{"id":564,"date":"2011-08-21T10:17:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T14:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2011-08-23T09:07:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T13:07:42","slug":"day-twenty-five-the-well-tempered-clavier-book-i-cd-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Day Twenty Five: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (CD 2-2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bach<\/a>Although this is fine music, well played by Leon Berben<\/a>, I’m just not diggin’ it. Don’t get me wrong. It’s clever music. I like the Fuga pieces from each composition as they twist and turn and tie knots around the theme. However, overall, I prefer the Preludes & Fugues on the first CD of The Well-Tempered Clavier.<\/p>\n

One composition on today’s CD that immediately caught my attention (that I’d love to hear Glenn Gould<\/a> play) is Prelude & Fugue No. 15 in G major, movement one (“Praeludium”). That piece is a veritable rocket ship, immediately blasting off in a flurry of notes and never looking back.<\/p>\n

Another fun composition is Prelude & Fugue No. 21 in B flat major, the first movement (“Praeludium”). Its melody is familiar, like some musician in the 1950s, 60s or 70s picked it up and used it in his song. <\/p>\n

If I had to say which of the two pieces from each Prelude & Fugue that I most enjoyed, I’d say 90% of the time it’s the Praeludium. Those tend to be more briskly played. For some reason, when a harpsichord plays lots of trills and a zillion notes I can handle it. But when a harpsichord plays a mid-tempo piece it sounds like a dirge to me. It grates on my nerves.<\/p>\n

But, as I wrote yesterday, what do I know?<\/p>\n

All I know is The Well-Tempered Clavier<\/a> is exceptional music that transcends (especially when played on the piano) its time. It will be music people will listen to for as long as there are people to listen.<\/p>\n

These are the compositions on today’s CD:
\nBWV 846-870 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I)
\nPublished in 1722 when Bach was 37 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although this is fine music, well played by Leon Berben, I’m just not diggin’ it. Don’t get me wrong. It’s clever music. I like the Fuga pieces from each composition as they twist and turn and tie knots around the theme. However, overall, I prefer the Preludes & Fugues on the first CD of The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[250,295,294,296,291,24,297,301,300,290],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}