Bach Prelude and Fugue No.10 (staccato) Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1 with Harmonic Pedal

[@dangelobenjamin]

Paul i just want to say how thankful i am for your work. your presences on social media, well on youtube, is immensely helpful to my independent studies of music. I'm in two-year college for vocal performance currently but as it is only a two year program i won't be getting too deep in my studies for some time. having access to your performances of the WTC alongside the score and with visual representation is a gift that is beyond appreciation.

[@albionisland929]

What an eclectic prelude and fugue. The WTC never ceases to surprise me.

[@adriatorras8077]

*J.S. Bach* The best composer of all time.

[@Philobach]

vous aimez beaucoup Bach ? koi dans Bach ?

[@PianoThad]

One of my favorites. I had never heard it played like that, though. Like hearing it for the fist time again. Thank you very much for sharing this. A very big hug from Brasil :)

[@dancalmusic]

The mix between staccato and tenuto on 1st and 5th beat is beautiful. It recalls me a couple of baroque dancers which are moving their feet forward on 1st and 5th beat and resting during the other beats. Really very much intense. Genial.

[@hassansoliman970]

Honestly now Mr Barton, no one plays Bach better than you, thank you for this.

[@gabrielkinzel3389]

absolutely love the way it ends

[@erfanshekarriz4707]

I was waiting for this beautiful prelude and fugue I am soon doing for my exam! How wonderfully played, you are truly an inspiration.

[@Murilo9519]

Really beautiful!

[@aleksandrmukhorlyan1967]

The composition is like Glenn Gould! Beautiful)

[@TheOpus480]

That's what i thought.

[@ernestohernandez6654]

Hermoso!! Mis respetos y admiración para éste gran músico! Le doy like a todos sus videos! Felicidades!

[@DirkdeZwijger]

Incredible key for the WTC1

[@FerranLopezCarrasquerPianist]

Beautifully played, Paul!

[@Singlehand_Music]

Perfection 😍

[@aniaficner6724]

Przepięknie !!!! Moje gratulacje.

[@gustavosilvacm8932]

Great! Please keep up the excellent work!

[@dimitriskritas3423]

bravo!

[@laflamezz1907]

is this heaven ?

[@johannsebastianbach3411]

Or a fantasy?

[@johannsebastianbach3411]

Oh, wait. It wasn't like that.

[@johannsebastianbach3411]

I'm sorry I messed up...

[@jackmarentette1302]

Johann Sebastian Bach shut the fuck up.

[@Sporayles]

@@jackmarentette1302 what the fuck is wrong with you

[@luciaguidi1775]

Please barton plays bach prelude et figura book 2

[@notomeradini8201]

Do you memorize all of these pieces while recording or do you sight read?

[@MarcusHK1]

I prefer by far your staccato version, which I find sharper, to your legato version. Yet the legato version has many more likes. Maybe just a matter of taste.

[@Fanchen]

Interesting, I played this several years ago. I played left hand as legato however. Is there a reason why you chose for it to be detached?

[@Fanchen]

Aside from demonstrating the slurs you intended of course.

[@Fanchen]

I see, so he was faithful to the period. Glenn Gould did not bother making notes as detached as this recording. When I played this piece for the music festival, adjudicators did not criticize my legato playing. It's beautiful how the baroque period enables various acceptable interpretations.

[@Fanchen]

I noticed he uploaded a legato rendition. They are equally unique.

[@jak_19]

Fancy seeing you here

[@samuelsaarikivi3694]

I like the legato one more :)

[@tondann]

Just looking at your hands I realised that I have to loosen my hands even more, I am way to stiff when playing

[@brandoncarter360]

Nice

[@bitti1975]

I'm confused. I remember I read somewhere Bach never used octave parallels, yet right they are at measure 19, 20 and 38 of the Fugue.

[@albionisland929]

In cases like this they aren't two voices that are parallel, but instead one of the voices had dropped out and the remaining voice is doubled at the octave (just to make it sound more full and big). It's not super common, but definitely not rare for it to happen for a measure or two in baroque music (particularly in keyboard music; in fact the most common place to find it is in a keyboard work for two voices). That well-known musette in D major in Bach's Little Notebook is a good example I can think of off the top of my head.

[@r.m.konstantinos9916]

2:42

[@ieuandavies9380]

I think you are a fantastic pianist and I would like to hear you play Rachmaninoff's moments musicaux.

[@GermanoDC]

Amazing! Please send me the sheet music for this song in PDF to my email.

[@communismwithgiggles2515]

There's a link for sheet music in the video description

Insanely fast tempo on the fugue, but superbly played, nevertheless!

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[@alainthiry3965]

this music is great but needs more soul.

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[@JOZZYmusic]