An opening note

Klila · Newbie Alert Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 1

Hello.

I "re-found" this lovely forum, after searching for Bach groups...
I'm currently listening to Bach's perfect BWV 548, Fugue.
(yes, while writing this message!).
I believe that this amazingly-well-organized work, is one of the greatest musical ideas Bach had had. The beautiful, rich dialogue between the high tone and the low tone, the complexity and charm of the fugue's motive are a charm to me.
3:21~ - is where bach takes the idea, a minor motive, into a new top;
4:00~ and further - I imagine a long, endless ladder, on which one can climb. It is simply fantastic!

So far, I found no original musical ideas as such, which I can compare to this majestic piece of work.

Mostly recomended - the minutes I listed above.

Enjoy!

Other impressions? Do share.

Hydrogen · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:36 pm Post subject:

As someone who enjoys the music, much as I would like to be able to play it, my comments may be limited, but I have been enjoying it since the early 1960s when I bought a Fernando Germani recording.

I feel the fugue grows very much out of the dark and haunting cry that announces the preceding prelude.

The free-flowing sounds tumbling from the right hand after the first section are a wonderful foil to the powerful hard driven subject with which the fugue begins. It must give you great pleasure to play it.

I've just listened to the Hans *Great Dancer* recording that came with the 160 CD Bach Edition which is my greatest treasure. Also a fine reading.

My first post on these forums. Bach is the great inspiration of my life. I've been listening to him daily for many hours since I first heard Helmut Walcha play the E flat Prelude and Fugue in 1956 when I was 16 and my mind in the Maths class was much more taken up with the music than with the Maths lesson. I spent the next 17 years trying to track down the recording until one day in 1973 there was Archiv 13037 in a music shop together with the stupendous Fantasy in G. My efforts as a teenager to obtain that recording included an attempt to persuade the Australian Broadcasting Commission to sell me its copy. I was not successful!

I had discovered the organ at the age of five when my parents took me to a church that had one and I marvelled at the beautiful powerful sound. We belonged to a denomination here in Melbourne whose churches tended to have harmoniums rather than the real thing and to my child ears the organ sound was quite addictive. Later I was to discover that what I experienced as exciting and thrilling was experienced by others as mournful and dirgy. Very hard to comprehend that.

For some reason the name of the organist has been rendered as "Great Dancer" which is not what I typed.