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Bach prelude and fugue e flat minor11/16/2023 Incidentally, it produced one of the more extensive and ambitious additions to the collection. This key is rarely heard in the Baroque, but in view of the structure of Bach’s project, it had to be included, of course. From the remaining parts of the first book of Das Wohltemperirte Clavier, he chose to play the Prelude and fugue in the unusual key of E-flat minor. Once again a final statement of the subject in the pedals gives the piece a satisfying sense of completeness.Organist and harpsichordist Bart Jacobs lives in the idyllic countryside to the south of Antwerp. As with the ‘Little’ Fugue in G minor, the fugal working out is not particularly rigorous after the exposition, but there is a greater feeling of unity to the episodic material. There is considerable doubt as to how many of the great preludes and fugues, including many in The Well-tempered Clavier, were actually conceived as pairs, but there can be no doubting the feeling of unity between these two pieces given by the taking over of the upbeat quaver figure of the prelude by the fugue subject itself. But here there is a greater intensity and concentration to the rhetorical gestures, and the grinding off-beat chords of the second half of the prelude have a power not found in Bach’s models. The most succinct is the ‘Little’ Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV533, which has the characteristic manual flourishes, pedal solos and homophonic passages making much use of suspensions and other dissonances found in the works of Buxtehude and Lübeck. There is a substantial group of works which demonstrates different approaches to the North German Präludium.
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