTC.

[@UBIRAJARAFAVILLI]

Obrigado. Parabéns - Brasil - São Paulo

[@Bolalebi]

The purpose of his Preludes and Fugues is for future composers to learn the melodies of songs in every scale, major and minor, and these seem random as their titles are mainly Prelude and Fugue, and that helped them out. Through his work, Bach is the Grandfather of Music. Major and minor scales can be demonstrated by writing a pair of note series in ascending order, at their closest vertical gaps. The top series is the major and the bottom is the minor.

[@healingmusiclab.]

Bach is love A great performance perfect

[@machiwoomiapoo]

Wow! I have always loved listening to Bach! Thanks for giving this wonderful gift to the world. :) Your playing is amazing. Take care, Sam.

[@phrababushkath2350]

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[@davideguiguren2770]

You are an incredible pianist!!!

[@tec4ever72]

I suggest you to give a look to his paintings as well. Paul Barton in an unbelievable artist. Not to talk about him playing piano for the blind elephant. He's so inspiring.

[@gillescoustou4273]

Merci beaucoup Paul. Je suis très content de trouver ça. 😜🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🤣🤣🤣🎹

[@Wacoal34d]

Marvellous performance. Thank you!

[@HarrisHanAndersen]

Tremendous achievement! Wonderful job, Paul.

[@johninman7545]

Bach the great mystic

[@jorgedardon5487]

thanks so much for putting the sheet music too! now we can all learn

[@fernandom9979]

Great recording! One of my favorites classical works.

[@theshoebooty]

Thank you! I love them all but 21 is my favorite.

[@johannsebastianbach3986]

Wonderful version of the WTC, bravo!

[@mattmcfarland671]

so often to perform this magnitude of music can be about the performer, the pure, monumental task - like an olympic athlete, but this puts the perspective, not as the observer, observing the performer, but as the observer perceiving how to play - with notation and the ceiling perspective. Very, Very nice.

[@DMAC12053]

I play this over and over again. Thank you. :)

[@nguyenhaison9712]

Oh your fingers moving so smooth! Thank you.

[@damianzeni2023]

Excelentes interpretaciones!!!!! Bravo infinito!!!!!

[@davideantoniorizzo1394]

Grazie. Bravissimo :-)

[@discoghost6168]

very beautiful, thank you.

[@happykim4826]

진짜 감동입니다. 제가 좋아하는 바흐 음악을 이렇게 완벽하게 치시다니!! 보자마자 구독했습니다. ^.^

[@bobjenks8714]

Fantastic

[@PaulBartonPiano]

Thank you, Bob.

[@JBeats1493]

thanks Paul!, prelude 2 is the best

[@luciouribe]

Buen día Sr. Barton. Mi nombre es Lucio. Me gusta mucho como interpeta en el piano. Le felicito y mi completa admiración. Yo me dedico a dar clases de Filosofía. Me recibí como Lic. en Filosofía y Teología. A la edad de 9 años comencé con mis primeras clases de piano y siempre me apasionó el piano, más me dediqué al estudio de estas dos ciencias. El piano lo dejé como una un estudio particular, y a pesar de que tengo errores en mis interpretaciones, en momentos las interpreto bien, luego me equivoco, sigo adelante estudiando piezas fáciles y las publico en mi canal de KZbin. Le admiro y me seguiré deleitando. Gracias por compartir su arte. Gracias. Lucio

[@bikkies]

Very nice interpretation of the c major prelude. Played with pace and, unlike some renditions, not over-sentimalised. This is a harder prelude than some think, maintaining rhythm and observing the correct note durations.

[@glenncormican9434]

You’re brilliant.

[@mattmcfarland671]

This guy is hitting it.

[@JAOrtizCompositor]

1:46:43 *Realmente disfruto mucho este preludio; especialmente la interpretación.*

[@florianeichenberger7354]

Wow, astounding! I should play more Bach, it's so good to improve technique.

[@bikkies]

I agree very strongly. The 48 make a great study aid. I'd also recommend checking out Bach's 2-part inventions and sinfonias, which are good for training contrapuntal play and, particularly on piano, keeping each voice in balance. No voice is more important than any other, so if one hand is too heavy (as my left tends to be) then these works will quickly show you that.

[@Zephyrus47]

My plan is starting with Anna Mag. Bach's book, then the short preludes, then inventions and sinfonias, and finally the WTC.

[@TheMightyFork_]

How haven’t you won some major piano competitions? You’re so good .. with your abilities it’s really a celebration

[@missmullinmusic]

Thank you for this impressive achievement! You obviously had some serious piano training at some part in your life!

[@ArielleSingingSirene]

B R A VO 👏👏👏👏👏

[@FireliqhtzItsBecauseITry]

Absolutely stunning performances, thank you very much for uploading this. I would also like to ask a question, what would you say are your favorite preludes and fugues?

[@FabiolaDetariFabs]

You made that look easy! wow

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[@lohwpr]

wow

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LOVE TO THE ELEPHANTS

[@JackMiller89]

A really wonderful performance -- thank you for sharing with the world. I'm sorry that ContentID / the overzealous algorithmic copyright police have obviously been on at you - it really doesn't work with classical music and YT is really rather bad about it all! Thank you again for a wonderful and huge work!

[@marvinx9335]

🎹🎹🎹

[@leol6850]

Hi, Paul! I've copy-pasted the track timecode here because android's KZbin app doesn't show it as hypertext (don't know if other apps do). --- Spoken introduction for Content ID reviews: 00:00:09 P1 00:01:16 F1 00:03:18 P2 00:05:30 F2 00:07:06 P3 00:08:47 F3 00:10:00 P4 00:12:15 F4 00:16:00 P5 00:21:06 F5 00:22:11 P6 00:23:58 F6 00:25:20 P7 00:27:34 F7 00:31:33 P8 00:33:09 F8 00:37:11 P9 00:42:45 F9 00:44:28 P10 00:45:33 F10 00:48:14 P11 00:49:16 F11 00:50:19 P12 00:51:46 F12 00:54:53 P13 00:59:43 F13 01:01:14 P14 01:03:28 F14 01:04:30 P15 01:08:21 F15 01:09:10 P16 01:11:41 F16 01:13:41 P17 01:15:48 F17 01:17:06 P18 01:19:25 F18 01:21:29 P19 01:24:09 F19 01:25:19 P20 01:27:34 F20 01:28:40 P21 01:33:14 F21 01:34:37 P22 01:36:22 F22 01:39:48 P23 01:43:19 F23 01:44:27 P24 01:46:42 F24 01:51:57 Thank you for all your videos...!

[@0Keyboard0Eric1]

Are you planning to play the WTC Book II eventually?. Also great performance!

[@PaulBartonPiano]

I ran through book 2 yesterday evening. Got reminded of the P&F I practiced back in my 20s and sightread the others. Yes, I feel like recording book 2 as well.

[@thakill100]

Paul Barton That’s so awesome. I can’t wait!

[@PaulBartonPiano]

Salt and pepper - thank you.

[@DiegoSilva-fz1nw]

You remind me Mario Bros, great video!

[@luxcraft4171]

Holy fuck this guys a fking genius

[@czeynerpianistproducercomp7155]

Please upload Op.365 complete from Carl Czerny.

[@caseysheehan8437]

Paul Barton, I was wondering if you have consider doing videos of the 24 Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues after the 2 Well Tempered Klavier Books? Just and idea. As always, I appreciate all the work and dedication you put into your videos and artwork! (: #keepmovingforward Thanks, Your Fan

[@miguelfontesmeira]

I support that request 200%

[@ShawnBrandon888]

What theoretically is the difference between a Prelude vs Fugue? I notice more counterpoint in Fugues. The Master of music Bach

[@kthwkr]

I like to open two youtubes at once. I use this one as the soundtrack to Thomas Johnson Antique Furniture Restoration or to Fine Art Conservation - The Retouching Process; long version.

[@BrentAlanBennett]

Paul, Please sell mp3s - especially of Bach, Debussy, and Satie on the Feurich Piano

[@fernandoserico77]

WoW, like andras schiff

[@felixccaa]

Thx for this recording. Do you use pedals while playing? I couldn't figure out what your legs do.

[@whoisthispianist01]

I noticed you use different fingerings to those on the score. Did you learn this using a different edition? Terrific work by the way. What a great achievement.

[@nukepcr]

There are no original fingerings by Bach. So different editions may have different fingerings - or no fingerings. Henle Verlag are among the very best in terms of provided fingerings.

[@benjaminhundley2783]

Your technique is flawless, I'll hand that to you as generously as cornflakes for breakfast! :D

[@lucasmm3llo]

[@user-do9uq2wp3c]

красавчик

[@TedMason]

Man thats too much work but well done !

[@TheSupercruise1]

What up Paul😃 could you please make a tutorial of Beethoven‘s Piano Sonata No.17 „Tempest“ (3rd mvt) ? That would be so awesome. Thx Chris

[@pelyhkonst]

Hi, Paul! Can you tell, which mics you use?

[@idr3am61]

Could u play the Chopin nocturne in d flat major please (Op. 27)? Its such a beautiful piece

[@nickbamber268]

Was your Feuerich built in Vienna or is it from the Hailun factory?

[@letsjazz17]

Can u make a QnA session?

[@davideluciano6119]

I miss the theme of the fugue in the a flat major one, bar 10

[@TheMadisonHang]

how are you suppose to learn all of these?

[@adventuresofanamateurastro804]

It's a shame that a person who dose such great work as yourself has to be bothered with such ignorant bureaucratic nonsense when there are far worse things going on in this world that there time and efforts could be utilised on other than on someone who is only trying to bring joy to others. I hope they feel good with themselves

[@JoaoVictor-mr9tl]

Master Paul, please, plays La Campanella, from the king Liszt!

[@adonisadmirer2752]

And that happens to be one of them. Because not only is it a good musical piece, it is also a great PIANO piece.

[@christiancortes4400]

What are the easiest preludes? Not really ready for fugues yet.

[@thakill100]

Obviously the c maj one but also the f sharp maj one and the e major one

[@PaulBartonPiano]

I’d say, in WTC book 1, Preludes 1, 4, 8, 9, 12, 16, 22, 23 and 24 are relatively less difficult than the others in terms of finding and playing notes. In terms of musical difficulty, all the P&F are equally difficult. The easiest Prelude to play that sounds difficult is 21. While I'm here - I found Fugues 9, 10, 15 and 19 to be the most difficult (in terms of playing notes) and Fugues 20 and 24 the hardest to memorize.

[@christiancortes4400]

Paul Barton thank you for the feedback, I'm excited to get started.

[@l3p3]

Love it as always, great work. However, I would like if you pronounced the german "ch" properly, it is not k but ... well: "ch" ;-) Affects Bach and Feurich. Thanks a lot anyway!

[@pianopug7593]

First

[@PaulBartonPiano]

appreciated!

[@francescalemany2863]

Your favorite prelude? 😋